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What does Modern Orthodoxy look like across the pond over in London? How would the Torah uMadda Journal or Orthodox Forum sound outside of the original American context? One can get a sense from reading the new book by Rabbi Dr. Michael J Harris Faith...

To recover from the trauma of a long campaign season, gather a few friends and study. I’m a groupie. Not the kind who stalks rock stars but the kind who, when intensely interested in an issue, feels compelled either to join a group or to start one....

July`10 In Jewish History 48 BCE : In his war with Pompey, Julius Caesar barely avoids defeat at the Battle of Dyrrhachium.  A month later, after regrouping his forces, Caesar defeated Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus.  While neither of the...

One afternoon, we received a call from a bubbie, a Holocaust survivor referred to us by UJA. She was concerned that her 20-something lesbian granddaughter was not socializing with other gay Jews and was disconnected from Jewish life and the community...

From time to time I receive comments from Institute members about new “humrot” (stringencies) which are being introduced at their synagogues. In one case, the congregation engaged a new rabbi who promptly raised the mehitza, forbade women’s hakafot on...