Articles

“But We Are Guilty for Our Daughters”: Lessons Learned from the History of Jewish Girls’ Education in Germany and Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth Century

In his search for pshat and the most reasonable explanation the author presents Tanakh unvarnished, and in so doing challenges the reader to think deeply, appreciate nuance, and continue to seek the “keys to encountering God in his Palace”.

Violence Is Not Grounds for Divorce

Mediation, Jewish Marriage, Jewish Divorce, and Agunah

“It’s All Relative: The Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Family in America”

by Chaim I. Waxman

            I am a convert. There can be no question that I am halakhically Jewish, at least if you trust the Lubavitchers to know halakha. I am writing to protest the downright shameful treatment of converts by the Orthodox community, which so conveniently forgets the explicit commandment to not oppress the ger.

In his Yad haHazakah, Rambam writes: