Feminism and Orthodoxy
What It's All About
By Susan Handelman
The innovations and increase in Torah study of recent generations connects to and is emphasized more in relation to women...
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Jewish Grandchildren
Beyond the usual platitudes, why is the family so important in Judaism?
By Susan Handelman
My aim here is not to engage directly in arguments about the Torah's view of homosexuality, or feminism, or the problems of singles in the Jewish community. Rather, these questions have raised for me a deeper, underlying question: Beyond the usual ...
Society & Living » Issues » Jewish Grandchildren
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Putting Women in the Picture
The Rebbe's Views on Women Today
By Susan Handelman
A personal account of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's attitude towards Feminism
Women » Spirituality & the Feminine » Celebrating Jewish Womanhood » Putting Women in the Picture
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Reflections on Leave-Taking
By Susan Handelman
We really should not have to die at all, despite Adam's sin. And G-d, so to speak, is sensitive to this. It "embarrasses" Him...
Spirituality » Essays » Reflections on Leave-Taking
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A Man Apart
By Susan Handelman
He made of each Chasid a "rebbe," made each Chasid feel that responsibility and love for every Jew, made each Jew sense her or his own greatness and holiness.
The Rebbe » Life » First Person » A Man Apart
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Fortysomething
By Susan Handelman
Something about turning forty makes it different from all other birthdays. What is so significant about this number that makes us approach it with such ambivelent feelings?
Spirituality » Essays » Fortysomething
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Belief in Moshiach
A conversation between Susan Handelman and Manis Friedman
"Moshiach does not want to overwhelm us, because if he were going to overwhelm us, he could have come 100 years ago"
Spirituality » Essays » Belief in Moshiach
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On the Essence of Ritual Impurity
By Susan Handelman
We cannot logically understand the Divine laws of Niddah and Family Purity, but we can try to understand them spiritually
Women » Acts of Transformation » Mikvah » On the Essence of Ritual Impurity
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Dr. Susan Handelman is a professor of English at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. A native of Chicago, she is the author of two books on Jewish thought and a translator of the Rebbe's book "On the Essence of Chassidus."