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The Shtetl Jew: Relic or Role Model?
By Aron Moss
If Tevye's Judaism is anything to go by, don't you think it's time for an updated version?
Ideas & Beliefs » Questions & Answers » Jewish Identity » The Shtetl Jew: Relic or Role Model?
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Are Women Second Class Citizens in Traditional Judaism?
By Chana Weisberg
How can you honestly claim that Orthodox Judaism has any respect for women, with all the religious manipulation on the part of men that keeps them content as second class citizens within a third world mentality?
Ideas & Beliefs » Questions & Answers » Men & Women » Are Women Second Class Citizens in Traditional Judaism?
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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...
Women » Spirituality & the Feminine » Celebrating Jewish Womanhood » Feminism and Orthodoxy
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Call Me Classic
By Matt Lipeles
It's got to be one of the toughest marketing problems of all time: selling Orthodox Judaism. You've got all this long black stuff... And then there are the hats
Society & Living » Voices » On Being Jewish » Call Me Classic
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Cult or Religion?
By Aron Moss
I have nothing against religion, but could it be that religious Judaism is a cult? I bumped into an old classmate who has become totally religious. After speaking to her, I felt that she is brainwashed
Ideas & Beliefs » Questions & Answers » Ethics & Religion » Cult or Religion?
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Why Do Observant Jews Have Such a Tranquil life?
By Aron Moss
I'm not sure what exposure you have had to observant Jews, but judging by your question, it seems to have been from a distance...
Ideas & Beliefs » Questions & Answers » Ethics & Religion » Why Do Observant Jews Have Such a Tranquil life?
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The Good Life
By Yossy Goldman
Does a moral life equal good fortune? Do things always go right for you if you're a "religious" person?
Parshah » Devarim - Deuteronomy » Re'eh » Parshah Columnists » Weekly Sermonette » The Good Life
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The Manna Eaters
By Yanki Tauber
Life is mostly waste. Take food, for example: we spend many hours earning the money, shopping, cooking, eating, and then most of it passes right through our bodies and into the city's sewer system
Spirituality » Short Insights » By Yanki Tauber » The Manna Eaters
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Women in the Synagogue
An Answer to the Controversy
By Tzvi Freeman
The issue is even more baffling than you think. Most of the guidelines for prayer, we learned from a lady named Chana who lived about 3000 years ago. Yet all the dominant roles in communal prayer are given to men!
Women » Spirituality & the Feminine » Celebrating Jewish Womanhood » Women in the Synagogue
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Unorthodox Judaism
By Tzvi Freeman
I like Shabbat. I like Torah, especially the Kabbalah stuff and Chassidic stories. I feel a strong attachment to the Jewish people. But I'm a non-conformist at heart -- I just can't see myself following all those regulations
Ideas & Beliefs » Questions & Answers » Jewish Identity » Unorthodox Judaism
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