Orthodox Judaism

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 . . .

Does a moral life equal good fortune? Do things always go right for you if you're a "religious" person?

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

Has the Torah become outdated that we must now modernize it?

If there is something I do that’s strange, or something you read about in the news that you don’t quite understand, just ask me.

Here's a confession. Torah observant Jews have questions. They can have crisis of faith, moments of feeling isolated and abandoned by G d.

Moses had to contend with both sides: inducing the Israelites to do teshuvah and G-d to exercise forgiveness.

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!

A feminist asks: if Judaism stresses a woman's role as a mother, what is a woman’s purpose if she cannot physically have children?