Category Archives: Orthodoxy

Some Orthodox Jews Getting Religious Marriages But Not Civil Ones

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Luke Ford

I got a call Saturday night from an Orthodox couple on the East coast. The man had been married before. He was paying a lot of alimony to his ex-wife. She remarried in an Orthodox ceremony but they skipped the … Continue reading →

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Keep Onions Out Of Shul

Posted on November 17, 2007 by Luke Ford

I was sitting in shul this morning, alternately davening and reading the sacred words of Chaim Potok, when a bloke sits down to me, puts on his tallit and then, during the reading of the Torah, unfurls a copy of … Continue reading →

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Anorexia And The Orthodox Seminary Girl

Posted on November 16, 2007 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes: Last week my eldest daughter called me from Israel, where she is studying for a year in seminary, crying and terribly distraught. A girl she was friendly with from another seminary had died of anorexia. She … Continue reading →

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Liberty, Restored

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Yitzhok Adlerstein writes: Last week’s New York Times coverage of haredi economic muscle ended on a rather sour note. Both the print story and the accompanying video clip offered the story of a young man who capitalized on his … Continue reading →

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Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for Soul By Nachum Shifren

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Luke Ford

You don’t have to be religious (most of its contents are secular) to enjoy this book about one of Pico-Robertson’s greatest characters. Rabbi Yonasson Gershom writes on Amazon.com: Not since "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" have two more … Continue reading →

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