Category Archives: Orthodoxy

Eating Disorders Among Orthodox Jews

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Luke Ford

The New York Times reports: In the large and growing Orthodox Jewish communities around New York and elsewhere, rabbinic leaders are sounding an alarm about an unexpected problem: a wave of anorexia and other eating disorders among teenage girls. While … Continue reading →

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Educating Converts To Orthodox Judaism

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Gil Student writes: They have to understand that a community that strives for closeness and closed-ness, a tight-knit society that builds a wall to the secular world (of varying heights, depending on each community), will present obstacles to joining. … Continue reading →

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What Frum Women Want

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Luke Ford

Watch the whole show: The rabbi references my scandalous past.

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How To Spot The Orthodox From Birth

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Luke Ford

We’re talking FFBs (Frum From Birth). Heshy Fried writes about how he spots FFBs in the San Francisco Bay Area: They come into shul late and immediately daven mincha without a siddur or saying ashrei first. They go through a … Continue reading →

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Converting To Orthodox Judaism Is Hard

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Luke Ford

How come a lot of people — maybe most people — don’t find converting to Orthodox Judaism more difficult than getting an AA degree from a community college? I think it depends a lot on a person’s temperament. You can … Continue reading →

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