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Orthodox and Single: The Community Needs to Try Harder

Orthodox and Single: The Community Needs to Try Harder

Let’s talk about what it’s like to be single in the Jewish Modern Orthodox Community. In just a few months I’ll turn 30 years old. That means I have been dating nearly 10 years, aiming to find the right person to marry. Not being able to find the right person when you want to get married and have a family is difficult in any culture, but it’s particularly difficult in the Jewish community, because we place such a strong emphasis on having a family. It’s such a focus, that man

A Lesson in Assumptions, From My Kitchen

A Lesson in Assumptions, From My Kitchen

My grandparents were Nazi hunters. Well, at least we thought they were. My grandfather “found escaped Nazi’s” all over the world on his vacations with my grandmother. He specifically had suspicions about the piano player at the hotel in Aruba. My grandmother’s Nazi hunting intuition would kick in at a particular accent, a lilt in the way a person’s tone would shift when they found out she was a Jew- she trusted her sensitive gut. It was very important for my survivor grandpar

Self Care in a Toxic Time

Self Care in a Toxic Time

If you are like me, your news feeds are overflowing with negativity. Images of angry people with torches, white sheets and hate filled signs. Long, rage lined threads of people arguing, accusing each other of the worst things and name calling. Nightmare geopolitical scenarios predicted on the news. Sometimes it feels like we can’t escape the insanity of the time we are living in. Where politics turn everyone upside down, inside out and twisted. Where hatred of all kinds, is o

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