niddah generates a different sense of self for a woman in relation to her husband, a feeling of self-autonomy, of being her own person, of having a kind of control that is free of the need to manipulate and to control others.

Its routine can be understood as a vehicle, an outer shell, that can be filled randomly with the emotions of real prayer. When the heart is ready to open, it will not first have to invent the route—or the routine.

In it, you should discuss those things that are closest to your heart, as well as what you have learned about the eternal values of life. Try to think of what would make you proud of your children as mature adults and as members of the Jewish community.

Modern Orthodoxy includes many things. But in 1982, it also includes gi-clad mezuzah kissers.

While I am appreciative of industrial society and am abundantly and irreversibly indebted to feminism, I cannot help but feel that the emphasis away from childbearing has gone too far.

chametz is the leavened product that results when any of these five grains come into contact with water for more than a minimum of eighteen minutes. Thus, all breads, pastas, cakes, cookies, and dry cereals are considered pure chametz.

Thus, Jewish prayer is daily prayer, three times a day minimum, recited at fixed times; also blessings for all occasions, shared community experiences, an awareness continually inserting itself into our everyday lives without waiting for our initiative. That is Jewish prayer.

Kashrut is not simply a set of rules about permitted and forbidden foods; kashrut is a way of life. As with any life-style we adopt, we know we are successful at it when it becomes second nature to us.

There’s a whole slew of Shabbos games, mostly mental ones, since one cannot write on Shabbat.