Rabbi Robyn Frisch is the Director of the Rukin Rabbinic Fellowship for 18Doors as well as the Spiritual Leader of Temple Menorah Keneseth Chai in Northeast Philadelphia. She and her husband, Rabbi Seth Frisch, have three kids and two rescue dogs.
Rabbi Robyn Frisch
By Rabbi Robyn Frisch
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Opinion Please stop calling my Orthodox son’s marriage an ‘arranged marriage’
The community's matchmaking system may be foreign to liberal Jews, but not all such marriages are 'arranged'
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Opinion Grieving the Mount Meron disaster, I connected deeply with Haredi moms for the first time
Too often as Jews we focus on our differences. But even with our differences, we can support, nurture, learn from and care for each other.
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Opinion My son was at the Mount Meron disaster
(JTA) — This article first appeared on Kveller. On Thursday evening, as I was just about to close my computer, I saw the news alert from The New York Times: “Breaking News: At least 15 people are dead and dozens are injured after a stampede at a religious celebration in Israel.” A surge of panic…
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Community Reform, Conservative, Haredi — it’s all in the family
I’m a Reform rabbi, my husband Seth is a Conservative rabbi, and one day our son will probably be a Haredi rabbi.
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