Robyn Frisch
By Robyn Frisch
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Opinion Grieving the Mount Meron disaster, I connected deeply with Haredi moms for the first time
Most American Jews have likely “moved on” from thinking about the tragedy at Mount Meron on Lag B’Omer three weeks ago. But that’s not the case for those of us whose family members went to celebrate and instead ended up witnessing a tragedy beyond what anyone could have ever imagined. A couple of days after…
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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 Benji will probably be a haredi rabbi. A few months ago, when everyone I know was obsessed with the Netflix series “Unorthodox,” a lot of them got curious about Benji’s life. Everyone wanted to know: Is Benji Satmar? (No,…
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