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U.S. Demand For Opioid Care Has Outgrown Resources, Say Israeli Researchers
Deaths from opioid overdoses in the United States have nearly doubled over the past seven years, a ground-breaking study by researchers in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel, Harvard Medical School and University of Chicago found. And the health care system won’t be able to handle the rise in cases for much longer….
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WATCH: Orthodox Girl Studies For Her Bat Mitzvah — And Breaks Powerlifting Records
Naomi Kutin, a Modern Orthodox Jewish girl from Fairlawn, New Jersey, has been breaking powerlifting world records since 2012. And now the movie telling her story is going to be released online on September 28. Inspired by Naomi Zeveloff’s 2012 profile of Kutin in the Forward, filmmaker Jessie Auritt turned her lens on this extraordinary…
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Learning To Chant The Torah Has Changed My Life As An Observant Woman
It was a Thursday evening in the winter, and the sun was sinking as I waited at a bus stop in Givat Shaul, practicing to chant my Torah reading from photocopied sheets of paper. Moses was late in coming down the mountain, and the bus was late in coming to our part of Jerusalem, so…
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Why I Won’t Stop Using The Term ‘Goy’
There’s been a lot of talk about the term “Goy” in the news with its crass use by HuffPo following the sinister appropriation of the Hebrew term by anti-Semitic groups. Some have suggested that we stop using it either because it’s offensive or because its use will “empower white supremacists.” Well both of those arguments…
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Actually, Modesty Is About Empowerment, Not Oppression
As a writer, I usually abstain from getting involved in popular articles criticizing social trends… and politics. The latter because, well, I just don’t have that thick of a skin, and the former because normally it’s a waste of time. But after reading Michelle Honig’s aggrandizing article , and then Emily Schneider’s response “Modesty isn’t…
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Open Orthodoxy’s Name Game Doesn’t Make It Any More Orthodox
I never did like the name “Open Orthodoxy”. It doesn’t take a Talmudic genius to see its not-so-subtle insinuation, that the rest of the Orthodox world is somehow…“closed.” Closed, though, to what? To beliefs at variance with those of the Judaism of the ages? Well, yes, that’s the definition of Orthodoxy. Closed to innovations rejected…
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Seriously, Orthodox Women: It’s Time To Shed The Shell — Here’s How
On Tuesday, I wrote a piece about how Orthodox women should stop wearing shells. It did not go over well with many Orthodox readers. But I stand by what I wrote. It needed to be said. You don’t have to listen to me or care about my opinion. And you have every right to continue…
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Modesty Isn’t About Shells. It’s About Patriarchy.
Upon reading Michelle Honig’s article “Why This Orthodox Layering Trend Has to Stop”, I felt more worked up than I might have expected about a fashion item, albeit an extremely popular one laden with meaning. In her article, Ms. Honig attacks the “Kiki Riki” brand shell, a ubiquitous clothing trend used to ensure modesty for…
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The Original ‘Antifa’ Was A Jewish Anti-Nazi Militia
While watching the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia – the violence that erupted between marching neo-Nazis and Antifa protesters – I can’t help but think back to what was the original “Antifa”, a group of Jews, whom my father told me about from his childhood, growing up as a poor Jewish kid in Newark, New…
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This Hasidic Picture Book Teaches Children About Sexual Abuse
If you walk into Monsey’s Evergreen kosher supermarket, somewhere among the extensive schnitzel varieties and Shabbos candy treats, you’ll see a single children’s book for sale. Zai Gezunt! is the Yiddish translation of Artscroll’s Let’s Stay Safe, written by Bracha Goetz and illustrated by Tova Leff, a picture book that talks about children’s safety of…
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What Killed One of Israel’s Highest Flying Hi-Tech Start-Ups?
When Better Place’s charismatic CEO Shai Agassi gave his viral TED talk in 2009, describing how his company’s innovative electric car technology could help stop climate change and free nations from the yoke of oil dependence, investors and business leaders worldwide took notice. Countries from Japan to Denmark to Australia signed on, and the privately-held…
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