Outside The Bubble
Growing Up Ultra-Orthodox, There Was No Shame In Being Poor
This essay is part of our ongoing series, Outside the Bubble: Class and Inequality in the Jewish Community. It explores the class divides in Jewish communities of all denominations, and the financial struggles belonging to these communities can incur. Please email your thoughts and essays to batya@forward.com.
It’s Time To Dispense With The Vanity Spending In Orthodox Communities
More of us need to recognize that some “necessities” are, well, not.
There’s No Place For The Poor In America’s Jewish Communities
We were two blocks from a synagogue. But we couldn’t attend. We were too poor
This Year, Remember the World’s Poorest Jews
These Jews, many of whom are Holocaust survivors, did what they could to endure a Communist regime that discriminated relentlessly against them.
Is It Way Too Expensive To Become A Jew?
The cost of being an Orthodox Jew is famously prohibitive. For converts, the financial burden of Orthodoxy is sometimes simply too much to bear.
As A Working-class Kid In My Conservative Community, I Knew I Was Different
This essay is part of our ongoing series, Outside the Bubble: Class and Inequality in the Jewish Community. It explores the class divides in Jewish communities of all denominations, and the financial struggles belonging to these communities can incur. Please email your thoughts and essays to batya@forward.com.
The Radical Class Divide In My Modern Orthodox High School
As a baal teshuva first-generation Russian Jewish immigrant transplant, I felt the results of the class hierarchy I had landed in.