Separation
Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Schumer, and More Read Immigrant Mom’s Child Separation Story
30 celebrities lend their voices to immigrant moms in the heart-stopping clip
So Many Ways To Segregate Women in Synagogue
Where are you for the High Holidays? Orthodox men pray in the main sanctuary at synagogue. A new exhibit depicts how different it is for women.
Amid Jewish Settler Complaints, Israel Sets Separate Busses for West Bank Palestinians
An Israeli bus company will offer special bus lines to transport Palestinian passengers from the West Bank into central Israel.
But Did Their Congregants Stay Awake?
Pulpit Freedom Sunday was, its organizers proclaimed, a success. At more than 1,500 churches around the country — mostly, it seemed from small communities outside the big cities — preachers defied the Internal Revenue Service this past Sunday and preached politics from the pulpit.
On Shavuot, Women Asked To Walk a Longer Kotel Route
I am the first to admit that there are many people out there with greater and deeper Jewish knowledge than I. Nonetheless, one thing I am pretty sure of is that women and men stood together at Sinai, and that wives walked side-by-side with their husbands as they made pilgrimage to Jerusalem to celebrate Shavuot during Temple times.
The Modern Orthodox Case for Gender Segregation on Public Buses
The practice of gender segregation on public buses in Israel has received new and unexpected support from American Modern Orthodoxy. The Rabbinical Council of America journal Tradition recently published an article by Rabbi Dr. Yehuda “Ronnie” Warburg entitled “The Practice of Gender Separation on Buses in the Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel: A View from the Liberal Cathedral” that justifies gender segregation in the name of multiculturalism.