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The 53,000-square-foot Friendship Circle of New Jersey (FCNJ) is unlike anything I’ve seen before

Sivan Rahav-Meir finds common ground wherever she lands

Vasara sucks in her breath. She swivels in her office chair and closes her eyes. Her trip to Riga belongs to another era, relegated to a dusty corner of her brain, the door shut firmly after it

She might always be that weird girl who has fallen from a distant star who doesn’t know half of the endless rules

And there we sat, you and I, for the next six Yom Kippurim — a wonderful “table shidduch”

“I have to be honest with you, dear. It just seems problematic to me that you’d want to take it easy at this age”

The demands on the modern-day religious woman pull her in 30 different directions at all times. We move on to the next task without finishing the first

I researched until I felt like I had an accurate grasp of the studies and concerns. And I came to the conclusion that tackling this topic directly is important — and impossible.