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Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Off the Record
What brought Rav Yisrael Salanter to secularized Paris in his last years?
Dovi Safier and Yehuda Geberer
Off the Record
Everyone has their favorite songs, but have you ever wondered about the people who actually create their own music — the singers, composers, producers, lyricists?
Rochel Burstyn
Connections
When my older daughter contributes to my conversations with my younger children, I wonder — is it her place to do so?
Sarah Chana Radcliffe
Connections
How can I get my nephew to stop hurting my son?
Sarah Chana Radcliffe
On Our Own Terms
Pitzuchei Mashiach is a snacker’s paradise and so much more
Sarah Faygie Berkowitz
On Our Own Terms
A 1974 New York Times article touted the Lakewood area as the “most famous winter resort in the east
Sarah Faygie Berkowitz
The Insider
Is housing discrimination a hate crime?
David G. Greenfield
The Insider
Each time we were outraged, each time nothing happened
David G. Greenfield
Calligraphy: Pesach 5785
The walk to the entrance is long, long, long, one aisle that’s five times the size of the entire prison commissary
Rochel Samet
Calligraphy: Pesach 5785
Meir repressed a groan. Why didn’t girls know that guys didn’t take mussar seder seriously?
Esther Kurtz
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How can an observant and learned Jew, who dons tefillin every day and maintains Shabbos and kashrus, behave this way?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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What, then, is the real meaning of baruch?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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One can respect the intelligence of Israeli secularists without agreeing with their anti-religious views

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Here we have Exhibit A of the ultimate self-absorption, the depths of selfishness

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In all the furor, no one mentions that according to classic Jewish law, one becomes a Jew either by having a Jewish mother or by undergoing a proper conversion to Judaism.

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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The following reply from the distilleries to the Kiddush clubs has been leaked to this magazine

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman