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Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Year in Review
5780 was probably the toughest year in decades in the US, but it was also a year full of heroes
Yochonon Donn
Year in Review
The pandemic hasn’t so much marked the dawning of a new age as accelerated pre-existing trends
Gedalia Guttentag
By the Letter
Here we have Exhibit A of the ultimate self-absorption, the depths of selfishness     Item: The marriage rate in the US is at an all-time low: 6.5 marriages per 1,000 people. The European rate is even lower. Item: For the first time, the majority of American millennials (56%) are unmarried. Item: In 2020, the
Mindel Kassorla and Mindel Kassorla and Cindy Landesman
By the Letter
Life is a cycle — and a spiral that pushes us higher
Cindy Landesman and Mindel Kassorla
B.A.N.G Gang
"Dobra Baila could definitely splash paint around on a bit of paper. But do you really think anyone’s gonna pay money for the daubings of a kid?"
R. Atkins
B.A.N.G Gang
"I know you: You’re the lads who saved my Tiddles. There’s no way you’re thieves"
R. Atkins
Family Room
Setting a beautiful table can be a spiritual act and a concrete way to welcome Shabbos.
Shoshana Batya Greenwald
Family Room
Tips and techniques to freshen up an older home
Miri Lichtman
Life Lab
Decision making is exhausting. What if I get other people to make them for me?
Esther Kurtz
Life Lab
Could I adopt my husband’s habits for a week — and survive?
Esther Kurtz
More Second Thoughts
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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

Second Thoughts

Calendars can help us count the days, but only we can make the days count

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Is it this the kind of “innovative thinking” that Reform Judaism wishes to transfer to Israel?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Second Thoughts

Our prison is of our own making, and if we really want to escape, we can do so

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

Second Thoughts

The power of chesed to change attitudes

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman