Where’s our solidarity with women?
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I had been preparing to write about Simchat Torah again. About the fact that this time I specifically invited (young) women so that my daughter and I would not be the only ones dancing with the Torah. But all of that was overshadowed. Overshadowed by the terrible events in Israel and it still seems unreal.
“Rockets are flying towards Israel” was the first statement I heard when I arrived …
The Poor Husband
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Recently I have been learning about mourning in Judaism. I knew a little bit, but there are so many aspects and rituals I never heard of or thought about. It’s not a topic people talk about much. It’s scary and most of us don’t want to think about death too much.
Since I started learning about the Shiva, the Shloshim, the burial, I came to the conclusion that we …