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Culture As Sewage

I am writing regarding Rabbi Avi Shafran’s Opinion piece, “Measured Insularity Does Not A Monk Make” (May 11), which refuted the Opinion piece of Rabbi Eugene Korn on an element of haredi Judaism (“In The Name Of Judaism, Haredim Have Turned Inward,” April 13). Rabbi Shafran explained that haredi Judaism tries to avoid “the effluence […]

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Roman Shmulenson, Creating a community of disparate émigrés.

Roman Shmulenson, 34 Part of a Ukrainian-Jewish family that came to the U.S. in 1993, Roman Shmulenson made his first meaningful contact with the Jewish community while studying at a Brooklyn high school the next year. A social worker from the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services who met with émigré teens arranged a […]

Alicia Jo Rabins, Art-rocking the women of the Bible.

Alicia Jo Rabins, 34 Twitter: @ohaliciajo, @girlsintrouble www.girlsintroublemusic.com Growing up, Alicia Jo Rabins never gave much thought to Jewish tradition. She was raised secular, in a mostly non-Jewish section of Baltimore. “It was not a huge part of my life,” she said of Judaism in her youth. Her passion was for poetry, and as a […]

Yehuda Kurtzer, Elevating the conversation.

Could A Haredi Draft Help Israel’s Economy?

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Palestinian Intentions

Michelle Sarna, Empowering Orthodox women.

Avram Mlotek, Going back to the future.

Jason Guberman-Pfeffer, Illuminating Mizrachi history

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