August 2023

As we Turn Toward Elul,
Let’s Find Our Strengths
by Evonne Marzouk

Holidays /

This coming week is the reading of Parshat Shoftim, the first parsha of the month of Elul. It is a month, of course, associated with teshuva (return) in preparation for the upcoming holidays. So it seems fitting that the parsha begins: “Judges and officers shall you appoint for yourselves in all your cities…” (Deut. 16:18) Read

As we Turn Toward Elul,
Let’s Find Our Strengths
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The Agunah Crisis and the Courts:
New Attempt to Solve an Old Problem
By Anna Urowitz-Freudenstein

Jewish Divorce & Agunot /

The complicated details of Jewish divorce are based on only two verses in the Torah (Deut. 24:1-2 – They are in this week’s Torah reading, Parashat Ki Teitzei). Clearly the legal, economic, familial and psychological aspects of divorce are more complicated than the information written in two verses. This is evident to those of us

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New Attempt to Solve an Old Problem
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