Chanukah Tears
(Originally posted here on the Times of Israel). Chanukah. A time of miracles. A time for family to be together. I have always loved Chanukah. As a child growing up in Cardiff, and then London,…
Judaism
I need a Rosh Hashanah Re-do
I am not big on organized prayer. I like to think that I have a constant running dialog (ok, monologue) with God. I am always talking to him. I thank him for what I have,…
Divorce Vigilantes
At the time of my Get – religious divorce – all I could think of was how hard and emotionally draining it was. I blogged about it here. What I didn’t realize till a little…
Who Will Live and Who Will Die
I have said often that I am not one for formalized prayer. I prefer to speak to God when I am ready to speak to Him, and to speak to Him using my own words…
Scroll Up
(This first appeared on the Times of Israel in April 2013) I have been called a pseudo-feminist. I like to talk the talk, but don’t really walk the walk. I fulfill the traditional female role…
JewWannaTalk – a new forum for Jewish discussion
New Website Alert!! JewWannaTalk was established so that there could be a safe environment where positive discussion about all aspects of Judaism within a diverse group of people could happen. There are many sites out…
The Purpose of Hair Covering – To Cover The Hair, or To Be Aware?
I had a moment today where I got all panicked that I had left the house without covering my hair. I was sitting in the library and all of a sudden had the need to…
Rabbis Need to Be Careful When Dispensing Advice
I am sure my long time readers remember the immigration hell I went through after I married the KoD. Things were really bad at the time, and we were getting no answers from the immigration…
From the Mailbag: Hair Covering
Received this morning from a reader: Hi HaDassah – I have been pondering this issue for a long while, and wanted to hear your thoughts and those of your readers. I have…
Blood Segregation
This is not what I consider Judaism. I consider this fundamentalism. Read the article: Rabbi bans Orthodox Jewish men from receiving blood donated by women, non Orthodox Jews, non Jews Do you care where your…
Mikvah and the Single Girl
I regularly get emails from all kinds of people asking me all kinds of questions. This one just popped into my FB mailbox. Hey HSM, Can you ask your people a question: What’s the deal…
Pretending to go to the Mikvah
To take a side step from my review of Unorthodox for a moment, in her book Feldman mentions that toward the end of her marriage she would pretend to go the mikvah, instead of actually…
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