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This past year, I took a group of seven teens on a tour of the American South. The trip was inspired by my desire to infuse young people with a sense of history and context as it relates to Judaism in the South and Jews in the Civil Rights Movement. We began in Atlanta, then drove to Alabama, stopping in ...

Dear Heshy: Can One Actually be Frum if They Live Out of Town?

Dear Heshy, I know that you live out of town and consider yourself frum, so I hope that you and your out of town readers don’t take this the wrong way, but I always felt that those folks who moved out of town were sacrificing on their yiddishkeit for a higher quality of life in the secular sense. To put ...

Celebrating My Right to Vote: Women’s Equality Day

With Women’s Equality Day just around the corner, voting has been on my mind. And, I’ll admit it, voting isn’t usually on my mind—especially during August. But Women’s Equality Day, which celebrates women’s right to vote, has me thinking about voting. I’m a pretty civic-minded person—fast to roll my eyes at people who tell me they don’t see the point ...

Brave girl agrees to post her shidduch resume on Frum Satire

I put the call out on Facebook for anyone who wishes to post their real/fake/funny or otherwise serious shidduch profile on my site can do so. I have heard several people tell me that they would like a guy/girl who has a good sense of humor or likes this site (I was one time honored when my friend told me ...

Blame It on the Bossa Nova: Remembering Eydie Gorme

Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme—never Eydie and Steve. But theirs was a relationship where she never took a back seat. I am old enough to remember the duet’s appearances on every conceivable variety show in the 1960s and 70s. (By the way, whatever happened to the concept of a variety show?) The Hollywood Palace, the Ed Sullivan Show, their own Emmy-winning ...

Announcing the Rising Voices Fellowship for Teens

Prozdor and the Jewish Women’s Archive are thrilled to announce the pilot year of our Rising Voices Fellowship! The fellowship is open to female-identified teens in grades 11 and 12 who have a passion for writing, a demonstrated concern for current events, a commitment to improving their writing skills, and a strong interest in Judaism—particularly as it relates to issues of gender and equality. These ...

Am I Really Being Honored

I got an email from the shul last night, informing me that I was to be honored with gelilah for the second Torah on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Being the cynical conspiracy theorist that I am, I immediately called Harav Eliyahu Fink to ask whether this required me to sit through long periods of time. I honestly feared ...

A Plea For Consistency

You had to rub your eyes in disbelief when you read the words. There, on the cover of Mishpacha, a banner used a phrase straight from the Nancy Pelosi playbook. “Caught at the Border: Crackdown on American Citizenship Tears Families Apart.” Was Mishpacha pushing for liberalizing immigration law in response to the impact they have on families? The article linked ...

50 Years On: 5 Things I Learned About the March on Washington

As a kid I read everything there was to read about the Civil Rights Movement—from the Freedom Rides, to sit-ins, to Freedom Summer. I wrote my biggest high school term paper about the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, and the closest thing to a history class I took in college was called simply, “The Sixties.” But it wasn’t until ...