Author - arielle

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Jdate? Let me count the ways

Last week, I had an enlightening discussion with some colleagues about dating – and it was inevitable that we ended up talking about Jdate. While I do know a handful of people who married...

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Against My Better Judgement

I have this friend; I’ve mentioned her before. When I first wrote about the  Agunah Crisis, she wasn’t an official agunah. Just someone starting the divorce process in Israel, struggling...

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Kol Hakavod, Alysa Stanton!

Alysa Stanton will be ordained in June by Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati as the first female African-American Rabbi. Yay! On being the first? She says: “If I were the 50,000th, I’d still...

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but you look Jewish…

I’m re-reading The Modern Jewish Girl’s Guide to Guilt and currently reading the essay by Baz Dreisinger entitled “Spot the Jew” in which she discusses “Jewish”...