OpEd

Living in caravans in a small settlement town during my years learning in Israel, my dream was always to settle the land. As a religious Zionist, I feel that living in Israel is a tremendous and miraculous opportunity, and all Jews can and must consider making this life transition as we are all very familiar […]

Reading about New York Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino’s homophobic turn in front of an ultra-Orthodox audience last Sunday, my thoughts drifted back to painful memories of my middle school years. The first time I contemplated suicide was at a charedi middle school in Manhattan. I felt out of place there, and though I didn’t […]