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Relationship advice: Marry young

I know the arguments that people give for delaying marriage: “I’m not ready.” “I need to be financially secure first.” “Right now, I’m preoccupied with ____” (fill in the blank).

Drug abuse debate: Legalization, medication or therapy?

On a wall at Beit T\’Shuvah\’s sanctuary there are plaques with the names of those connected with Beit T\’Shuvah who have passed away. One of those names is that of Josh Lowenthal, a former resident who died on June 11, 1995

Gunter Grass Admits to SS Past

Grass, 78, whose autobiography is due out this fall, told the Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung in an interview published last Friday that he was drafted into the Waffen SS in the final months of World War II.

Modern Orthodoxy’s Marriage Crisis

Hard-to-marry-off children have been worrying parents since Genesis, when Leah, her eyes tender from the sadness of being unwanted, took part in a hoax to trick Jacob — her younger, prettier sister\’s suitor — into marrying her.

No Religious Bias in Racy ‘Bodice Rippers’

While there are no statistics to prove it, the anecdotal evidence is overwhelming. Typing \”Jewish romance novel\” into Google calls up dozens of bodice rippers featuring Jewish themes or characters, and not all published by small presses.

More Love and Lust From the Bible

\”The Song of Hannah\” as imagined by Etzioni-Halevy, tells the story of two women — Hannah and Peninah, Elkanah\’s other wife — and its chapters alternate between their two voices.

SWF Rabbi

\”What do you do?\” I ask. He\’s in computer programming. Wonderful. Can\’t make too much conversation out of that answer. I try my best. It lasts all of two minutes. And then it happens: he asks the same of me.

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