Each time we hear of yet another heart-wrenching and infuriating agunah story, we tend to point an accusing finger at the Jewish legal system that has created these circumstances, in which spiteful, angry husbands can cynically abuse the divorce laws to extort and torment their wives.
Last week, I was honored to moderate a panel discussion on “Tomorrow Started Yesterday: How Soon is Too Soon?” regarding planning ahead for a teen or young adult with special needs.
I am not the right person to preach on electronic servitude, given my tons of incoming mail and messages and a touch of OCD.
The long history of Jewish-Arab animosity is a hard thing to change, but that didn’t stop ballroom dance champion and choreographer Pierre Dulaine from trying, literally, one step at a time.
Larraine and Clive Segil don’t have to go far to get fresh eggs.
Israel launched a military spy satellite on Wednesday, four years after sending a similar space vehicle into orbit.
You really don’t want to go to a show where the artist is just mailing it in — unless the artist is Shirley Familian. Her first solo show, “19,275 Stamps” — her count of the number of stamps it took to create the works now on display at the Craft and Folk Art Museum — not only bears the marks of being mailed in, but consequently, canceled as well.
The Obama administration is sticking with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process for now despite a crisis that has threatened to scuttle talks.
Israel is “deeply disappointed” that Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to lay primary blame on Israel for the crisis in the U.S.-brokered Middle East peace talks, an unnamed Israeli official said.
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