It wasn’t your typical college sex scandal. There were no accusations of molestation, inappropriate faculty-student relationships or date rape charges.
I once wrote a novel about an Iranian Jewish woman who grows wings and flies away from her husband’s home.
Parshat Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19)
Were contributions toward the building of the Tabernacle voluntary or compulsory? Those of us who have stood before our communities during a building campaign have always tended to favor the latter option, as this makes for a more effective appeal. But the classical commentaries on the Torah — presumably more objective in their approach to the question — are rather evenly divided on it.
How should Conservative Judaism cope with dwindling membership, growing intermarriage rates and society\’s increasing religious and political polarity, while remaining true to its base in halachah (Jewish law)?
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