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On the Discouragement of Women Wearing Tefillin
Jewish women are exempt from 14 positive time-bound mitzvot…
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What Is Dat Moshe?
The concepts of Dat Moshe and Dat Yehudit are central to the discussion of tzniut and hair covering for Jewish women…
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Can a Woman Wear Tzitzit or a Talit?
What we wear matters. The Torah makes this clear in a number of places, notably giving a great deal of devotion to the garments of the priests in the book of Vayikra…
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Diverging Opinions on Head Covering
The way in which a married woman chooses to cover her hair is not as straightforward as an onlooker may imagine…
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A Woman Spy: Where Halacha and Bravery Meet
In the recent war with Iran, it emerged that a French Jewish journalist turned Israeli spy…
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What Is the Torah’s View on Birth Control?
The first mitzvah in the Torah is given to Adam: pru u’reveu u’maleh et ha’aretz. “Be fruitful and multiply and fill up the land”. From these words our sages derived that there is an obligation to have children, one that is so highly regarded it is called a ‘mitzva rabbah’. Indeed, family and the home
