Voices: Walking Mom Home By Miriam Millhauser Castle We were talking in such a matter-of-fact way about something so enormous. My mother was dying...
Women on the Parshah: Being Kosher By Nechoma Greisman In a sense, we are also animals. But there are two "signs" that can make us kosher, and even holy...
Voices: Kaddish at Fenway By Nechemia Schusterman During the second inning a fellow walks over to where the four of us were sitting and asks if we'd join a minyan...
Issues: Avoid the Happiness Cops By Dr. Miriam Adahan I'm all for happiness, but to be fully human is to acknowledge and express the full range of emotions which G‑d gave us
The birds and many of the land animals forbidden by the Torah are predators, while the permitted animals are not. We are commanded not to eat those animals possessive of a cruel nature, so that we should not absorb these qualities into ourselves
