Fed Up
Encouraged by my own uneventful ride on a once sex-segregated bus a few months ago, I thought the whole topic was dying down and we were miraculously learning to live and let live. Unfortunately, the story of Tanya […]
Category Archives: Cults
A Modest Proposal
Who or what is convincing apparently non-mentally-ill religious Jewish women to parade around like human laundry baskets? I am referring to the phenomenon of the “Taliban women” recently condemned and lambasted by the Eda Haredit (Badatz) for ironically […]
Time to Extend Israeli Law to Meah Shearim
A woman is caught on tape detaching the feeding tube from her starving three-year old in Hadassah Hospital, after years of bringing the child in with unexplained medical conditions and bodily injuries. She is arrested by authorities for […]
I Am Not Sitting at the Back of the Bus
Published in the Jewish Chronicle on 23 February 2007 In July 2004, after spending too much time sitting behind a computer, I took a walk in downtown Jerusalem. I bought Vanity Fair magazine, and looked forward to reading […]
Rachel’s Story – The Rabbinic Court’s Pathetic Verdict
Friends, I have more news about Rachel S. The Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem has handed down its final decision in her case. Just a reminder, they were ruling on the suggestion of the social worker that she be […]
Rachel’s Story
On Sunday, I went to Israel’s Supreme Court to listen to the wisdom of the highest judges in Israel concerning the case of Rachel S. (there’s a partial gag order, thus the initial), the woman on whom I […]
Egged and the Taliban
I can’t remember the last time I took a bus in Jerusalem. But Monday morning, in the throes of a new exercise regimen, I found myself walking down Strauss Street and, as luck would have it, the number […]
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