The best representation for the ultra-Orthodox: none at all
The new Israeli government is being sworn in without representatives of the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) parties. This is not common, but our experience in Jerusalem teaches us that this might actually be...
View ArticleA heavy threat to our children’s health
World Health Day, which falls this week, is an excellent opportunity to address a topic that troubles us all – our children’s health. Or to be more precise – childhood obesity. In recent years, Israeli...
View ArticleAn Urgent Need to Balance Parent and Children Vacations
We are celebrating Lag BaOmer today, but instead of collecting wood with the kids and preparing potatoes to roast, we are worried about something else: How will we handle the 2-day vacation that has...
View ArticleHow not to draft the ultra-Orthodox
The government’s Peri Committee is offering a solution to the unequal burden of military service that is far from ideal. Why? Because it won’t result in the ultra-Orthodox joining the army, at least...
View ArticleReligious women of the revolution
The announcement of the new Chief Rabbis came as no surprise. Rav David Lau and Rav Itzhak Yosef were elected – the natural outcome of the ongoing struggle for control of the Rabbanut by...
View ArticleThe people on the train
One sunny weekday afternoon in Manhattan my husband and four children and I were traveling on the subway, my husband was sitting with the three girls and I with my 22-month-old baby. It was rush hour,...
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