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Andy Blumenthal

Jul 1, 2018, 3:20 PM

Naked before G-d

Praying, fasting and mourning the Temple's destruction on the Ninth of Av, Tisha B'Av. (Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)

At the Western Wall, where we bare our souls before our Maker, Marisa Papen instead displayed haughty flesh

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 28, 2018, 12:39 PM

Posing naked in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem

I understand the happiness of making a living through one's craziness, so the delight of exhibitionists who are able to shock, get publicity and make lots of money from exposing themselves. The question is, however, can society tolerate this. There...

Jun 26, 2018, 12:01 AM

The day a 'hand vagina' made this bride blush

Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)

Or how an Orthodox rebbetzin made this secular Israeli bride blush

Elana Bekerman Frank

Jun 20, 2018, 12:11 AM

The other half: Male infertility

The Jewish Fertility Foundation helps provide funding for fertility treatments and emotional support to individuals and couples experiencing infertility. Some ways we offer support are through support groups led by licensed infertility therapists, the Fertility Buddies peer-to-peer mentorship program...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 15, 2018, 12:42 PM

Is sexual excitement not proof that one needs sex?

I don't think that I'm going to say much news here except for the comparison I'll make between sex and eating, which might be helpful. Just imagine someone claims: If one feels sexual, one should have sex. The feeling isn't...

Jun 13, 2018, 8:32 AM

As a rule, people work using their hands. Many also employ legs. Some find they need to put their bodies into it. All of the above is fine. Those who use their genitals to perform paid work are deemed...

Jun 10, 2018, 12:49 AM

Pride on Parade

250,000 young men and women closed the major streets and by-ways of Tel-Aviv for their annual demonstration of pride. What kind of pride? For the marchers, pride of being gay. I have no personal objection or dislike of gay individuals....

Jun 5, 2018, 10:33 PM

Same-Sex Marriages? What Would Moses Say?

The news is not shocking anymore. At least not to 21st century educated minds. The haredim and the ultra-Orthodox, however, are cut from different cloth. The gay marriage of the Orthodox grandson of the late Chief Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef to...

Dana Janine Diamond

May 27, 2018, 8:07 PM

Saluting the Brave

You can count on me to be a voice of good cheer on this holiday weekend. More school children were gunned down in America than US soldiers were killed in battle last year. Black men are 13 times as likely to...

Herbert J. Cohen

May 17, 2018, 3:18 PM

Kosher Movies: Splendor in the Grass

I saw Splendor in the Grass in 1961 when I was 19 years old. I was in college taking a course in English Literature and we had just read Wordsworth’s “Ode to Intimations of Immortality” focusing on the classic...

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