ultra-orthodox judaism

Alden Solovy is the author of Jew­ish Prayers of Hope and Heal­ing , a book of orig­i­nal litur­gy in Hebrew and Eng­lish. In April 2015 he was bru­tal­ly attacked…

Rab­bi Sara Bran­des is the author of Mag­i­cal World: Sto­ries, Reflec­tions, Poems. Invit­ed to weigh in on recent devel­op­ments at the Kotel, the West­ern Wall of Jerusalem’s…

by Elise Coop­erThe Dev­il in Jerusalem is a ter­ri­fy­ing thriller, but even more upset­ting is that this sto­ry was based on a true event. It explores the hor­rif­ic…

In part­ner­ship with Jew­School, JBC sat down with Leah Vin­cent to dis­cuss her recent­ly pub­lished mem­oir, Cut Me Loose: Sin & Sal­va­tion After My Ultra Ortho­dox…

Ear­li­er this week, Leah Vin­cent wrote about leav­ing the ultra-Ortho­dox com­mu­ni­ty and the back­lash that came when she decid­ed to talk about her deci­sion pub­licly. Her…

Leah Vin­cent is a writer and activist. In addi­tion to writ­ing for var­i­ous pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing The Huff­in­g­ton Post and The Jew­ish Dai­ly For­ward, she is an…

Ear­li­er this week, Yuval Elizur exam­ined reli­gious polit­i­cal pow­er in Israel and Jan­u­ary’s elec­tions and Lawrence Malkin dis­cussed the ten­sion between tra­di­tion and…

Ear­li­er this week, Yuval Elizur exam­ined reli­gious polit­i­cal pow­er in Israel and Jan­u­ary’s elec­tions. Today, Lawrence Malkin dis­cuss­es the ten­sion between…

Yuval Elizur and Lawrence Malkin are the co-authors of the new book The War With­in: Israel’s Ultra-Ortho­dox Threat to Democ­ra­cy and the Nation. They will be blog­ging here…