Josh Hasten: A new 50-page booklet intended to provide male soldiers with guidelines to maintain strict religious principles in a primarily secular and co-educational army sets off (yet another) firestorm with Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, who slammed the publication.
Jonathan S. Tobin: How an out-of-context comment from Israel’s chief rabbi about a Pittsburgh synagogue doesn’t need to widen the Israel-Diaspora divide.
Ari Herschkowitz tells his story of breaking away from a strictly traditional ultra-orthodox Jewish sect in New York to the transition of finding support from groups such as Footsteps and Pathways.
