This week on Kveller, Lynn Levy penned an article about why she didn’t bring her young sons to her nephew’s bris in an Orthodox shul because it has a mechitzah. While Levy has begrudgingly gone to Orthodox shuls herself for the sake of peace in the family with her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, she decided that […]

For days, President Biden shaking hands or not shaking hands for his Middle East trip was in the news, because apparently he didn’t want to shake the hand of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, but also didn’t want to snub him too much. So his team announced that due to rising Covid cases there’d […]

Over the weekend, Anne Frank began trending on Twitter and for the worst reason imaginable: “Anne Frank had white privilege,” began one tweet. “Bad things happen to people with white privilege also but don’t tell the whites that.” “Yes, all white people are safe,” said another Twitter user. “No one is saying the Nazis didn’t […]

While the state of education in male charedi schools has been a topic of public discourse over the last several years (due to some schools underperforming in terms of secular education), there’s a whole category of Orthodox Jewish schools rarely discussed in traditional media – the high performing ones. In modern and centrist Orthodox and […]

As a secular Jewish American young woman, I was raised to be a feminist. I went through a stage in middle school where I exclusively called God “She,” even though I wasn’t sure if there was a God. I was always one of the loudest and most outspoken students in any class that I was […]