Bat Aliyah

Lately, there has been a huge amount of tension regarding the role of women in Judaism bubbling up around me. I haven't been so caught...

NOTE: I originally wrote this after a friend was killed in the bombing at Hebrew University on July 31, 2002 (22 Av 5762) . I was still l...

One of the experiences of being an immigrant, and I believe this applies to all immigrants everywhere, is that, at least initially, you l...

I received a copy of Doublelife: One Family, Two Faiths and a Journey of Hope by Harold Berman and Gayle Redlingshafer Berman in the mai...

Item : In an Orthodox shul I attended while visiting friends in another community for a simcha, the men sat in beautifully constructed syn...

Founded by Soccer Dad, Haveil Havalim is a carnival of Jewish blogs -- a weekly collection of Jewish and Israeli blog highlights, ti...

This guest post was written by Anabelle Harari. Her bio appears below. An Israeli-American Living in an American-Israeli City (or i...

Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny. I have no idea why I remember this phrase, which I learned as an undergraduate student 100 years ago. I...

Today was grocery day. We went to the grand re-opening of a store that is reputed to have the very best prices in town. Lots of bags, boxe...

These are the tools of a voter in Israel. The blue teudat zehut - my national identity card, the postcard that told me where my polling p...

Founded by  Soccer Dad ,  Haveil Havalim  is a carnival of Jewish blogs -- a weekly collection of Jewish & Israeli blog highligh...