I don’t have many negative religious memories, but one incident does come to mind. I was about 12 years old, and I made the decision

I grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan until my family moved to Bergenfield, New Jersey, when I was 9. Growing up, I

For years, Modern Orthodoxy has fought hard to allow elements of secular culture into the Torah world. Modern Orthodoxy must now face a new challenge,

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I wasn’t going to write this article because I first thought that the information in it is obvious. What prompted me to write this was

In my first article for The Jewish Link, “From the Desk of a 17-Year-Old Yeshiva Applicant” (http://jewishlinknj.com/features/11095-from-the-desk-of-a-17-year-old-yeshiva-applicant), I shared a personal epiphany: The tendency of

I live in Bergenfield, or for the sake of generalization, the greater Teaneck area. I understand that most young adults my age who live in