May 2026

In 2016, someone posted an antisemitic article on LinkedIn called “What’s Good for the Jews Is Bad for America,” or something along those lines. At the time, I worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC. I commented on the post, and another antisemite got into an argument with me. The next thing…

The Madison-Allen-Michelle-David Cheating Scandal: Commentary These 2 couples were a horrible match for one another. Yet MAFS matched them anyway. Was that deliberate, to create drama? Or are they just bad at making matches? Then, on top of it, Madison from the first couple and David from the second couple stepped out of their respective…

Shalom Task Force began in a moment of genuine moral urgency. In 1992, a New York pediatrician kept seeing battered Jewish women and children in his practice—bruised, frightened, and without culturally appropriate resources. Distressed by what he saw, he approached community members, and a group of women banded together to create what became Shalom Task…

Okay, so I want to talk about a couple of things. The first is why so many people are confused about the Raphi Stein issue—or what I’m going to call the Raphi Stein issue. It is really the Kohn vs. Stein divorce, similar to the Lonna Kin case. One of the central issues is a…

For generations, a powerful cultural myth circulated quietly within many Jewish communities: “Jews don’t beat their spouses.” Wrapped in the religious ideal of Shalom Bayit (peace in the home), domestic abuse was often imagined as something that happened elsewhere, in other cultures or dysfunctional secular environments. But survivors, advocates, clinicians, and community organizations have spent…

In Judaism, marriage is not supposed to be a power struggle between men and women. That is why the word for man, ish, which has a yud, the Hebrew letter yud, and ishah has the Hebrew letter hei, and the yud and the hei are God’s name. We don’t believe that you can have a…

Candace Owens and Adina Sash: Two Birds of a Feather By Dr. Dannielle BlumenthalFree to reuse with attribution. In the beginning, the antics of Adina Sash aka FlatbushGirl were playful and fun. Then things turned dark and deranged. Something has happened to her. The parallel of Candace Owens keeps coming up for a reason. Candace…

10 words/phrases professional feminists use to intimidate other women and men from speaking naturally: I have a lot of real feminist friends and none of them ever talk like this.

I thought I would talk about just one of my many timeline cleanses, which I tend to do when I’m migrating my blog, which gets pretty big. When I’m done with an issue, when an issue I have researched is so gross that it’s just grossing up my timeline. So it was 2016, some of…

Every journalist who investigates a topic has to know when their work has come to an end. That time has arrived for me. I hope I have helped people to think more critically about a tough subject. In this case, an additional factor was the fiery institutional dynamics surrounding the issue. You have, Halacha, Batei…