Not long ago a day school teacher asked me how they should teach the biblical story of David and Batsheva to a middle school class. I told him he shouldn't. Plain and simple. Why? Because there are so ...

The chief judge of Jerusalem’s rabbinical court, Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel, recently ruled that a man may take a concubine if his wife is unable or unwilling to bear children, and unwilling to divorce him ...

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If you are already teaching difficult stories to process in Tanach, it would seem to make much more sense that we teach the morals learned from the horrific story of Pilegesh BaGivah than the story of ...