I am a 32 female from Israel leaving in the US. I am looking for a jewish partner to share my life with and build a family. Please if you have any contacts you can provide me with or refer me to other people that are interested in the same thing, i will highly appreciate it. Please take this request seriously as i have no other ways to meet other jewish people. thank you very much for any reply, ori haviv

Where does our Jewish Star come from? My Christian friends wear a cross and it is obvious where that symbol comes from but I never understood the significance of the 6 pointed star that we use. Thank you for your answer.

Last week we just read about sexual malpractices, as a newly religious person, even though I have not given full phallic penetration I have penetrated using my fingers, does this count as 'laying with them' in terms of that they are now my wife (even though they were not jewish)?

I understand that Aaharon the brother of Moshe Rabeinu in a famous story lied for the sake of Shalom, to bring togather two brothers quarraling. This seems unethical to me. Couldnt he use language rather than deceit and masquerade? Were the common Yiddin back in the desert at that time too wrapped up in their nomadic survival struggles to hear someone say: "Golly I almost feel like lying to bring you togather, cant you see that you are brothers, faced with wandering the dusty desert, why am I even THINKING of resorting to a rediculous scheme like that! Hear me out, and see through a moments escalation of drama to the truth of your love for eachother. Because truth has a way of winning out in the end without the need for deceit. Maybe they were having a fight that warranted them not speaking to eachother. Maybe they were both keenly aware of their melodrama? Maybe they thought it wasnt time to repatch things up? What is the lesson here? Not to trust your own self? To meddle in between people to try to match them up against their own will? To sneak and connive something as holy as Emes?

Our son was born on 21 July 1994 at 23.55, what is the barmitzvah portion for this date.