Lisa, Martin, and Karen

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OUR Family PROFILEAn unfolding story of a polygamous family in Seattle, Washington
How we met
Martin and Karen met at a dance convention in Palm Springs in 1995. They found common interest in dancing, biology, and building houses. They became dance partners and started competing together, winning championships in California and Washington in various dance styles.
Karen [...]

Shmuley Boteach

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Jewish polygamy in our time.

B”HTHE ORTHODOX JEWISHPRO POLYGAMY PAGEBy EMES L’YAAKOV
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This article is dedicated to an open analysis and review of the Cherem Rabbeinu Gershom and the issue of polygamy for Orthodox Jews. All discussion is based on the following premises:
G-d is the creator G-d gave to the [...]

Sadam is dead and Pilegesh is back In Iraq

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WP: ‘Enjoyment marriages’ back in IraqBanned under Saddam Hussein, some say they are cover for prostitutionBy Nancy TrejosWashington Post Staff WriterThe Washington Post
BAGHDAD – Fatima Ali was a 24-year-old divorcee with no high school diploma and no job. Shawket al-Rubae was a 34-year-old Shiite sheik with a pregnant wife who, he said, could not have [...]

PilegeshPersonals.com PR Campaign

B”HFor the last few days I’m running an ad campaign thru Google searches and Google ads.I have selected 25 leading Jewish sites to promote http://PilegeshPersonals.com and http://Pilegesh.orgthe short term goal is to increase membership in pilegesh personals the long term goal is to change the public opinion.Besides the ad campaign I’m running a PR campaign [...]

Most women in US now live without spouses

B”HMost women in US now live without spouses More black women are single than any other racial group in America. BET.com News Staff & Wire ServicesPosted Jan. 17, 2007 – For probably the first time, more American woman are living without a husband than with one, and Black women are less likely than anyone to [...]

Baby Boom at Soroka

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Baby Boom at SorokaJanuary 2, 2007 Arutz Sheva – IsraelNN.comSoroka Hospital officials said Monday morning that 12,500 births, or more than 1,000 a month, were recorded at the Be’er Sheva facility in 2006. They explained that the high birth rate of the growing Bedouin community and of orthodox families are the [...]

Israeli-Arab Polygamy: Existential Threat

B”H Israeli-Arab Polygamy: Existential Threat 13 Shevat 5758 The Interior Ministry, in a report entitled “Polygamy in Israel,” indicates that Israel is paying through the nose to 20,000 Israeli-Arab men who have married multiple wives from other countries, [...]

Thank goodness for Bar Ilan

B”HThank goodness for Bar Ilan by: Rabbi Jeremy Rosen [...]Recently a furore that erupted in the Orthodox world over the issue of sex before marriage. It is common knowledge that even within ultra-Orthodoxy there is hanky panky before marriage–this against a halachic background that forbids premarital physical contact, let alone sex. Of course some rabbis [...]

Caveat emptor – buyer beware…

B”HShalom readers!In view of the prevailing dishonesty among modern males the honest and up front behavior of our past gedolim (sages of old) looks like a better example to emulate:
Talmud Yoma 18b (see also reference Yebamoth 37b):
When Rav would visit Darshish he would announce, “Which [woman] is [available] for a day?” When Rav Nachman would [...]