​Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt is an award-winning journalist and essayist living in New York City. She is the Lifestyle editor at the Forward, and was previously a reporter for Haaretz. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Salon, and Tablet. Avital teaches journalism at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, and does pastoral work alongside her husband Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt in Manhattan's Upper East Side.

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The God of Marriage

"Or perhaps he was just scared of something restless in her eyes, worried she'd be too complicated a wife, too outspoken at times and at other times too mysterious."

Putin Refuses To Let the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Library Leave Moscow

An international cast of characters is embroiled in a bizarre legal dispute over the late rabbi’s personal collection of books

Confessions of a
​Rabbi's Wife


As a writer and the wife of an Orthodox rabbi , I stand out as a strange, misfit creature in a world of rules