''Binah'' ( he, בינה, "Insight") is a

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women's magazine published weekly by Binah Magazine Corporation in the

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. Additional distribution takes place in the

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and

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. Binah Magazine Corporation is a subsidiary of

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Publishing Corporation. The magazine debuted in Elul 5766 (Fall 2006). ''Binah'' features articles appealing to Jewish women, including family matters, health, recipes, short stories and serialized novels. It is known for its full-color, glossy pages and its coverage of topics not usually discussed in mainstream

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publications, such as

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, single-parenting, home budgeting, and medical conditions. Its articles often create a

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in Orthodox circles and online blogs. For example, a 2012 article on summer camp security led to a summer-camp inspection by New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind and

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hopeful Simcha Felder (he was elected to office a few months later) at Camp Agudah in upstate New York.

Fiction

Each issue of ''Binah'' includes fiction, poetry, and serialized novels. Novels originally serialized in ''Binah'' and ''Binah Bunch'' have been published by mainstream Jewish book publishers. These include: *''Dual Dilemmas'' *''Full Harvest'' *''Pass or Fail'' *''Shortchanged''

Spinoffs

''Binah'' first food editor, Estee Kafra, spun off her weekly

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recipe column into two cookbooks, ''Spice It Right'' and ''Cooking With Color''. Chaya Feigy Grossman, author of a cooking column in ''Binah Bunch'', published a collection of her children's recipes in ''The Cherry on Top: A Kosher Junior Cookbook'' (

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, 2008).

References

External links

Official website
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