One Step Forward
Tue, 04/27/2010The leadership of the Rabbinical Council of America expressed great pride in passing a resolution this week among hundreds of member rabbis, without opposition, on the delicate and...
View ArticleRCA Finds Consensus For Deepening Women’s Roles
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher But many questions left unanswered.After much debate and despite predictions of a schism, the Rabbinical Council of America, the nation’s largest group of Orthodox...
View ArticleThe Dirty Truth About Orthodox Women Rabbis
The rejection of women rabbis and "rabbas" by the Rabbinical Council of America is "chilling," feminists tell us.Really? In what way? What exactly can't Modern Orthodox women do, according to the new...
View ArticleWomen Rabbis: A Conservative View Of An Orthodox Decision
Francine Klagsbrun Special To The Jewish Week In the book of Genesis, God allows Adam to create names for all the beasts and birds in existence. With that powerful act, the first man establishes the...
View ArticleSlippery Halachic Slope
Rabbi Avi Shafran Francine Klagsbrun (Opinion, May 14) both misunderstands Orthodox Judaism and unintentionally strengthens the Rabbinical Council of America’s rationale for stating that “regardless...
View ArticleMs. Maimonides: How Orthodox Women Will Be Accepted As Rabbis
Joseph R. Rackman Special To The Jewish Week Some Jewish community leaders expressed disappointment over the recent resolution of the Rabbinical Council of America, the leading Modern Orthodox...
View ArticleJewish Community Still Behind On Confronting Abuse
Asher Lipner Special To The Jewish Week As someone who has worked with numerous survivors of sexual abuse in the Orthodox community over the past 10 years, I have been privileged to bear witness to...
View ArticleJewish Activists Sail Flotilla For Shalit To UN’s Backyard
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor Waving Israeli and U.S. flags and posters of Gilad Shalit, hundreds of Jewish activists on eight ships sailed up the East River to the United Nations on Thursday...
View ArticleAccused Pedophile To Resign From Queens Rabbinical Board
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor In agreement with Vaad, Rabbi Ephraim Bryks to leave in October; officials decline to state reasons.A Queens rabbi who has been dogged by allegations of sexual...
View Article‘Rabba’ Appearance Stirs Up Controversy
Staff Report Rabba Sara Hurwitz of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, who was invited to speak at the Young Israel of Hewlett on a Shabbat several weeks ago, has come and gone. But a flare-up over her...
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