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Fri, 24 May 2013 16:43:10 +0000

My mother-in-law is Halachikly alive

The Stranger Within Your Gates - by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:29:27 +0000

Over the past two weeks, I received many questions about our recent GLBT Shabbat program from people from different parts of the Orthodox and general Jewish communities. I’d like to share with you some of the questions and my responses:

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Gonna Celebrate Pesach Like It’s 5773 – Rabbi Barry Gelman

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:19:42 +0000

Are things perfect? No. Could things be better? Yes. Would it be that the Messiah would arrive and that all of Israel’s enemies were no longer. But we must not confuse Pesach 5773, being celebrated in a world with a State of Israel with Pesach in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Partnership Minyanim: A Follow Up Response to Rabbi Barry Freundel

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:29:29 +0000

Further argument in favor of the importance of Partnership Minyanim in the Orthodox Jewish world.

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Maharat: A new model of leadership by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:48:59 +0000

In fact men and women are very different and we would be losing out on hearing women's unique voices of leadership and Torah if we expect them to be just like male rabbis.

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Fight for Your Quinoa!

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:13:15 +0000

This one is in our hands.

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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:56:50 +0000

Is the moment that we've been awaiting for 300 years?

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Guest Post – Reflections on Rabbi David Hartman z”l

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:39:40 +0000

Figures of great influence and authority within contemporary Orthodoxy, (such as Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on religious pluralism and Rabbi Yehuda Amital z’l on non-messianic Zionism) have shared ideas that Rabbi Hartman had developed years earlier. His intellectual legacy is broad within Orthodoxy and his ideas are easy to find. But it is harder to find the voice of Rabbi Hartman himself. There is much to celebrate in his legacy after such a productive and rich life, but for the Orthodox community, the absence of Rabbi David Hartman from our communal discourse is a warning for the future.

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Will Ophir Ben-Shetreet remain observant? If not, I may know why.

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:55:14 +0000

The Orthodox establishment should consider lenient views on Kol Isha as L’Chatchilla rulings in the service of the overarching goal of making Halachik living accessible and tolerable to as many people as possible.

Partnership Minyanim: A Follow Up - by Rabbi Zev Farber

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:12:35 +0000

This is a follow up post which critiques Rabbi Freundel's response to the original post. The point is to argue that there is no halakhic problem with women leading Qabbalat Shabbat and is part of a general defense of partnership minyanim.

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Partnership Minyanim: A Defense and Encomium by Rabbi Zev Farber

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Defining Equality in Judaism

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Women’s Participation in Ritual: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:31:22 +0000

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But what is our GOAL?

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:37:36 +0000

As Orthodox Jews we know what to DO. But where are we GOING?

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Cooking Our Children

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