Only in New York. A noted federal judge reinvents the zeved habat/ simchat bat, courtesy of today’s Wall Street Journal: … Bennett Epstein [a Manhattan trial lawyer]… recently asked New York federal judge Kimba Wood to grant him a day’s…
Sorry for the delay, but this is what happens when you only get around to reading last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine on Friday morning. In any case, I loved this excerpt from the Magazine’s long piece on Obama’s rising-star…
Rabbi Shai Held has written a beautiful article on chiddush, Jewish authenticity, and gender egalitarianism in response to last week’s Hershel Shachter brouhaha. Here’s an excerpt, but you should read the whole thing. One can recoil at Rav Schachter’s words…
This is a painful opinion piece from this week’s New York Jewish Week. Devorah Zlochower and Rabbi Dov Linzer are luminaries in the progressive/open Orthodox world. One of them is a beloved former teacher of mine, and maybe of yours,…
Jews United for Justice is proud to partner with the Progressive Jewish Alliance to bring an exciting new social justice training program to DC! The Jeremiah Fellowship educates and trains a select cohort of young adults (ages 25-35) to become…
Also, is “halakhic progressive” the new designation for minyanim like Shira Hadasha? Is “partnership minyan” out? JOFA (the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance) invites submissions for its Seventh International Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy to be held in New York City…
I just got a huge announcement in a tiny email: We are pleased to announce the opening of Yeshivat Mahara”t, an Orthodox Yeshiva of Higher Learning, founded by Rabbi Avi Weiss of The Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. Yeshivat Mahara”t (Manhiga…
TPM‘s Josh Marshall writes: It used to be that when you saw two men and one woman under a chuppah, everyone’s assigned role was clear. Not any more. LOVE IT.
From the JTA: President Obama will host a Passover seder Thursday evening in the White House. The president’s schedule for the rest of the week, released on Tuesday evening, said that Obama would mark the beginning of the holiday with…
As we reported last week, a group of 25 large Conservative synagogues calling themselves HaYom: The Coalition for the Transformation of Conservative Judaism has formed to pressure the USCJ [the congregational arm of the movement] into becoming a “synagogue organization…