Rabbi Elyashiv, leading halachic authority, in grave condition

Published on February 7, 2012

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, considered this generation's leading halachic authority, is in critical condition.

New JTS Head Faces Trouble, Opportunity

By Joe Eskenazi
Published on April 27, 2006

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) announced this month that Eisen, 54, the chair of Stanford University's religious studies program, would become just the second nonrabbi to serve as the New York City seminary's chancellor and the first since 1940. He succeeds Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, who held the post for two decades.

The Israeli Supreme Court’s Conscience

By Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
Published on February 28, 2002

The conscience of the Jewish state has spoken through the recent landmark ruling of Israel's Supreme Court. It has taken an important step toward removing the pariah stigma from tens of thousands of Jews who converted to Judaism by the rabbinic authority of non-Orthodox rabbis, but ignored by the Jewish state.

Caught in a Maelstrom

By Eric Silver
Published on August 14, 1997

Brenner, a 57-year-old New York-born social worker, Reform Jew and feminist, is at the epicenter of the latest halachic earthquake shaking Israel. Her downstairs neighbor is Dov Dumbrovich, the Orthodox chairman of the local religious council, who is defying a Supreme Court ruling and refusing to let her take her seat on the council.