The four panelists were invited to give a constructive rebuke to the Orthodox community for the way that it deals with issues of race.
Transgender Jews are not asking rabbis’ permission to transition. We are asking for acceptance of our transition.
The Israeli government will begin paying non-Orthodox rabbis and recognizing them as community leaders.
Dozens of North American Orthodox rabbis protested to Israel\’s Interior Ministry following reports that converts under Orthodox auspices are being denied the right to immigrate. \”We are concerned that conversions performed under our auspices are being questioned vis-à-vis aliyah eligibility,\” said a letter delivered to the ministry on Tuesday. \”We find this unacceptable, and turn to you in an effort to insure that those individuals whom we convert will automatically be eligible for aliyah as they have been in the past.\”
Seeking to accentuate Jewish traditions that place a premium on ethical integrity, Los Angeles Orthodox rabbis are encouraging local businesses to sign up for a new seal of certification that ensures employers are treating workers fairly and humanely
Rabbi Deborah Bravo of Temple B\’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills, N.J., went through plenty of placement interviews after her 1998 ordination as a Reform rabbi. Everywhere, she got the same question: not about her attitude toward homosexuality, not whether she wore a kippah and tallit, but whether she would officiate at an intermarriage. \”It has become the litmus test for placement,\” Bravo said in San Diego at last month\’s annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the Reform movement\’s rabbinical association.
The first time the word \”rebbetzin\” appeared in The New York Times was in 1931, in a review of a book about Yiddish theater. The term stood untranslated; the reviewer and his editors assumed that readers would understand the meaning.
A group of 27 influential Charedi rabbis will soon issue a takhana, or rarely issued formal guideline, setting strict limits on the number of people who are to be invited to an Orthodox wedding, the number of musicians hired to play, and even the type and amount of food that is to be served.
The time has come to educate women and give them the titular and legal authority to right that which has gone so terribly wrong in the Orthodox world
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