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Orthodox group makes prenup mandatory for Jewish marriages
Ryan Torok
September 29, 2016
The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) has adopted a resolution requiring a hala-chic prenuptial agreement in any wedding officiated by a member of the organiza-tion, thereby preventing husbands from deny-ing a get, or Jewish divorce document, to their spouse in the future, or a wife from refusing to accept one.
Letters to the editor: UC’s dilemma, The Shabbos Project traffic jam, RCA and more
Jewish Journal
November 11, 2015
Thank you for running the excellent column by professor Judea Pearl (“The UC’s New Dilemma: To Name or Not to Name,” Nov. 6).
A view from the women’s section on Orthodox spiritual leadership
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
November 10, 2015
I have a vivid memory of sitting in my yeshiva high school principal’s office, imploring him to start teaching the girls Mishnah and Gemara, to offer a little more respect to our intellects and our souls by giving us access to all the Jewish texts that form the basis of our heritage, of what we were expected to live every day.
With resolution against hiring women rabbis, RCA votes for confrontation
Jewish Journal
November 3, 2015
When America’s main modern Orthodox rabbinical association voted last week to ban the hiring of clergywomen by its members, the question wasn’t whether to endorse women rabbis.
Rabbinical Council of America officially bans ordination and hiring of women rabbis
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2015
The Rabbinical Council of America, the main modern Orthodox rabbinical group, formally adopted a policy prohibiting the ordination or hiring of women rabbis.
In protest, Rabbi Avi Weiss quits Rabbinical Council of America
Jewish Journal
June 29, 2015
Rabbi Avi Weiss is quitting the Rabbinical Council of America to protest its failure to admit as members rabbis whose sole ordination is from the rabbinical school he founded.
For some Orthodox converts, biggest challenges come after mikvah
Jewish Journal
November 4, 2014
There was the convert who was barred from a synagogue on Yom Kippur, the Jamaican convert whose boyfriend’s rabbi offered him a coveted synagogue honor if only he’d dump her, the grandmother who told her granddaughter she’d be going to hell because she became a Jew.
Rabbi in voyeurism case seen as distant and — until now — morally strict
Jewish Journal
October 15, 2014
Rabbi Barry Freundel was known to the Washington Jewish community as a champion of moral rectitude.
Agunah crowd shouldn’t target families
Jewish Journal
December 16, 2013
The preeminent sacred cow to many Jews is compassion for agunot (“chained” women whose husbands withhold a Jewish bill of divorce, or “Get”). But enough already: the Internet crowd attacking Avrohom Meir Weiss in his divorce from Gital Dodelson is becoming as heartless and halachically problematic as Weiss himself.
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