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Tefillin and Clean Bodies – Part 2: Women Wearing Tefillin – by Rabbi Zev Farber
See: Tefillin and Clean Bodies – Part 1: Elisha’s Wings Women are Exempt from Wearing Tefillin According to the Mishna (Berakhot 3:3), women are exempt from wearing tefillin. Women, slaves and minors...
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Guest Post by R. Ysoscher Katz: Translation of a Letter to Rav H. Schachter...
In response to numerous requests for a translation of my response to Rav H. Schachter’s letter on Partnership Minyanim, I am posting a translation When translating from one language to another one runs...
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Olympic Judaism
by Maharat Rachel Kohl Finegold I know we’ve moved on to Pikudei, but I hope you enjoy my Drasha from this past Shabbat. A bit of Olympic history for you: When the modern olympic games were founded in...
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Crowd-Sourced Bibliography on Tefilin, Partnership Minyanim, and the Future...
Will Rogers once quipped, “I don’t belong to an organized political party; I’m a Democrat.” To which I would respond, “I don’t belong to an organized Jewish denomination; I’m Orthodox.” Dozens of...
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IRF Passover Supplement 5774
With Contributions by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Rabbi Barry Dolinger, Rabbi Jon Kelsen, and Rabbi Menashe East...
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Kol Kallah- The voice of a Kallah teacher
Guest post by Sarah Robinson Almost as soon as I was married, I was asked by other women to study with them in preparation for their marriages as observant Jewish couples. The Kallah classes...
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Pew, Continuity and Conversion – Guest Post by Prof. Zvi Zohar
Precis The findings of the recent Pew survey teach us, that the Jewish community in the United States as a whole is in a state of crisis (aka she’at ha-dhaq) with regard to the simple – but crucial –...
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IRF Supplement for Tisha B’Av 5774/2014
IRF Supplement for Tisha b’Av 5774/2014 Guide to the observance of the fast with reflections on the day’s meaning from our friends at the IRF
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The Missing Question: How Do We Experience Authority? – By Rabbi Josh Feigelson
This past fall, the Orthodox/halakhic community experienced the most honest public conversation about itself that I think I’ve ever seen. The arrest and investigation of Rabbi Barry Freundel opened up...
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Transgender Orthodox Jews
by Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber An analysis of the challenges–both halakhic and social–faced by transgender individuals in the Orthodox Jewish world, with some suggested resolutions. INTRODUCTION – THE...
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