After Orthodox feminist group issues mea culpa, one accuser fires back
The Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance president apologized for the organization's part in alleged harassment. Not everyone is buying it.
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News Pioneering Orthodox sex therapist accused of harassment
Updated April 13, 9:15 p.m ET with statements from Sharon Weiss-Greenberg. Multiple claims of harassment have emerged against a pioneering figure of women’s empowerment from former employees of the organization she helped found. Bat Sheva Marcus, a renowned sex therapist who was the president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, was accused in scathing Facebook…
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Fast Forward Fundraiser Nets $8,000 For Gay Orthodox Rabbinical Student Denied Ordination
(JTA) — A fundraiser on behalf of Daniel Atwood, the gay rabbinical student who was denied ordination at a liberal Orthodox rabbinical seminary, has raised more than $8,000, including $3,000 in its first hour alone. Atwood was denied ordination at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a liberal Orthodox rabbinical seminary in New York City. The school knew…
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News Liberal Orthodox Rabbis Rejected By Israel Rabbinate
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An internal correspondence document written by a senior member of Israel’s Rabbinical Courts rejects the authority of all rabbis who receive their ordination from a yeshiva located in New York. The document, obtained by Itim, a nonprofit that guides Israelis through the country’s religious bureaucracy, shows that despite the haredi Orthodox-dominated Chief…
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Community Prominent Orthodox Rabbis Affirm Progressive Commitments
Rabbi Dov Linzer, our Rosh Yeshiva, spoke at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School’s annual dinner about the centrality of Torah in our lives as Jews, and then shared the following words: “‘And let it be that we all may know your name and study your Torah.’ Let us make sure that everyone – rich or…
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Opinion Is ‘Open Orthodoxy’ an Oxymoron?
This past year saw the inaugural graduation in June of Yeshivat Maharat, the Bronx yeshiva that has been controversially training women to lead Orthodox congregations. Three new maharats emerged from the school this year. Then in the fall came the high profile installation of Rabbi Asher Lopatin as the new president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah,…
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Opinion Who’s In and Who’s Out in Orthodoxy
At a time when most Jewish leaders are eagerly embracing anyone who claims a shred of Jewish identity or heritage, some Orthodox leaders are doing just the opposite: dramatically restricting the acceptable behaviors and belief systems of even their own. So we have the embarrassing spectacle of Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the new president of Yeshivat…
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News Asher Lopatin Gets Less-Than-Warm Welcome From Orthodox World
Rabbi Asher Lopatin is feeling a little “roughed up.” It’s October 17, less than a fortnight since Lopatin’s official installation as president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a liberal Orthodox rabbinical school in the Bronx, and his attempts to reach out to New York’s Orthodox community are not going well. Sitting in a cramped office at…
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