Jewish Law
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
A number of recent essays have been swimming their way across the blogosphere and seem to have serendipitously swirled together. ...
Solving the agunah problem means finding the right address
In the wake of the current discussion of the Gital Dodelson case (about which I know nothing more than what ...
Hillel and Shammai
Two weeks ago I posted a piece responding to some articles on patrilineality which provoked several excellent other blog posts ...
Patrilineal Pandemonium: What’s Behind All The Emotion?
Wow. It has been quite a busy week here at the Rabbis Without Borders blog discussing patrilineal descent and its ...
Patrilineal Descent: Why This Rabbi Feels No Angst
This past week, two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues have shared their perspectives and struggles with the religious identities ...
Patrilineal Jewish Descent: An Open Orthodox Approach
This week there has been much conversation online and offline on the Jewish status of people of patrilineal Jewish descent. ...
The Non-Jewish Rabbi? The Problem of Patrilineal Descent
Two articles posted earlier this week made reference to an individual who had been born to a Jewish father and ...
Abortion, Birth Control, and the Complexity of Halacha (Jewish Law)
I recently came across a copy of the June 28 issue of The Jewish Press . The Jewish Press is an Orthodox ...
How can one make moral decisions?
A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine gleefully forwarded a link to a study that asserted that atheists and ...
Should Women Thank God For Not Making Them Men?
A recent brouhaha has emerged in the Jewish blogosphere over Rabbi Ari Hart’s recent post, “Should I Thank God For ...
The Torah of second chances
A couple of years ago, after several years of trying to get all the way through the counting of the ...
Two Worlds
By Education Fellow Reva FrankelI grew up in a Modern Orthodox community, so when I came to work at the ...