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Halakhah, Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Rabbis

“The ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends…on one’s ability to foresee the opposition of one’s peers to one’s innovation”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 November 2018
…the ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends, to a...
Tagged Halakhah, halakhic decisor, halakhic discourse, posek, Poskim |
Politics in America, Rabbis

“I want to know what my rabbi thinks of Jacob and Rachel, not of Pence and Pelosi”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 June 2017
I know outstanding rabbis on the left of the political spectrum and others on...
Tagged Jewish Life, Politics, politics from the pulpit, pulpit rabbis, rabbis |
Orthodoxy, Rabbis

“…it is, I think, the biggest, the one most central to the debates within Orthodoxy today, and the most personal”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 March 2017
It is impossible to credit the claim that it doesn’t matter at all to...
Tagged Halakhah, halakhic system, Niddah, Orthodoxy, rabbis |
Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, Rabbis

“There are women who are learned and it is only fitting that they too have a title”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 November 2016
…I still don’t see the objection to female clergy. I am not talking about...
Tagged female clergy, Marc B. Shapiro, Marc Shapiro, Modern Orthodox, Poseket, Rabbanit, Rebbetzin, Seforim Blog, The SEforim Blog |
Rabbis

“Gadolhood is less about the individual erudition of a given rabbi and more about a social fact…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 November 2016
Gadolhood is less about the individual erudition of a given rabbi and more about...
Tagged gadolhood, rabbinic authority, rabbis |
Jews in America, Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, Rabbis

“…although Modern Orthodoxy has produced many brilliant and dedicated leaders and laymen, it has yet to cultivate younger figures possessing the authority and broad appeal of its founding fathers”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 March 2016
The charge that the establishment lacks even a healthy amount of dynamism is undeniably...
Tagged Modern Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy, Rabbinical Council of America, rabbis, RCA |
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Rabbis

“The firmness of R. lsserles finds its fullest expression in his commentary on the Shulchan Aruch”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 March 2016
The firmness of R. lsserles finds its fullest expression in his commentary on the...
Tagged Halakhah, Rabbi Moses Isserles, Rabbi Moshe Isserles, rabbis |
Rabbis

“A rabbi needs sufficient training to go deeper into Jewish tradition than a well-read Jew”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 March 2016
A rabbi needs sufficient training to go deeper into Jewish tradition than a well-read...
Tagged Rabbi, rabbis |
Rabbis

“R. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik…wanted Christians to understand their scripture anew through sympathetic Jewish eyes and to educate his Jewish readers about their misunderstanding of Christianity”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2016
R. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, the traditional rabbi from Lithuania…is actually more sympathetic to Christian...
Tagged New Testament, Rabbi Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, rabbis |
Rabbis

“Rabbis in America and in Israel talk about political issues all the time, and maybe it is appropriate to ask whether that is a good policy for them and for the community”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 October 2015
Rabbis in America and in Israel are used to speaking about political issues. They...
Tagged Politics, rabbis |
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