“I’ve never heard of a woman who was distracted by a male rabbi’s sermon due to his being good-looking”
It’s no secret that men are more sexually attracted to women then vice versa....
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“…it is the modernist project that Rabbi Willig further fears will ‘lead to a schism within Orthodoxy…'”
…it is the modernist project that Rabbi Willig further fears will “lead to a...
“…when operating as an editor, a Tosafist seldom introduced new material into the text”
A great challenge facing those who sought to edit the integrated commentaries was the...
“Whether it’s from mere discomfort around women or buried chauvinism, the reality is that most men relate best to male leaders”
For better or for worse, men like their boy’s clubs. They’re attracted to environments...
“When we make an inventory of the topics addressed in Rabbinic stories, we see that the Rabbis discussed a large number of events connected with the Jewish past during the ancient period”
When we make an inventory of the topics addressed in Rabbinic stories, we see...
“The Jewish community of the land of Israel no longer had a recognized social elite or “establishment,” and the Jews of the diaspora no longer had a center that bound them together. This was the vacuum the rabbis tried to fill”
In 70 C.E., the temple was destroyed, the high priesthood and the sanhedrin ceased...
“…the architecture of the Holy of Holies…suggest a type of theological equality”
…the architecture of the Holy of Holies expressed something else, as well, because, if...
“Over the past generation new institutions…have emerged as counterweights to the rightward and isolationist drift within Orthodoxy”
Over the past generation new institutions — Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Yeshivat Maharat, JOFA and...
“Joy and love and acceptance are the greatest resources we can offer our children to foster their spiritual renewal”
It’s so easy for religious observance to become a wedge issue between you and...
“Ironically, from a professional perspective the liberal YCT rabbi actually has more in common with Haredi outreach-oriented figures than the inreach focused RIETS graduates”
Ironically, from a professional perspective the liberal YCT rabbi actually has more in common...