Avi Weiss

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A High Holidays plea: Listen to each other on Israel’s nation-state debate

Supporters and detractors of the new law have more in common than not, writes the founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale.

By Rabbi Avi Weiss August 24, 2018 1:20 pm

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Alan Dershowitz and other prominent Israel advocates warn Netanyahu against expelling Africans

They tout Natan Sharansky to head a committee seeking a humanitarian solution, but he told JTA he knows nothing about plan.

March 15, 2018 5:03 pm

This Yom Kippur, try confessing the good things you’ve done

Rabbi Avi Weiss proposes an "opposite" ritual of confession, this one focusing on the good things one has done.

October 5, 2016 9:00 am

Rabbi Lila Kagedan poised to make history with job at Orthodox shul

By Uriel Heilman January 13, 2016 4:36 pm

In protest, Rabbi Avi Weiss quits Rabbinical Council of America

June 29, 2015 2:18 pm

New cohort of clergy tests Orthodox readiness for women rabbis

By Uriel Heilman May 12, 2015 6:06 pm

Centralizing Orthodox conversion: Good or bad?

By Uriel Heilman November 18, 2014 12:00 pm

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Op-Ed: Why the RCA’s conversion system is better than the alternative

By Mark Dratch November 17, 2014 4:46 pm

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Op-Ed: Centralizing authority on conversions hurts converts

By Rabbi Avi Weiss and Marc Angel November 13, 2014 3:23 pm

#BringBackOurBoys meets #BringBackOurGirls

By Miriam Moster June 17, 2014 5:56 pm

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