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The pressure on Orthodoxy for the ordination of women has been mounting for many years. Nowhere in the Torah does it say that women cannot be teachers of the Law; halacha merely precludes women’s judicial roles. Why is traditional Judaism so steadfastly opposed to women’s rabbinic leadership roles? The job of a pulpit rabbi is […]

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The San Francisco-based Jim Joseph Foundation is donating $1 million to aid victims of Superstorm Sandy. The grant, administered through UJA-Federation of New York, will provide families devastated by the storm with additional assistance for educational purposes such as tuition/enrollment subsidies for Jewish day schools and Jewish residential summer camps. As Sandy recovery continues to […]

SodaStream, an Israeli maker of devices that carbonate beverages with a manufacturing plant in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, plans to run a TV commercial during Sunday’s Super Bowl, prompting calls for a boycott of the product by the Interfaith Boycott Coalition. The group, which includes Jews, Christian and Moslems, said in a […]

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