Mark Dratch

With resolution against hiring women rabbis, RCA votes for confrontation

Leaders of the modern Orthodox association tried to derail the resolution, but they were overpowered by member rabbis committed to drawing a line in the sand.

Orthodox rabbis join the conversation on LGBTQ inclusion

At a landmark conference, prominent Orthodox rabbis and prominent mental health researchers engaged in a public discussion about homosexuality and Orthodoxy.

Centralizing Orthodox conversion: Good or bad?

Rabbis Avi Weiss and Marc Angel face off against Rabbi Mark Dratch in dueling JTA Op-Eds about whether the Rabbinical Council of America’s centralized conversion system, known as GPS, is good or bad for conversion.

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