NYJW Opinion

How would you feel about your rabbi having a non-Jewish partner? On Wednesday the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College made public its decision “to no longer bar qualified applicants with non-Jewish partners from admission” and to no longer bar rabbinical students “from graduating as rabbis because they have non-Jewish partners.” After much deliberation and discussion, Rabbi Deborah […]

 I was very pained in reading Gary Rosenblatt’s column, “In Riverdale, Split Deepens Over Rabbi” (Sept. 25).  Sure there is still a place for Rabbi Rosenblatt teaching, writing, consulting, et al. But if people like Ludwig Bravmann, witnesses to our people’s darkest days, 90 years old, to whom the shul’s board, reputation and place in […]