Mechon Hadar doesn't ordain rabbis; instead, the New York school hopes to form an educated Jewish laity and encourage rigorous Torah study across Jewish institutions.
The battle over partnership minyans is just the latest scuffle in the war over women’s roles in the Orthodox community. Is it just a matter of time before these semi-egalitarian minyans go mainstream?
Yeshiva University said it will grant rabbinic ordination to a student after previously threatening to withhold it over his having once hosted a so-called “partnership minyan.”