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Partnership minyans grow among the Orthodox grassroots, despite leaders’ condemnations

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?

By Uriel Heilman March 4, 2014 2:31 pm

SAR tefillin policy just the tip of the iceberg for Orthodox women

The announcement this week that SAR, a modern Orthodox high school in New York, is allowing girls to lay tefillin is helping expose an increasingly sharp fault line within Orthodoxy.

January 23, 2014 12:03 pm

Advocacy effort has Jewish schools reaping hundreds of millions in gov’t money

Jewish day schools and yeshivas are organizing to become much more effective not only at accessing government money but in lobbying state government for more, corralling hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars. How much more can Jewish schools get?

July 1, 2013 1:54 pm