Halacha

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

A number of recent essays have been swimming their way across the blogosphere and seem to have serendipitously swirled together. ...

Hillel and Shammai

Two weeks ago I posted a piece responding to some articles on patrilineality which provoked several excellent other blog posts ...

Patrilineal Pandemonium: What’s Behind All The Emotion?

Wow. It has been quite a busy week here at the Rabbis Without Borders blog discussing patrilineal descent and its ...

Patrilineal Descent: Why This Rabbi Feels No Angst

This past week, two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues have shared their perspectives and struggles with the religious identities ...

Patrilineal Jewish Descent: An Open Orthodox Approach

This week there has been much conversation online and offline on the Jewish status of people of patrilineal Jewish descent. ...

The Non-Jewish Rabbi? The Problem of Patrilineal Descent

Two articles posted earlier this week made reference to an individual  who had been born to a Jewish father and ...

How can one make moral decisions?

A few weeks ago, an acquaintance of mine gleefully forwarded a link to a study that asserted that atheists and ...

The Torah of second chances

A couple of years ago, after several years of trying to get all the way through the counting of the ...

Two Worlds

By Education Fellow Reva FrankelI grew up in a Modern Orthodox community, so when I came to work at the ...

Mr. Prime Minister, Tear Down This Wall!

In June 1975, I was getting ready to leave Israel after a year of study. I bumped into a friend ...