Mesorah has been the topic of many conversations in recent weeks, certainly in my social circles, as people have been heatedly debating whether or not women may serve as clergy. The archetypal figure ...

The first Mishnah in Pirkei Avos states that “Moshe Rabbeinu received the Torah from Har Sinai and transmitted it to Yehoshua, and Yehoshua to the Elders, and the Elders to the Prophets, and the ...

With the dust settling (for the moment) over the issue of ordaining women, a question of a much more sweeping and urgent nature needs to be squarely addressed. The right-wing opponents of the RCA’s ...

Our Parshat opens as Torah relates: “And these are the the offspring of Yitzchak son of Avraham — Avraham begot Yitzchak. Yitzchak was forty years old when he took Rivka, daughter of Bethuel the ...

In response to Yeshivat Maharat’s celebration of its first “ordination as clergy” of three women, the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) expressed upset. Without offering any specific halakhic ...

The evidence of Jewish history certainly seems to say yes. The leaders of Chassidut, for example, take in followers from all streams of Jewish practice. Rebbeim in yeshivot of various sorts also tend ...

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I was privileged to know and work with Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, founder and leader of the ArtScroll/Mesorah organization, whose first yahrzeit was just recently commemorated. Under Rabbi Zlotowitz’s ...