▪ I signed this open letter: Violating Orthodox law and custom, dividing our community (if it is behind a paywall, you can access it through Twitter)
▪ Expanded version: Gordimer: Non-Orthodox Orthodoxy: Playing With Fire
▪ Beyond the Stars: Focusing on a Judaism of Mission, not Numbers
▪ ‘Revolution’? New Law Lets Marrying Couples Pick Their Rabbi
▪ Deliveryman awarded $900,000 after 16 years of anti-Semitic harassment
▪ Quebec’s Jewish community stands firm
▪ BBC on Daf Yomi: Tech revives interest in Jewish scripture
▪ Krauss: Orthodoxy’s Retreat From Modernity
▪ I agree and let my little son wear a rainbow bracelet but do not let him make one on Shabbos: Are Rainbow Looms kosher?
▪ You’ve Been Bageled
▪ In case you missed it, R. Ari Enkin has published a new sefer, Da’at V’din: Halachic Insights & Responsa
I saw that you signed the letter. I found it intriguing that no YU roshei yeshiva signed it. Is there a protocol that is being followed? Are they under orders?
I don’t know much about it. I was too busy with work to get involved in the writing or collecting signatures, which all happened very quickly anyway. I don’t believe the YU roshei yeshiva were asked. Maybe because there was no time or it would it look like YU fighting its competition. I have no doubt that R. Hershel Schachter would sign if asked. There are more signatures now and maybe someone will ask R. Schachter and the other roshei yeshiva. http://orthodoxrabbis.wordpress.com