▪ From across the pond, the dropping of these charges looks like a very big deal: London police drop sex abuse charges against prominent rabbi
▪ Gordimer: Reforming Conversion Standards: A Most Dangerous Idea
▪ Gordimer: Reforming Conversion Standards: A Most Dangerous Idea
▪ If speaking at Limmud is kiruv and attending Limmud is exposing oneself to kefirah (assumptions for the sake of argument), can you just make clear that you are speaking for kiruv purposes so the faithful don’t see a heter to attend?: Limmud row deepens after ‘aberration’ slur, Rosenblum: In re Limmud: A Rejoinder to Rabbi Cardozo
▪ Civil marriage in Israel: B Lau: Marriage of Convenience, Melamed: נישואין כהלכה ושותפות זוגית (h/t E Fischer)
▪ The death pangs of a movement that still claims to be halakhic: Conservative synagogues wrestle with non-Jews in the pews
▪ Anecdotes that don’t disprove the statistics about children from interfaith families: Rabbis raised with Christmas: Growing number come from intermarriages
▪ Sheker ha-chein ve-hevel ha-yofi from up close: Confessions of a Shomer Shabbos Hollywood Screenwriter
▪ The Kennedy Legacy: It’s been 50 years since 1963
▪ Rediscovering the Glories of Jewish Polish Food
▪ The face of agunot promises to keep fighting for all chained women, Orthodox Jewish Divorce (Get) Is Complicated, And So Is Being a Woman
▪ Another MO rabbi makes aliyah–good for the Jews, bas for the Jews: Rabbi Dardik to leave Beth Jacob, move to Israeli settlement with family
▪ Interview: On The Art of the Halakhic Process With Rabbi Chaim Rapoport
