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Orthodox rabbi addresses transgender issues | Religion

Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president, emeritus of the Orthodox Union and, at left, Rabbi Adir Posy, associate rabbi at Beth Jacob. Photo by Jaweed Kaleem The transgender rights movement has become a hot-button topic in popular culture and among liberal religious institutions, so much s…

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the Seforim blog: Assorted Matters

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Anti-semitism at Brooklyn College
Students barge in on Brooklyn College faculty meeting, demand ‘Zionists off campus’

A group of approximately 10 students brought a list of demands and called one professor a “Zionist pig.”

About Gil Student

Rabbi Gil Student is the Editor of TorahMusings.com, a leading website on Orthodox Jewish scholarly subjects, and the Book Editor of the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Action magazine. He writes a popular column on issues of Jewish law and thought featured in newspapers and magazines, including The Jewish Link, The Jewish Echo and The Vues. In the past, he has served as the President of the small Jewish publisher Yashar Books and as the Managing Editor of OU Press. Rabbi Student currently is serving his third term on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America and also serves as the Director of the Halacha Commission of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Jewish Action magazine, the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society and the Achieve Journal of Behavioral Health, Religion & Community, as well as the Board of OU Press. He has published five English books, the most recent titled Search Engine volume 2: Finding Meaning in Jewish Texts -- Jewish Leadership, and served as the American editor for Morasha Kehillat Yaakov: Essays in Honour of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.

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