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Posted by: Gil Student in News Feb 1, 17 0

A First-Family First
Note that many authorities are more lenient about entering a church (in extreme circumstances) than entering a non-Orthodox synagogue

The Thin Line between the Creepy and the Holy
P Berger

How Could Modern Orthodox Judaism Produce Jared Kushner?
This is despicable. It amounts to: I disagree with their politics therefore they are immoral and undeserving of respect. The author should get out of his echo chamber, talk to people who disagree with him and try to understand them. He might learn something, if not about other political views than at least about basic respect of others

Blog: American Jews are becoming more conservative
R A Gordimer

Rabbi Gil Student is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief 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 serves on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America. He also 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.