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Posted by: Gil Student in News Aug 28, 19 0

• Welcoming Intermarried Couples May Not Be Enough https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/welcoming-intermarried-couples-may-not-be-enough/

• I don’t believe his thesis but I love to watch him make his case – Reply from Haym Soloveitchik to the JQR Interview with Robert Brody https://seforimblog.com/2019/08/reply-from-haym-soloveitchi/

• Father-in-law of Hasidic singer Benny Friedman hit in head with brick https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/father-in-law-of-hasidic-singer-benny-friedman-hit-in-head-with-thrown-brick-while-walking

• The clever fake rabbis who made millions off of Prohibition http://www.jta.org/2019/08/27/opinion/the-clever-fake-rabbis-who-made-millions-off-of-prohibition

• Man divorces wife after 6-year refusal as Israel confiscates his passport https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-divorces-wife-after-6-year-refusal-as-israel-confiscates-his-passport/

• Protesters Descend on Local Shivah Home of Man Who Refuses to Issue Wife a Get https://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/community/303586/protesters-descend-on-local-shivah-home-of-man-who-refuses-to-issue-wife-a-get/

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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