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Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D’var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Anatomy; Comparative texts; Connection; History; Kabbalah; LGBTQ; Queer

Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber responds to Rabbi Fox’s teshuvah with two additional supportive elements drawn from the same sources, utilizing the Rivan and even the Rambam to enhance his stance.

Rachael Fried

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D’var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Action; Anatomy; Discrimination; Feminism; Framing; Gender; Identity; Inclusion; Language; LGBTQ; Personality; Queer; Responsibility; Sexuality; Shame; Society; Tzniut

Rachael Fried responds to Rabbi Fox’s teshuvah by holding space for both the complexity of gender and the double standard of loophole application.

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Teshuvah

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D’var Torah; Halakhah; Teshuvah; Acceptance; Comparative texts; Complexity; Debate; Framing; Identity; LGBTQ; Parallel; Queer; Responsibility; Sexuality; Silence; Stress

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper responds to Rabbi Fox’s teshuvah systematically and assesses what it means to accept an incredibly painful situation.

Rabbi Avi Weiss, in Jewish News Syndicate

April 3, 2023

Dvar Torah / Holidays / Pesach

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D’var Torah; Holidays; Pesach; Community; Conflict; Debate; Family; Love; Politics; Seder; Yom Kippur

Sitting down to the seder can feel like the inevitable wait for a political debate. Rabbi Avi Weiss provides ideas to diffuse the situation and ways to prevent conflict to begin with.

Nomi Kaltmann

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Vayikra / Tzav

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D’var Torah; Parshat Vayikra; Parashah; Clothing; Connection; Detail; Fire; God; Impact; Kavannah; Korbanot; Light; Mindfulness; Time

The depth and breadth of detail around how a korban was brought seems astounding. Nomi Kaltmann examines just a few ways in which kohanim were able to have an embodied experience.

Rabbanit Yael Keller

5783/2023

Dvar Torah / Vayikra / Vayikra

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D’var Torah; Parshat Vayikra; Parashah; Kavannah; Korbanot; Literary devices; Memory; Moses Mendelsohn; Parshat Noach; Philosophy; Senses; Smell; Talmud; Tanakh; Worldwide

Smell has the ability to transport an individual to a time lost to memory. Rabbanit Yael Keller studies the importance of smell to God as it is described in the korbanot.

Joe Killian, in The Pulse

March 23, 2023

In the News

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Article; Abortion; Conversation; Ethics; Interfaith; Legal; Medicine; Morality; Religion; Roe v. Wade; Social justice; Statistics; Welfare

Clergymembers and representatives of several different religions unite to discuss the religious understanding of Roe v. Wade.

Alexandra Miller, in Scripps News

March 21, 2023

In the News

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Article; Rabba Sara Hurwitz; Equality; Feminism; Jewish life; Leadership; Maharat; Orthodoxy; Women Rabbis

In under 15 years, Yeshivat Maharat has produced over 60 Rabbis who continue to pave the way for more. Rabba Sara Hurwitz offers insight into the hopes of the program.

Mike Wagenheim, in Jewish News Syndicate

March 20, 2023

In the News

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Article; Abuse; Children; Community; Jewish life; Orthodoxy; Rabba Sara Hurwitz; Sociology; Women Rabbis

The recent Nishma Research study offers insight into the worries and wonderings of the Orthodox community.

Rabba Sara Hurwitz, in WABC

March 19, 2023

Multimedia; In the News

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Podcast; Argument; Community; Culture; Difference; Impact; Jewish life; Language; Orthodoxy; Perspective; Religion; Women Rabbis

Rabba Sara Hurwitz speaks about what it means to be a Rabba in the current Orthodox community, and the ways in which we shape language to promote healthy discourse and acceptance.

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