Yeshivat Maharat Gets ‘Seal Of Approval’
Tamar Snyder Staff Writer Bikkurim incubator to support Orthodox women’s seminary headed by Sara Hurwitz. As the controversy surrounding Sara Hurwitz’s designation as “rabba” continues to swirl in the...
View ArticleNiddah Beyond The Kallah Class
Helen Chernikoff Staff Writer When Yeshivat Maharat, the school that trains Orthodox women as spiritual and halachic leaders, started last fall to plan its first public symposium, Dean Rabba Sara...
View ArticleClergy Learning, About Disability
Ben Elton Special To The Jewish Week A dozen middle-aged to elderly Israelis, some blind, some deaf, some both, baking bread. It is not the most promising theatrical concept, but it works. Rabbinical...
View ArticleHalachic Template For Women’s Ordination Isn’t New
Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg Special To The Jewish Week The Modern Orthodox Yeshivat Maharat’s investiture of three women as halachic and spiritual leaders has drawn rapturous praise from the non-Orthodox...
View ArticleThe Hebrew Institute Of Riverdale's Yom HaShoah Seder
Video reporter Aaron Herman attends a very unique human rights seder.
View ArticleOrthodox Yeshiva Leader Arguing For Greater Privacy In Women’s Conversions
JTA In the wake of voyeurism allegations against a prominent Orthodox rabbi, the head of an Orthodox yeshiva for women is arguing that male rabbis need not be present for a female convert’s ritual...
View ArticleNew Cohort Of Clergy Tests Orthodox Readiness For Women Rabbis
JTA When Yeshivat Maharat ordains six women next month, the New York institution will more than double the number of Orthodox clergywomen in the field.read more
View ArticleFirst Yeshivat Maharat Graduate To Call Herself ‘Rabbi’ Hired By Orthodox...
JTA The first graduate of Yeshivat Maharat to take the title “rabbi” said she has been hired by an unnamed American Orthodox synagogue.read more
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