Jewish News

From Hirhurim:

• SALT today: link
• Matzav.com strongly considering removing comments feature: link
• Jewish Ideas Daily on women rabbis: link
• WSJ: A Synagogue’s Unorthodox Revival: link
• NYT: A Jewish Prayer: link
• Chief Rabbi Sacks wins Lamm Prize: link
• R. Yitzchok Adlerstein on the effort for Martin Grossman: link
• Rumors about RCA and R. Avi Weiss reaching an agreement: link
• More on woman rabbi (note that one defender says this is a local issue and another says that this will impact the entire Jewish world): link

• Scholar’s school reform u-turn shakes up debate: link
• Bais Yaakov Elementary School of Lakewood closes down: link
• David Greenfield opponent Abraham Tischler, running for Borough Park Council seat, thrown off ballot: link
• NY state to spend $500,00 to fight sex abuse in Orthodox community: link
• Gary Rosenblatt on JOFA, Rabba and synagogue feminism: link
• NY Times: A synagogue in Cairo: link

• Ask The Rabbi: Orthodox Jewry’s stance on homosexuality: link
• R. Steven Pruzansky: Where does it say it?: link
• Re-Examining the Pollard Issue: link
• Invite R. Norman Lamm to Your Seder: link
• A few links I found on Jewish Ideas Daily:
  • Prof. Louis Ginsberg’s responsum on grape juice: link (PDF)
  • Prof. Solomon Schechter on the dogmas of Judaism: link (PDF)
  • Jack Wertheimer: Vital Signs: Putting the School into Hebrew School: link
  • Jack Wertheimer: The high cost of Jewish living (full article): link
• New Haggadah by Rabbi Norman Lamm Published by OU press: link
• R. Marc Angel: IRF will likely accept women: link
• Leiden Manuscript of the Talmud Yerushalmi online: link
  

• David Klinghoffer: Why Women Will Never Be Orthodox Rabbis: link
  Female-only megila readings growing in popularity: link
• Israel may let sponsors beam messages onto Western Wall (Purim joke): link
• Jack Wertheimer: The high cost of Jewish living (only abstract is free): link