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Category Archives: Conversion
Chaviva Edwards – Jewish Blogger, Shul Hopper
Libby Ellis writes: Chaviva may be on the CTA at this very minute Chaviva Edwards is a super-blogger with a really long commute. The Buena Park dweller takes the CTA down to the University of Chicago where she works … Continue reading
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Frightened By The Conversion Controversy
Frightened posts to Cross-Currents: Again, there is an issue in that the court abolished ALL of the giyur done by R. Druckman and R. Avi-Or. The apologeticists and attackers keep framing this debate in terms of extremes, in which a … Continue reading
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Tagged controversial cases, conversion controversy, female offspring, rsquo, yeshiva student, yeshivot
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The Conversion Controversy
Rav Yitzhock Adlerstein writes: Several weeks into the current conversion fracas, and I have participated in a webcam debate, read two of Rabbi Sherman’s piskei din, plus teshuvos both modern and pre-modern, several articles in Techumin, a few chapters of … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion controversy, gerus, rabbinate, religious forces, rsquo, texas chainsaw massacre
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The ‘Tolerant’ Rabbi Druckman Vs. The ‘Hard-Hearted’ Haredim
Jonathan Rosenbloom, who is charedi, writes: Rabbi Avraham Sherman, author of the Rabbinical High Court decision, served for many years as an IDF rabbi, and once spent a sabbatical at Yeshiva University, the flagship institution of modern Orthodoxy. Another one … Continue reading
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Tagged chief rabbi, isaac herzog, israeli rabbis, jerusalem post, rabbi avraham, Yeshiva University
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Conversion Controversy Discussion
Rabbi Gil Student writes: "The Torah in Motion discussion between R. Barry Freundel, R. Yitzchok Adlerstein and R. Seth Farber about the recent conversion controversy is now available for purchase (link – "The Conversion Crisis – Panel"). I am almost … Continue reading
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Tagged conversion controversy, conversion crisis, gil student, marc shapiro, negative consequences, seth farber, torah in motion
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