{"id":21975,"date":"2010-08-02T20:53:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T04:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21975"},"modified":"2010-08-02T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T05:15:09","slug":"will-bnai-david-judea-follow-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21975","title":{"rendered":"Will Bnai David-Judea Follow Suit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/bnaidavid.com\">Bnai David<\/a> is the most liberal Orthodox shul on the West Coast. I wonder if it will copy these developments in New York?<\/p>\n<p>My yetzer hara says: &#8220;Do you remember Lamelle from when she was at Bnai David?  She has a beautiful voice. And is easier on the eyes than the male baalei tefila.  Maybe he&#8217;s on to something!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/matzav.com\/avi-weiss-riverdale-orthodox-shul-to-have-woman-lead-kabbolas-shabbos-tonight\">Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In a move that apparently would make \u201chistory\u201d for an Orthodox synagogue in the United States, the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale is scheduled tonight to have a woman lead a Kabbolas Shabbos service where both men and women are expected to be in the pews, according to the Jewish Week.<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish week reports:<\/p>\n<p>A one-page e-mail letter was sent Friday morning to members of the synagogue, which is led by Rabbi Avi Weiss. The rabbi was recently embroiled in a major controversy over assigning the title Rabba to an HIR spiritual leader, Sara Hurwitz. The letter states: \u201cKabbalat Shabbat will be led by a woman. This is a halachically acceptable practice, and models our values.\u201d While some Orthodox synagogues have women\u2019s tefillah groups, a woman leading a Friday-night service for both men and women has apparently not been done in an Orthodox shul.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional interpretation of Jewish law bars women from such a public role in the prayer service for various reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bnai David is the most liberal Orthodox shul on the West Coast. I wonder if it will copy these developments in New York? My yetzer hara says: &#8220;Do you remember Lamelle from when she was at Bnai David? She has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21975\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5874,214],"tags":[8294,19804,7264,2618,4860,7793],"class_list":["post-21975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bnai-david-judea","category-modern-orthodox","tag-hebrew-institute-of-riverdale","tag-kabbalat-shabbat","tag-mail-letter","tag-orthodox-shul","tag-orthodox-synagogues","tag-rabbi-avi-weiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21979,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions\/21979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}