{"id":62606,"date":"2015-01-30T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T21:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62606"},"modified":"2015-01-30T14:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:49:16","slug":"rabbi-aaron-rakeffet-rothkoff-feminism-is-the-biggest-problem-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62606","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff: &#8216;Feminism is the biggest problem we have&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.yutorah.org\/lectures\/lecture.cfm\/719955\/Rabbi_Aaron_Rakeffet-Rothkoff\/2006-11-27_Press_Conference_-_Contemporary_Issues_2\">class<\/a> from 2006. The rabbi says he permitted a woman, quietly, to put on tefillin.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a young woman leading the prayers, &#8220;if your eyes aren&#8217;t on her, you&#8217;re not a man, and if your eyes aren&#8217;t on your siddur, you&#8217;re not a Jew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;It&#8217;s a Torah prohibition for a married woman to use her maiden name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine went on a date with a Conservative rabbi. Things took their course. When he got up in the morning, he put on tefillin. When he looked behind him, there was his date putting on tefillin too. <\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Once they put kosher [meat] on a truck, seal it, package it, only Gentiles should be allowed to touch it. We&#8217;ve never had a [kosher] scandal with a goy&#8230; Every scandal was with Jews.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting class from 2006. The rabbi says he permitted a woman, quietly, to put on tefillin. If you have a young woman leading the prayers, &#8220;if your eyes aren&#8217;t on her, you&#8217;re not a man, and if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62606\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-orthodoxy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62606","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=62606"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62613,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62606\/revisions\/62613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}