Over time, Hadar’s brand of “traditional egalitarian” study and observance gained adherents and its programs reached a broader class of Jewish laypeople, professionals and educators.
Jerusalemite of the Week: In Jerusalem sat down with Rabbi Benjamin Segal to talk about his half a century in Jerusalem.
A spokesperson for AJU told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the school has no plans to release the report.
Gladys Sturman, who turns 95 at the end of May, now has 27 great-grandchildren. Twenty-one of them are Esther’s grandchildren in Israel.
Shabbat is a weekly infusion of both physical and spiritual delight and rest for the Jewish people, the authors write.
My father, Bernard Dov Troy, of blessed memory
The culture of disapproval did not dissuade individuals from their marriage choices and it certainly did not draw people closer to our communities, instead, too often, it pushed them away.
Rabbi Jonathan Porath is well-known within his activist and conservative circles. For most of us, however, he is an unsung hero of the movement to liberate Soviet Jewry.
"We hope and pray that the vision of the Hebrew prophets shall come to pass, that 'all shall sit under their vine and fig tree, and none shall make them afraid.'"
Schechter Manhattan’s closure means that only one school with roots in the Conservative movement remains in the five boroughs.