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Two Approaches to Women’s Issues
R. Shmuel Goldin’s latest book on the Torah, Unlocking the Torah Text: An In-Depth Journey Into the Parsha on Vayikra, was just published by Gefen and OU Press (I work for the latter). (more…)
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What Time Should the Seder Finish?
Guest post by Rabbi Daniel Roselaar
For many years I was always careful to eat the afikoman by chatzot [midnight, 1am with daylight savings] on Seder night, (more…)
Weekly Links
Rules: link (Note that this post will move every day until the end of the week)
Thursday
- SALT today: link
- David Greenfield’s win – was it frustration with Jewish institutional leadership?: link
- Archeologists dig up controversy in Jerusalem: link
- Catholics interrupt rabbi at Notre Dame Cathedral: link
- Bartons Returns for Pesach: link
- Lost segment of Jerusalem Talmud unearthed in Geneva: link
- Thoroughly modern matzah: link
- Haggadah reviews: I, II, III
Can a Woman Serve as a Synagogue Rabbi?
Here is the question I sent to R. Shlomo Aviner and the response he sent back. Sorry but I don’t have the time to translate into English. Hopefully a reader will take the initiative in the comments section:
Waiting for Mashiach II
I. Three Views
Do we have to believe that Mashiach can come any time? There are three positions that I have seen about this, that we must believe that: (more…)
Erev Pesach & The Fast of the Firstborn
By: Rabbi Ari Enkin
It is customary[1] for all firstborn males to fast on Erev Pesach in order to recall the tenth and final plague which God inflicted upon Egypt – the death of the firstborn.[2] (more…)