Rabbi Elyashiv, leading halachic authority, in grave condition
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, considered this generation\’s leading halachic authority, is in critical condition.
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, considered this generation\’s leading halachic authority, is in critical condition.
The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) announced this month that Eisen, 54, the chair of Stanford University\’s religious studies program, would become just the second nonrabbi to serve as the New York City seminary\’s chancellor and the first since 1940. He succeeds Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, who held the post for two decades.
The conscience of the Jewish state has spoken through the recent landmark ruling of Israel\’s Supreme Court. It has taken an important step toward removing the pariah stigma from tens of thousands of Jews who converted to Judaism by the rabbinic authority of non-Orthodox rabbis, but ignored by the Jewish state.
Brenner, a 57-year-old New York-born social worker, Reform Jew and feminist, is at the epicenter of the latest halachic earthquake shaking Israel. Her downstairs neighbor is Dov Dumbrovich, the Orthodox chairman of the local religious council, who is defying a Supreme Court ruling and refusing to let her take her seat on the council.