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modern orthodox
How the Jews by choice experience can make us all better Jews
Esther D. Kustanowitz
August 31, 2016
On a psychology test I took in seventh grade, we were asked to define a conversion disorder. Also called “functional neurological symptom disorder,” a conversion disorder is a condition in which a person’s psychological stress manifests as a physical problem.
Conservative and Orthodox shuls share in aid to refugees
Eitan Arom
August 17, 2016
Tyson Roberts bent over a heap of boxes filled with the debris of everyday life — clothing, kitchen supplies, coat hangers; in short, everything one might need to start a new life — all piled into a corner of a downstairs lobby at Temple Beth Am on La Cienega Boulevard.
Modern Orthodox dating gets a close-up in new web series
Jewish Journal
May 24, 2016
“There’s no such thing as a bad date — there’s just a funny story,” says Jessica Schechter, a 28-year-old modern Orthodox woman who teaches acting in New York City and lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
With resolution against hiring women rabbis, RCA votes for confrontation
Jewish Journal
November 3, 2015
When America’s main modern Orthodox rabbinical association voted last week to ban the hiring of clergywomen by its members, the question wasn’t whether to endorse women rabbis.
Rabbinical Council of America officially bans ordination and hiring of women rabbis
Jewish Journal
November 2, 2015
The Rabbinical Council of America, the main modern Orthodox rabbinical group, formally adopted a policy prohibiting the ordination or hiring of women rabbis.
Family legacy continues at Yeshiva, times five: A story of Modern Orthodoxy in America
Simone Wilson
May 29, 2015
Two columns of Yeshiva University graduates — one of young women, in blow-outs and stilettos; and one of young men, the knots of their skinny ties peeking out above their robes — filed into Prudential Center, home arena of the New Jersey Devils, on May 17. They whooped and hooted, smiled in mock surprise, waved to their parents in the stands, pumped fists, blew kisses.
Who foots the bill for freedom?
Jewish Journal
April 2, 2015
The Gordons were a Modern Orthodox family. My parents and I weren’t sure what that meant, except that they “kept the Sabbath” (Where? How?) and knew way more about Judaism than we did.
The rebirth of Running Springs
Jared Sichel
January 28, 2015
Just a few miles south of Lake Arrowhead, in the mountains of the San Bernardino National Forest, sits the small town of Running Springs — its center just a few blocks of touristy gift shops, a hardware store and ski rental outlet, some restaurants, gas stations and motels.
Today my daughter got her first gun
Jewish Journal
January 8, 2015
Today, my daughter got her first gun. In the eighteen years since Ariella’s birth, there have been many things that I have aspired for her but I can honestly say that a gun has not been one of them.
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