Ask Mimi Feigelson a simple question, you don\’t get a simple answer. \”So how do you like L.A.?\” I ask, as we sit down for coffee and pastries at a Pico-Robertson cafe, thinking this is just the warm-up for the real questions.
The Religious Women\’s Forum grappled with subjects that ranged from the role of women in the synagogue to the difficulties in obtaining divorces.
I see that it\’s time for the media to replay the perennial horror story known as The Dying Jew. \”The Vanishing Jew,\” by Alan Dershowitz, is a mea culpa over his son\’s intermarriage.
The second International Conference onOrthodoxy and Feminism was held at New York\’s Grand Hyatt Hotel overPresidents Day weekend.
There was noquestion: Of the three rabbis sitting up on the dais at UCLA Hillel,Rabbi Shlomo Riskin had the toughest sell.
\nIn Rabbi Michael Katz\’s office at Cal State Northridge Hillel hanga \”Star Trek\” poster and a picture of Binyamin Netanyahu. There\’salso a futon — not your basic college-issue office furniture.
The time has come to educate women and give them the titular and legal authority to right that which has gone so terribly wrong in the Orthodox world
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