Masorti Judaism condemns the Israeli government’s decisions to cancel arrangements for egalitarian prayer at the Kotel and to give the ultra-Orthodox chief rabbinate a monopoly over conversion to Judaism. Last Sunday,...
Don’t present mitzvah as all or nothing, take it or leave it, black or white. On this as on other essential matters, Conservative Judaism ordains a balance that seems exactly right to me. My predecessor as chancellor of JTS,...
Is Halakhah Binding No Matter What? The beginning of this week’s parashah presents the description of the red heifer ritual. In a nutshell, a perfectly unblemished red heifer must be killed, certain rituals performed with...
