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Women study at the Ohr Torah Stone Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership in Jerusalem on November 22, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
December 15, 2022, 7:01 am
In first, women take official Jewish law tests, but activists say it isn’t enough
For now, the state-issued exams represent a purely symbolic victory, granting female Torah scholars formal recognition with no practical significance
By Judah Ari Gross
The 12 graduates of a program to train kosher slaughterers in Ethiopia so the Jewish community can have regular access to kosher meat, along with a rabbi from Israel who works with the community (center), in November 2022. (Ohr Torah Stone)
November 30, 2022, 3:28 pm
12 men trained in Ethiopia as kosher meat slaughterers in first for the country
Until now Jews in Ethiopia could only get kosher meat around the holidays when ‘shochtim’ would be flown in; a recent initiative by a Modern Orthodox group worked to change that
By Judah Ari Gross
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