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Chamutal Shoval
March 21, 2018, 1:55 pm
Chamutal Shoval
The Rabbinate won’t let me take its exams
By not letting us female students of Shabbat, kashrut, and more establish our expertise, the rabbis quash the Torah
Leora Ezrachi-Vered (Avi Nave)
November 15, 2017, 2:06 pm
Ordination of 100th Israeli Reform rabbi keeps a daughter in the family business
Fledgling Rabbi Leora Ezrachi-Vered has big shoes to fill as a female spiritual leader of an Israeli congregation — her mother, Rabbi Naamah Kelman’s
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Father-and-son rabbinical team Alvin, left, and Sam Reinstein will receive semicha on the same day, a first for New York's Yeshiva University. (Courtesy of Moshe Bressler)
From the WebMarch 14, 2017, 11:59 am
Father and son receive YU rabbinical ordination on same day
The New York Jewish Week: It’s no ordinary ordination for the Reinstein rabbis
At the ordination ceremony for the first cohort of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis, Rabba Noga Brenner Samia accepts her certificate from Rabbi Donniel Hartman of the Shalom Hartman Center and Dr. Moti Zeira, CEO of HaMidrasha at Oranim on September 20, 2016. (Netanel Tobias)
September 23, 2016, 3:12 pm
Jerusalem ordination of secular Jews seeks to ‘redeem’ the word ‘rabbi’
Egalitarian and pluralistic, the first cohort of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis is set to lead Israelis in the promised land on their own terms
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Sara Hurwitz
June 24, 2016, 1:56 pm
Sara Hurwitz
A clear, credentialed path for women
As recently as 7 years ago, the landscape for female Jewish leaders was lonely; no more, thanks to Yeshivat Maharat
Rabbi Daniel Landes, center, surrounded by his students at a June 7, 2016, private ordination ceremony in Jerusalem. (Naama Marinberg)
June 9, 2016, 8:56 pm
‘Post-denominational’ Orthodoxy gains new leadership in historic ordination
A Jerusalem ceremony for 21 male and female students of modern Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Landes celebrates their alt-neu role in halacha while pushing the egalitarian envelope
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Four fresh rabbis ordained in June 2015 by Har'el Beit Midrash. From left: Rabbis Rahel Berkovits, Meesh Hammer-Kossoy, Lev Eliezer Israel, and Ariel Evan Mayse. (Sigal Krimolovski)
June 11, 2015, 2:22 pm
At Orthodox women’s ordination, preaching a halacha of compassion
Head of new Jerusalem co-ed smicha program says ordaining women rabbis is ‘just the normal thing to do.’ But is Modern Orthodoxy ripe for such a radical step?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Ten fresh British Orthodox rabbis (photo credit: courtesy)
July 11, 2013, 3:32 pm
Record number of rabbis ordained in UK this week
Ten Orthodox and three Progressive rabbis receive semicha in separate London ceremonies
Avi Weiss
June 18, 2013, 8:38 am
Avi Weiss
A journey to women’s spiritual leadership
On the halachik, historic and ethical rationale for orthodox ordination of women
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