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December 15, 2020, 3:05 am
How a Bechdel test for Jewish texts is shaking up the beit midrash
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Weiss’ school was launched in 1999 as a more liberal alternative to YU’s rabbinical school and has encountered some opposition among more conservative elements in the Orthodox world
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