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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah

Nadiv Schorer, right, married Ariel Meiri in 2020 with Orthodox rabbi Avram Mlotek officiating. (David Perlman Photography via JTA)
November 6, 2020, 12:45 am
Small but growing number of US Orthodox rabbis officiating same-sex weddings
They’re breaking ranks to perform ceremonies unthinkable until recently in the Orthodox Jewish world
By Josefin Dolsten
Rabbi Avram Mlotek, center, performs his first same-sex wedding, February 2020. (Courtesy of Mlotek via JTA)
February 20, 2020, 8:48 am
After endorsing same-sex marriages, a US Orthodox rabbi performs his first
Avram Mlotek says ceremony joining two men ‘in sacred, covenantal relationship’ was ‘joyous, Jewish, spiritual, full of love,’ similar to other events he has officiated at
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Newly ordained Rabbi Daniel Atwood is congratulated by Rabbi Daniel Landes at the Jerusalem Theater, on May 26, 2019. (Sam Sokol/JTA)
May 27, 2019, 7:59 pm
First openly gay Orthodox rabbi ordained in Jerusalem
Denied ordination from New York’s Yeshivat Chovevei Torah after becoming engaged to a man, Daniel Atwood receives it in Israel’s capital
By Sam Sokol
Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies director Rabbi Daniel Landes. (photo credit: courtesy)
May 25, 2019, 12:47 am
Jerusalem rabbi to ordain gay rabbinical student denied by US seminary
Progressive rabbi says he will ordain Daniel Atwood, previously rejected by New York yeshiva, saying he can aid LGBTQ Orthodox community
By Sam Sokol
Rabbi Avi Weiss, center, the founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, said the decision to deny ordination to a gay student pained him but he agreed with it. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images via JTA)
April 6, 2019, 3:18 am
Liberal NY Orthodox yeshiva stands by decision to deny ordination to gay student
Decision to reject candidate, six months after his public engagement to another man, sparks backlash from community as it tries to welcome LGBTQ Jews
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: A class at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York. (Courtesy of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah via JTA)
April 3, 2019, 4:17 am
Liberal NY Orthodox yeshiva says it will not ordain its first gay rabbi
Daniel Atwood says Yeshivat Chovevei Torah has known he was gay since he began studies four years ago and is now backtracking; school acknowledges situation handled badly
By Shira Hanau
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, located at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York. (Courtesy, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah/JTA)
May 28, 2018, 8:34 pm
Rabbinate official appears to blacklist alumni of liberal Orthodox yeshiva
Rabbi Asher Ehrentreu rejects proof-of-Judaism letter from graduates of New York’s Chovevei Torah; Rabbinate denies claim it’s a matter of policy
By Marissa Newman
GatherDC is hosting a Yom Kippur event at the Sauf Haus Bier Hall & Garten in Washington. (Courtesy of Sauf Haus Bier Hall & Garten/via JTA)
September 29, 2017, 4:37 pm
Hundreds of DC Jews plan to spend Yom Kippur in a beer garden
No food or beverages will be served at this alternative venue, which will be hosting a Day of Atonement learning session geared towards the fringe
By Josefin Dolsten
Rabbi Asher Lopatin at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in Riverdale, New York (Michael Datikash)
September 2, 2017, 5:23 am
President of NY liberal Orthodox yeshiva to step down
Rabbi Asher Lopatin leaving Yeshivat Chovevei Torah at end of new academic year
By JTA
Rabbi Adam Scheier, the senior rabbi at Canada's oldest traditional Ashkenazi synagogue, Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, and a member of the Israeli rabbinate's 'blacklist.' (courtesy)
July 11, 2017, 12:54 pm
A blacklisted Diaspora rabbi is pleased to find himself in good company
Adam Scheier, rabbi of Leonard Cohen’s Orthodox Montreal synagogue, says the issue is not getting himself off the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s list, but that there is a list at all
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
View of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, June 23, 2017 (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
July 11, 2017, 1:01 am
US Orthodox leaders dance around the Western Wall crisis
The deal to construct a pluralistic prayer platform was always complicated for Diaspora Orthodoxy, but the move to freeze the plan is even more perplexing
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Jeffrey Woolf
June 18, 2017, 2:10 pm
Jeffrey Woolf
The intermarriage wars
Conservative Judaism is losing its last deference to Torah, and the same impulse is burning at the edges of Orthodoxy
Rabbi Avram Mlotek (YouTube screenshot)
June 17, 2017, 10:17 am
Liberal Orthodox seminary reiterates opposition to intermarriage
Statement comes after Chovevei Torah graduate Rabbi Avram Mlotek advocated in an op-ed for a welcoming attitude to intermarried couples
By JTA
Chai Posner
July 27, 2016, 11:55 am
Chai Posner
New liberal Orthodox rabbis speak out
Recent Chovevei Torah graduates uphold traditional viewpoints about divine authorship and partnership minyanim
Rabbi Avi Weiss during a memorial service on June 17, 2014, outside the UN in New York, for the three Israeli teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank. (AP/John Minchillo)
June 29, 2015, 11:20 pm
In protest, Avi Weiss quits Rabbinical Council of America
Religious leader indignant at organization for refusing membership to students of his seminary
By JTA
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