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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 628

Yeshivat Maharat

Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter, of the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, lights a menorah during a public Hanukkah celebration and menorah lighting ceremony in South Philadelphia, on Sunday, December 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Ryan Collerd)
December 19, 2021, 3:32 am
Orthodox Jewish women’s leadership is growing – and it’s not all about rabbis
Roles for women are growing and changing rapidly, with many serving as guides to Jewish law, professionally trained rabbis’ wives and congregational scholars
By Michal Raucher
Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz speaks at the annual Greenbelt arts, faith, and justice festival in the UK in 2016. (YouTube)
From the WebJuly 6, 2021, 11:39 pm
UK Jewish school reinstates female lecturer fired over rabbinical ordination
Chief rabbi’s London School of Jewish Studies restores Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz to her position, Jewish News reports; she was dismissed last month for gaining title at NY yeshiva
Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz speaks at the annual Greenbelt arts, faith, and justice festival in the UK in 2016. (YouTube)
June 17, 2021, 3:57 pm
UK teacher dropped by Orthodox school after she receives rabbinical ordination
Statement from Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis says Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz ‘stepped beyond the boundaries of mainstream Orthodoxy’
By Jenni Frazer
Rabbanit Jenna Englender dances with the Torah during her graduation ceremony from Yeshivat Maharat in New York, June 17, 2019. (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/Maharat/via JTA)
December 15, 2020, 3:05 am
How a Bechdel test for Jewish texts is shaking up the beit midrash
A grassroots movement to include female authorities in Torah classes is gaining steam, though women’s historic disadvantage in the area means finding creative solutions
By Shira Hanau
Rabbanit Jenna Englender dances with the Torah during her graduation ceremony from Yeshivat Maharat in New York, June 17, 2019. (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/Maharat/via JTA)
December 22, 2019, 8:54 am
10 years after launch of first yeshiva for women clergy, has anything changed?
32 of the 33 graduates of the Orthodox Yeshivat Maharat have jobs, but though some liberal synagogues will give them pulpit positions they still can’t count toward a prayer quorum
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative: Jewish Orthodox women study Talmud at Kibbutz of Migdal Oz religious study seminary on May 23, 2013. (FLASH90 / Gershon Elinson)
December 12, 2019, 12:47 pm
Talmud study is mostly a boys’ club. This Orthodox woman wants to change that
Michelle Farber has taught her all-female class a page a day for the last 7 1/2 years as part of the Daf Yomi cycle, and on Jan. 5 will host first major women’s completion ceremony
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Yeshivat Maharat students attend a graduation ceremony in New York, June 17, 2019. (Shulamit Seidler-Feller/Yeshivat Maharat via JTA)
November 8, 2019, 12:52 pm
New program pays Orthodox synagogues to hire female spiritual leaders
Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance offering grants of up to $10,000 a year to synagogues that hire women for newly created positions
By JTA
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot and Marianne Novak. (Courtesy of the Jewish Standard/via JTA)
February 12, 2019, 2:52 pm
In NJ, Orthodox rabbis vote to bar a colleague for training female clergy
New RCBC bylaws do not allow as members leaders of congregations that let women hold rabbinic positions or internships that are part of ordination programs
By Larry Yudelson
Britain's first Orthodox female rabbi, Dina Brawer (Screen capture: YouTube)
May 10, 2018, 6:14 pm
Britain’s first Orthodox female rabbi is ordained
Dina Brawer, who founded UK’s Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, receives semicha in London from Rabbi Daniel Sperber
By JTA
Maharat Ruth Friedman with the manager of Khepra’s Raw Food Juice Bar, a vegan restaurant she and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld recently certified kosher. (Courtesy of Friedman/via JTA)
April 25, 2018, 4:40 am
How Washington, DC got a bunch of new kosher restaurants
Maharat Ruth Friedman and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld are providing supervision at five local vegan joints — but one rabbi threatens to boycott them unless Friedman steps down
By Ben Sales
Ohev Sholom synagogue's Ruth Friedman. (YouTube screenshot)
February 1, 2018, 5:54 am
Orthodox Union won’t penalize synagogues that already have women clergy
But the organization reaffirms its decision prohibiting other shuls from hiring women in rabbinic positions
By Ben Sales
November 16, 2017, 11:38 pm
Spiritual leader at NY Orthodox community says she’s no ‘bra-burning feminist’
Through sharing her love affair with Yiddishkeit, Israeli-born Michal Kohane is driving Modern Orthodoxy to new levels of equality
By Cathryn J. Prince
Michal Kohane. (Courtesy)
September 6, 2017, 3:23 am
Brooklyn Orthodox synagogue hires woman as spiritual leader
Michal Kohane will serve as Rosh Kehila, or ‘head of the community,’ for the Prospect Heights Shul
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
Yeshivat Maharat graduates at their ordination ceremony at Ramaz High School in New York City, June 16, 2013 (photo credit: Joe Winkler/JTA)
May 20, 2017, 2:45 am
Orthodox Union asks women clergy to change their titles
Move follows February ruling by umbrella group that bars females from serving in positions of spiritual authority
By Ben Sales
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