A New Blog for New Voices

By Ben Sales June 1, 2009

Welcome to the future. We may not have flying cars or a baller Starship Enterprise to battle aliens but as of today, the New Voices blog will be taking its content to the next level. Now, when you visit our site, you’ll find new blog posts every day by a group of writers from around the…

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Orthodox Women to be Trained as Sort of-Almost-Maybe Rabbis?

By paulasass June 1, 2009

In March, Rabbi Avi Weiss, the founder and president of a liberal Orthodox rabbinical school, effectively ordained Sara Hurwitz as the first female Orthodox rabbi- but without giving her the title of “rabbi.”  Though her course of study was the same as that of the men in the rabbinical school founded by Weiss, it was…

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