Comments on: Learning from Hillel and Shami

By: Mr. Cohen

Mr. Cohen — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:54:58 +0000

In recent decades, every Jewish movement that accepted female Rabbis (Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, etc) eventually also accepted so-called “gay rabbis” and so-called “lesbian rabbis.”

I predict that because YCT and Morethodoxy have accepted Rabba Sara Hurwitz, they will eventually also accepted so-called “gay rabbis” and so-called “lesbian rabbis.”

It may take 25 years, 40 years or 70 years, but it will eventually happen; mark my words!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:33:51 +0000

Does your tolerance of all Jews include tolerance of the position that Torah was not Divine,authored by the Almighty and handed to Moses on Sinai ALONG with the written Torah?

By: Garnel Ironheart

Garnel Ironheart — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 06:21:34 +0000

> that of traditional prayer architecture and process on the one hand and that of the desire by the halacha to honor and include all Jews

While I have no interest in defending the Yated, I would point out that the impression I (and others) got from Rabbi Farber’s article was that there was a tension between traditional prayer architecture and feminist egalitarianism, not any halachic desire seeing the extent that halacha goes to in differentiating between the sexes, not trying to minimize or blur the difference between them.