Last week the Forward published an article on the legality of the way that most synagogues search for rabbis. While the writer was speaking about his experience on the search committee for a Conservative synagogue, it is clear that it is not movement specific. The inescapable conclusion is that the RA’s practices are illegal, and [...]
ADDeRabbi posted some comments on Melvin Urofsky’s book Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. As a follow-up, here is a fascinating video of a lecture by Richard Polenberg, the author of The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process, titled “Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo: Judaism and the Crisis of the 1930s.” (hat [...]
Haviv Retting Gur has a number of good posts about some of the biased and ignorance based fawning over Shlomo Sand’s new book. Gur’s posts address the bureaucratic and legal side of marriage in Israel, and while not denying that there are many problems, argues that there are a number of factors which are responsible [...]
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