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This was the message that was presented to our congregants. Somehow, "railing" seems to be less than an appropriate description. Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Director, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Rabbinic Advisor to the Conservative Minyan Rabbi Avi Weinstein Rabbinic Advisor to the Orthodox Minyan Rabbi Sally Finestone Associate Director, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Rabbinic Advisor to the Reform Minyan...
Jewish authorities hold that a Jew who adopts Christianity - or any other religion - is a meshummad (apostate), a grievous sinner who incurs various penalties. He may not be a witness in a Jewish legal proceeding or count in the minyan, or quorum for prayer. He remains technically a Jew, however, since the Talmud says that "a Jew who sins is still...
...traditional Judaism, a service can be held without a rabbi but not without a minyan (congregation) often men aged 13 or over. In emergencies nine men and a young boy will do; women have not counted at all. The liberal Reform branch of Judaism has no such sex rule, and last week the middle-of-the-road Conservative branch announced that it too was abandoning the tradition. The 9-4 vote by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards is a natural outgrowth of the Conservative branch's earlier move to provide religious education for women, and of those...
...quorum for a religious service (minyan) is ten men, and-except among Reconstructionist Jews, who hold men and women equal-no number of women can make up for one absent man. In Orthodox synagogues, women are seated separately, and in Jerusalem they must worship separately at the Wailing Wall. Though women in Israel have fully equal secular rights and are even subject to compulsory military service, Orthodox control of such social institutions as marriage clearly favors the man. In the strict interpretation of the law, for instance, only a husband can grant a divorce. The Orthodox male attitude is perhaps...
...tweeds and attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital. The old Jew scandalizes their skeptical liberalism by insisting on removal to the bathroom of a crucifix that hangs on the wall. Later, a man who had refused to make one of the minyan (sacramental quorum) jeeringly sells his "chance in the world-to-come" for a nickel. But Himmelfarb's stubborn faith has confounded him, and now, it seems, he would like his nickel back. It is a nice story, and Fiedler, who is on the editorial board of Ramparts...