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...slightly differing opinions handed down by Conservatism?s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards favored maintaining the branch?s official position forbidding homosexuality. But a third, contradictory opinion, affirmed both gay unions and ordination. And all it took was one out of three to change Conservative history: any rabbi is now free to perform such a union and any seminary to make such a rabbi...
...RABBI) BRAD HIRSCHFIELD VICE PRESIDENT CLAL-THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP New York City...
...residents] don’t have money. They don’t have power. They don’t have a voice,” said Kelly L. Lee ’07, who attended the protest.Ricardo Sanchez, a board member of the Charlesview Residents’ Organization, criticized Rabbi Abraham Halbfinger, chair of the Board of Directors, who told The Crimson last week that Charlesview residents “were very much in favor” of the land swap.“I find it disappointing that ‘people of the cloth’ are saying...
...think the major item is the fact that there is 6.5 acres rather than five acres,” said Board Chair Rabbi Abraham Halbfinger, who leads one of the synagogues that administers Charlesview. “I think this has made a major change in the proposal and made us look at it a lot differently...
...Adam to Noah to Moses to Jesus to Muhammad,” he says. “There’s a sense that it’s the same strand, the same spirit, the same idea, really the same religion that has been passed along.”Rabbi Avi Poupko of Harvard Hillel says Abraham is one of the most influential figures in the Jewish faith. “He’s the first Israelite, the one who started everything,” Poupko says.Poupko says that the project appears to draw on a distinctly Christian tradition...