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Captain Morse also said yesterday that detectives have no suspects in the apparently unrelated theft of two silver crowns from a Torah scroll in Memorial Church on September...
...rabbis, your article says the Conservatives "still lag behind" the Reformed group, which began ordaining women in 1972. As an Orthodox rabbinical student, I feel that it would have been more accurate to say that the Conservatives lag behind the Orthodox, who have preserved the true law of the Torah through the generations and have not yielded to the recent pressure of the secular feminists...
...Kaplan's ideas were viewed as a divisive force by many Orthodox Jews, and in 1945 a panel of Orthodox rabbis issued a religious ban against his Reconstructionist Sabbath Prayer Book, which excised references to the Jews as a chosen people and to the divine revelation of the Torah. His influence was widely felt in the Reform and even Conservative branches of the faith, not least in the perception of the role of women; in 1922 Kaplan introduced the bat mitzvah ceremony for 13-year-old girls, giving them a larger role in religious practices...
When Susannah Heschel was growing up as a rabbi's daughter in New York City, she once attended a Simhat Torah celebration, during which men traditionally dance for joy while holding scrolls of Scripture. She wanted to join the dance, which is forbidden to women, and under the disapproving eyes of many in the crowd, joined her father in the festivities. When asked who had given her permission, Susannah snapped...
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