Listen as writer Abigail Pogrebin (author of My Jewish Year) and Rabbi Dov Linzer (head of
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah) try to work out whether 'pulling the wool over someone's eyes' can ever really be a moral act.
"The Joy of Text" is cohosted by Rabbi Dov Linzer of the
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School and sex therapist Dr.
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, DanielRGoodmanEsq@gmail.com
He has also served as the Meorot Fellow at
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and a member of the community kollel at the Fleetwood Synagogue in Mount Vernon NY.
Two of the training sessions took place at rabbinical schools; one at New York City's Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative movement's rabbinical school; and one at
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, the Open Orthodox rabbinical school in the Bronx.
Avi Weiss is the founder of
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat, and co-founder of the International Rabbinic Fellowship, a Modern and Open Orthodox rabbinic organization.
A petition at change.org, calling on Whole Foods and the conference center Esalen to dissociate from Gafni, has garnered nearly 2,500 signatories from across the spectrum of Jewish observance, including Orthodox rabbinic luminary Saul Berman; author Joseph Telushkin; Jill Jacobs, head of T'ruah, The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights; Sharon Kleinbaum, rabbi of the LGBT-oriented Congregation Beit Simchat Torah; and leaders of Orthodox seminary
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, transdenominational Hebrew College, and Renewal association ALEPH.
Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, lawyer, and a rabbinical student at
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT) in New York.
to drown out the extremists' distorted message." He was joined by Orthodox Rabbi Dov Linzer, dean of
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in the River-dale section of the Bronx, who wrote a similar condemnation of extremist behavior in a January op-ed in The New York Times, entitled "Lechery, Immodesty and the Talmud."
Since the founding of
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT), and some years later, Yeshivat Maharat (YM), I and others have been asked whether we are creating a new movement within Orthodoxy.
"I love summer camp because it's like a two-week sleepover party where I'm the most important person in the world," said Cara Lopatin, the 11-year-old daughter of Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the newly installed president of
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in Riverdale, N.Y.