What you missed over the weekend...JOFAs first blogcast on the topic of mikvah, geirut, and institutional leadership started on Sunday and will be continuing all week! Here are some of our favorite soundbites from the conversation to help you catch up! No crisis has a silver lining, but the sharp reminder to the community that the mitzvah which most frames the existence of the Jewish family is dependent on the peace of mind of each individual Jewish woman is valuable.- Sarah Robinson Jews with advanced degrees in economics will tell me they consulted their rabbi before making a business transaction -- even though the rabbis only expertise is Torah and Talmud. Mark Oppenheimer many Orthodox Jews look to Rabbis for advice in many areas of life. How do we respectfully probe that notion and somehow bring on reform. - Abby Weisz We are a community whose religious conversations are predominately legal. We have mastered observance. Unfortunately, observance is not what Judaism is primarily about. Observance is supposed to be a means, not an end. Rabbi Ysoscher Katz Judaism should not be something that is accessed only through the rabbis. Nor should we encourage a culture of needing to constantly ask the rabbis. - Maharat Rori Picker Neiss Can a person be Orthodox and truly take responsibility for their own decisions, beginning to end? -Carrie Borenstein Most cases where women and rabbis interact create problems of a lack of modesty. This is not connected at all with the case of Rabbi Freundel. It is a problem in and of itself, even when the rabbis act worthily and try to keep to strict standards of human dignity and honesty. Rabbanit Dr. Michal Tikochinsky Catch up on the whole conversation on JOFAs website, and check back often for updates! jofa.org/blogcast
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:53:22 +0000
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