Avrohom Gordimer, at The Blogs

May 4, 2023, 10:52 PM

Response to Steven Greenberg’s ‘Am I an abomination?’

Steven Greenberg’s Am I an abomination? An Orthodox publisher speaks to gay teens is highly problematic on multiple levels. Predicated on concepts that undermine and misrepresent the Torah, this blogpost essentially gaslights normative, traditional Torah values and seeks to create a...

Apr 26, 2022, 12:06 AM

Orthodox Jews and Right-Wing Politics

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump, center, accompanied by from left, U.S. special envoy for Iran Brian Hook, Avraham Berkowitz, Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, President Donald Trump's White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, sits in front of documents in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. The agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to establish full diplomatic ties comes as little surprise to those closely following the nuances of Middle East politics, and Trump administrationâ€™s almost single-minded push to broker a deal of this kind without a resolution first to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

In Why the ‘Libs of TikTok’ founder’s Jewish identity was fair game, Andrew Silow-Carroll argues that identifying a heretofore-anonymous popular right-wing Twitter account holder as an Orthodox Jewish woman was quite justified, for such identification is relevant to the connection...

Apr 12, 2022, 8:06 AM

Conversion Reform – The Pseudo-Orthodox Approach

Conversion at rabbinic court - Times of Israel photo

Last week, in a seminal article of critical importance, Rabbi Leonard Matanky, representing the major Centrist Orthodox organizations in North America, explained how the conversion reforms introduced by Matan Kahana, Minister of Religious Services, would substantially jeopardize Orthodox/halachic conversion...

Jan 17, 2022, 9:41 AM

Rabbi Farber: Do not use the Colleyville hostage episode for your agenda

Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau (L) attend a New Year's ceremony of the Israel Police Command at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 7, 2015. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

I was outraged and disgusted. This article is going to be very blunt. I cannot help it and I must speak the truth. A mere few hours after the incredible horror of a terrorist holding four Jews hostage at Congregation...

Sep 10, 2021, 11:20 PM

Sorry, liberal Jewish leaders – Judaism is not pro-abortion

The new anti-abortion law in Texas has now become the target not only of the Justice Department, but of non-Orthodox and pseudo-Orthodox Jewish clergy and lay leadership as well. The executive director of JOFA (Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance) issued...

Aug 9, 2021, 6:23 PM

The Truth About Conversion for Artem Dolgopyat

Artem Dolgopyat - Times of Israeli photo

Last week, Rabbi Hayim Leiter posted an article that enthusiastically argues for a "quickie" Orthodox conversion of Artem Dolgopyat, the Israeli gold medalist born in Ukraine to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. Rabbi Leiter explains: When someone like...

Jul 12, 2021, 10:55 AM

Chief Rabbis and Women: A Rebuttal to Rabbi Jeremy Rosen

Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz (Times of Israel)

We recently read about UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis' opposition to London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) retaining as a research fellow Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz - a woman who was ordained last month by the Open Orthodox Yeshivat Maharat seminary...

Mar 8, 2020, 8:01 AM

Rabbi Mike Moskowitz: Enough Already

Juden beim Talmudstudium Paris. (Wikimedia Commons)

In Homophobia is the Real Abomination, Rabbi Mike Moskowitz painfully distorts biblical verses and denies crystal clear halachic rules so as to effectively justify homosexual activity and gay pride, while labeling critics as “homophobes.” Moskowitz then conflates having homosexual...

Dec 4, 2019, 11:32 PM

Modern Orthodoxy’s Defining Moment

“Modern Orthodoxy is in trouble… Where is Modern Orthodoxy headed?… Is Modern Orthodoxy going to split?“ These questions, prompted by the new Nishma Research study entitled The Successes, Challenges, and Future of American Modern Orthodoxy and by ground-level experiences of disappointment with the...

Aug 9, 2019, 8:32 AM

Women of the Tents — Women Who Truly Achieve

In Women in tents (and maybe in pictures), Mrs. Sarah C. Rudolph revisits the biblical verses and interpretations I cited in my recent blog post, and basically attempts to work around my statement that: the traditional Torah attitude… has been...

About Me

Rabbi Gordimer is a kashruth professional, Chairman of the Rabbinic Circle at Coalition for Jewish Values, a member of the Rabbinical Council of America, and a member of the New York Bar.