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Oct 10, 2013, 9:49 PM

Community Orthodoxy and Chovevei Torah: A Rejoinder to R. Avi Shafran

R. Avi Shafran has written a new piece attacking Yeshivat Chovevei Torah ( It does not contain much new material, and his points have been well answered in the past by myself and others. However, he begins with a...

Oct 2, 2013, 3:01 AM

Community Orthodoxy and Chovevei Torah

My yeshiva, Chovevei Torah, is about to install Rabbi Asher Lopatin as its new President. The ceremony will feature a panel on rabbinic training which will include some very insightful and experienced non-Orthodox educators, including Arnold Eisen of the...

Jul 31, 2013, 1:37 PM

British Jewry Needs More Montefiore

I will admit I was a skeptic. When the trustees of the Montefiore Endowment announced in 2006 that they were opening a part time rabbinic ordination program I was unsure whether it could succeed, either to attract students of...

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Ben Elton is a student at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and Rabbinic Intern at the Lincoln Square Synagogue.