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Mar 7, 2019, 7:40 AM

Don’t Unsettle our Community to Settle Debates—A Response to Rabbi Pruzansky

Dear Rabbi Pruzansky, I appreciated your letter to the Jewish Link in which you defended the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County’s passage of a bylaw that would expel the rabbi of Netivot Shalom if he were to continue training female...

Feb 10, 2019, 7:55 AM

An Open Letter to the RCBC

Dear Rabbi Schiowitz, I read your letter to the community on behalf of the RCBC with a profound sense of appreciation and respect. Our community is fortunate to have leaders like you who care about communal unity and harmony. At...

Jan 31, 2019, 7:52 AM

The RCBC decertifies communal debate

It's not (just) about women rabbis -- no synagogue should cede its policy-making and hiring decisions to an external body

Dec 26, 2016, 8:57 PM

America’s Lame Dove

“America abstains” is a rather elegant synopsis of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. Historians have their categorical buzzwords for different phases of American foreign policy. Prior to World War I, America was interventionist. During the 1930’s, America was isolationist. And...

Jul 14, 2016, 7:48 AM

Yeshiva day schools: Give parents a choice

To solve the sky-high cost of Jewish education, offer a part time option with public school covering secular studies

Jun 24, 2016, 10:44 AM

The Yeshiva Day School System — Costs and Considerations

One of the things that I appreciate the most about working with colleagues with backgrounds that are differ from my own -- religiously, ethnically, nationally and politically -- is being able to get an outsider’s perspective on Jewish communal issues. Recently,...

Jan 7, 2016, 10:25 AM

A boy looks down at El Al jets parked on the tarmac of Ben Gurion International Airport (photo credit: Flash90)

Israel is where religion and air travel meet, but not always for the good

Nov 22, 2015, 7:44 AM

Silence of the doves

The usually talkative senators from Ezra Schwartz's state have stayed mum on the murder of their constituent

Nov 15, 2015, 11:21 PM

Women Rabbis: Further Questions and Considerations

Last week, I published an article advocating for women’s ordination and considering a number of arguments that have traditionally been made against women’s ordination. I did so in the hope of promoting substantive dialogue of the issue. Thankfully, a...

Nov 8, 2015, 10:18 PM

Women rabbis: Questions and considerations

A close look at the key arguments against women’s ordination and the case for why they don't hold up

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Yigal M. Gross is an attorney who lives in Teaneck, New Jersey with his wife Tamar Warburg and their children Ella, Sara and Yonatan.