Author of "Embracing Auschwitz" and "Mensch•Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi - Wisdom for Untethered Times." Winner of the Rockower Award, the highest honor in Jewish journalism and 2019 Religion News Association Award for Excellence in Commentary. Musings of a rabbi, journalist, father, husband, poodle-owner, Red Sox fan and self-proclaimed mensch, taken from essays, columns, sermons and thin air. Writes regularly in the New York Jewish Week and Times of Israel.
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Friday, November 8, 2013
Women in Israel: Taking Our Place
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Women of the Wall, this supplement was distributed in newspapers across Israel today. It is part of a special effort the New Israel Find is making to broaden the debate about women's rights and religious pluralism. Too much of the discussion in Israel is dominated by extremists. Their response is to demonstrate the depth of support for the notion that women should be full partners in modern Jewish life.
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