Featured News of 2016

Blady, Rabbi Rebecca. “From Brooklyn to Berlin, With an Eye on the Future.” The New York Jewish Week, 28 December 2016.

Fields, Alec. “B’nai David Changes Morateinu’s Title to Rabbanit.” The Boiling Point, 16 December 2016.

Brawer, Rabba Dina. “New A-Gender: Inviting Women On-Board the Jewish Journey.” Jewish News Online, 28 November 2016.

Sarick, Lila. “New Rabbis, New Challenges.” The Canadian Jewish News, 15 September 2016.

Roth, Phoebe. “A Scholar in the Capital.” The Australian Jewish News, 12 September 2016.

Rocker, Simon. “Pop-Up Pair Launch New Kind of Prayer.” The JC, 8 September 2016.

Kohl Finegold, Maharat Rachel and Cutler, Rabbi Adam. “Is Native Reconciliation a Mitzvah?” The Canadian Jewish News, 15 August 2016.

Keene, Joelle. “Leadership Through Feminine Strength.” The Jewish Journal, 3 August 2016.

Palmer, Joanne. “The Big Book of Women Rabbis Tell a Grand Story.” The Times of Israel, 3 August 2016.

Rosenblatt, Gary. “OU Grapples With Roles of Women in Clergy.” The Jewish Week, 3 August 2016.

Hurwitz, Rabba Sara. “The Torah Imagines a Greenbelt.” The Jewish Week, 2 August 2016.

Silverstein, Barbara. “The ‘Rebbetz-Him’ Is the New Rebbetzin.” The Canadian Jewish News, 7 July 2016.

Hurwitz, Rabba Sara. “When Receiving Smikha Becomes Ritual.” The Times of Israel, 24 June 2016.

Novak, Rabbi Marianne. “Why I Enrolled in Yeshivat Maharat, the Orthodox Seminary for Women Clergy.” My Jewish Learning, 23 June 2016.

Schischa, Rebecca. “The Orthodox Feminist Revolution Has Finally Arrived — In London.” Forward, 21 June 2016.

Herzfeld, Rabbi Shmuel. “What Happened When an Orthodox Jewish Congregation Went to a Gay Bar to Mourn Orlando.” The Washington Post, 15 June 2016.

Adkins, Laura. “One Tenacious Family, Two Inspiring Rabbis.” Forward, 31 May 2016.

“America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis.” Forward, 16 May 2016.

Konigorski, Monika and Brawer, Rabba Dina. “From Rebbetzin to Maharat.” Bet Debora, Spring 2016.

L’Heureux, Catie. “Meet the First Female Orthodox Rabbi.” New York Magazine, 6 April 2016. 

Heilman, Uriel. “Even Orthodox Jews Starting to Wrestle With Transgender Issues.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 5 April 2016.

Moghe, Sonia and Pomrenze, Yon. “Rabbi Lila Kagedan: A History-Making Title in Orthodox Judaism.” CNN, 5 April 2016.

Friedman, Maharat Ruth. “When You’re Facing Infertility, a Synagogue Can Be the Most Painful Place to Go. Let’s Change That.” The Washington Post, 30 March 2016.

“Rabbi Lila Kagedan, First Female Rabbi at Orthodox Shul in Melborne.” The Jewish Press, 21 March 2016. 

Shefa, Shira. “Misogyny ‘Alive and Well,’ Says Rabbinic Pioneer.” Canadian Jewish News, 13 March 2016.

Kemp, Caron. “Special Report: Women in Orthodox Judaism – From Seminary to Semicha.” Jewish News, 10 March 2016.

JNS. “International Women’s Day: This Year’s Newsworthy Jewish Women.” Algemeiner, 8 March 2016.

Matlz, Judy. “Ten Ways Israeli and Jewish Women Cracked the Glass Ceiling this Past Year.” Haaretz, 8 March 2016.

Brawer, Naftali. “Traveling With a Maharat.” The Times of Israel, 24 February 2016.

Epstein, Rabba Yaffa. “I Am an Impostor.” JDOV, 8 February 2016.

Epstein, Rabba Yaffa and Hammer Kossoy, Rabbi Dr. Meesh. “Did Esther and Ruth Break the Glass Ceiling? A Debate.” The Torch, 1 February 2016.

“Re-Imagine” Bat Mitzvahs Urges Leading Orthodox Female Voice.” Jewish News Online, 14 January 2016.

“New Jersey Orthodox Synagogue Hires Woman Who Uses “Rabbi” Title.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 12 January 2016.