Weekly Links

Rules: link (Note that this post will move every day until the end of the week. 3 most recent links show on the home page.)

Friday

Iraq demands return of its Jewish archive: link

Committee approves Jewish Agency move to refocus on Jewish identity: link

Buying blue and white: link

Haviva Ner-David: Marry privately and don't register with the state: link

Donating blood - every drop counts: link

SALT today: link

Thursday

• Female rabbis banned, with loophole: link
• The Ambition Of Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm (1981 article): link
• Rabbis say no to women rabbas: link
• Report from third Independent Minyan Conference: link
• Rabbi's pitch to pope: Use family dinners to defuse abuse crisis: link
• The dirty truth about Orthodox women rabbis: link
• iPad Torah scroll: link
• Quit intimidating Israel's friends: link
• New book stirs controversy about British chief rabbi: link
• Life sentence is debated for meat plant ex-chief: link
• SALT today: link

Wednesday

• RCA finds consensus for deepening women’s roles: link
• Full audio of RCA conference call for media: link
• R. Yitzchok Adlerstein: The day the RCA became Agudah: link
• A tradition-based ‘No’ to Orthodox female rabbis: link
• RCA post-convention release: no women rabbis: link
• RCA's resolutions on women's leadership could prove chilling: link
• Orthodox rabbis weigh in on professional roles for women: link
• Rabbinical Council of America: No Female Rabbis, by Any Name: link
• RCA issues weak consensus on women’s ordination, avoids condemning Avi Weiss: link
• RCA resolution says women can’t be ordained as rabbis: link
• SALT today: link

Tuesday

• Gedolim sign letter against worms in fish: link
• R. Yitzchok Adlerstein: Let’s not institutionalize mediocrity: link
• School choice and the limits of liberal Jewish compassion: link
• Positively Jewish: Great Britain's chief rabbi calls for a Judaism unafraid to engage with the world: link
• Marine Park yeshiva ain’t kosher: link
• Rabbinate torn between state, halacha: link
• SALT today: link

Monday

• Another perspective on the campaign for leniency on Rubashkin: link
• After Madoff, AJC looks for merger: link
• NYT on Jewish Review of Books: link
• Hershel Herskowitz Challenges the Lakewood Machine: link
• R. Yitzchok Adlerstein: Of Rabas and Maharats: link
• Shira Schmidt: Gender Agenda of the RCA: link
• SALT today: link