by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | May 24, 2022 | Op-Eds, Featured Coverage
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, The Jerusalem Post Imagine that a new statute prohibiting larceny was enacted and that people claiming to speak on behalf of the Orthodox rabbinate came out against this new statute designed to curb theft of people’s property, due to the...
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | Apr 12, 2022 | Op-Eds
Last week, in a seminal article of critical importance, Rabbi Leonard Matanky, representing the major Centrist Orthodox organizations in North America, explained how the conversion reforms introduced by Matan Kahana, Minister of Religious Services, would substantially...
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | Oct 1, 2021 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, Israel National News Rashi famously begins his commentary to Sefer Bereshit with the words of a midrash: Rabbi Yitzchak said, “The Torah should have begun with Kiddush Ha-Chodesh (Sanctification of the New Month), which is first mitzvah...
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | Sep 27, 2021 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, Cross Currents Several years ago, I was sitting with an adam gadol – an internationally-renowned rosh yeshiva and posek, who said that he had just privately spoken on the phone with a man who confided that he is attracted to males yet has...
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | Sep 10, 2021 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, Times of Israel The new anti-abortion law in Texas has now become the target not only of the Justice Department, but of non-Orthodox and pseudo-Orthodox Jewish clergy and lay leadership as well. The executive director of JOFA (Jewish...