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...
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | Aug 9, 2021 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer in The Times of Israel Last week, Rabbi Hayim Leiter posted an article that enthusiastically argues for a “quickie” Orthodox conversion of Artem Dolgopyat, the Israeli gold medalist born in Ukraine to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother....
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | May 26, 2021 | Op-Eds
By Rabbi Avraham Gordimer, Yated Ne’eman It was fairly predictable but also quite unpredictable. This best sums up the findings of the just-released Pew Research Center survey entitled “Jewish Americans in 2020,” which polled a broad sampling of 4,718 Americans...
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer | Mar 8, 2021 | Op-Eds
by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer published in INN The recent Israeli Supreme Court ruling affirming citizenship under the Law of Return for those who undergo domestic non-halackhic conversions was roundly condemned by many preeminent Orthodox organizations, including Agudath...