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Golinkin: Fair Access to the Kotel

His solution is essentially thus: If the Orthodox get free access to the kotel at all hours, so should the non-Orthodox, at their own [...]

Minimum Number For a Minyan

A Conservative synagogue has the policy that in a pressing need, when a mourner is present and is saying kaddish, that a quorum of 7 is sufficient.  I heard of this policy from an employee at morning minyan and thought to research it.

I first found an Ask the Rabbi that said that there is in [...]

Responsa: The Real Question Is, Why Can’t Women Wear Tefillin?

May Women Wear Tefillin?
David Golinkin

A recent discussion of our question concludes as follows:

In conclusion, women are not permitted under any circumstances to wear tefillin. In view of the fact that the Rema, the authoritative codifier of law for Ashkenazic Jewry and virtually all other authorities, forbid the wearing of tefillin by [...]

Goodbye “Shelo Asani – God didn’t make me a …” Hello “She’asani Yisrael” – “God made me a Yisrael” Rabbi Asher Lopatin

The Aruch HaShulchan (46, yud) like the Bach that rules that if you say She’asani Yisrael, you cannot say the other two negative b’rachot – you would be “stuck” having said just one, positive, B’racha.

The Rosh (Rabeinu Asher) in the back of Masechet B’rachot, upholds the version that we have in Menachot – “She’asani [...]