In recent days there has been much discussion regarding the belief in Torah Min HaShamayim. We maintain that it is necessary not only to assert the centrality of this bedrock principle in broad terms, but also to affirm the specific belief that Moshe received the Torah from God during the sojourn in the wilderness, the Continue Reading »
In light of the recent announcement that Yeshivat Maharat will celebrate the ”ordination as clergy” of its first three graduates, and in response to the institution’s claim that it “is changing the communal landscape by actualizing the potential of Orthodox women as rabbinic leaders,” the Rabbinical Council of America reasserts its position as articulated in Continue Reading »
Whereas the Rabbinical Council of America is the proud home of Orthodoxy; a large tent under which we truly strive to occupy the vast center of mainstream Halachic thought and practice; and Whereas there are individuals and groups on either ideological side of us who do not choose to join us, since they feel that Continue Reading »