Tag: Orthodox Shul

Rabbi Victor Urecki, a Yeshiva University-trained rabbi, is currently serving as a rabbi in a Conservative synagogue, despite his knowledge of Halacha and his conscious decision to reject it.
The author recounts a Supreme Court ruling that allowed a web designer to refuse making wedding websites for same-sex couples, which is followed by a kosher bakery in a nearby town rejecting an order from a synagogue for a Pride Shabbat.
Eve Gordon-Ramek, a Jewish woman from California, grew up in an active Jewish household and was encouraged by her father to maintain Jewish traditions and not assimilate.
The author recounts her experience going through both a civil and a Jewish divorce within a year and a half of marriage.