Archive for July, 2008
« Previous EntriesOut of Orthodoxy - Why This Former Orthodox Rabbi Will Officiate at Interfaith Weddings
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Many might ask, even accuse, how can I, a rabbi, who once was Orthodox, who served an Orthodox congregation, and at the helm of Orthodox educational institutions, be willing, nay eager, to help interfaith couples and (co)officiate at their weddings?
Let me open with a family story. I remember a discussion my grandmother had with my […]
Out of Orthodoxy – From Orthodox Rabbi to Secular Humanist
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Beyond that, the Documentary Hypothesis, the theory that the Torah is the product of a 6th-5th Century B.C.E. redaction of four (main and a few other minor) sources written during the 9th-6th Centuries B.C.E., is pretty much iron clad. The only serious opposition, very unconvincing in my eyes, is from those scholars on the left […]
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