Another Look at Partnership Minyanim Rabbi Dr. Alan Kimche The Partnership Minyan permits women to lead parts of the tefilla service, to read from the Torah, to carry it and to get an Aliyah. The women who attend are often uplifted by the experience. All this, and it’s still Orthodox! Is this possibly one of...
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LET’S BE HONEST ABOUT LIMMUD Rabbi Dr. Alan Kimche By all accounts Limmud is an amazing experience. It’s a residential learning experience for over 2000 participants enjoying a week in the winter which is warm and friendly, interesting and engaging, non-judgemental, open minded, feel-good and politically-correct, -it’s clearly all this and more. But there’s one...
Switching on a dishwashers on Shabbat involves the issur melacha of both ‘havarah’ -creating a fire, and ‘bishul’ – cooking the water. The first question which raises interesting issues is the use of a time switch which is set before Shabbat that will operate it on Shabbat. what are the halachic issues involved in this? Firstly there is...
Rabbi Kimche is the Rav of the Ner Yisrael community in Hendon. London UK