Two rabbinical students at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion exchange letters explaining their positions on a policy about whether or not to accept rabbinical students who are intermarried. Should that policy change? “If we’re concerned about the rich Jewishness of a Jewish leader’s home, then we must ask [questions about] identity, not merely whether one’s partner is Jewish? ‘Intermarried’ is no longer a synonym for ‘apathetic.’” … More »
Rabbinic Life Partners: Do They Have to Be Jewish?
April 3, 2013