In 1974, as a first-year rabbinic student at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, I joined several of my classmates who were going to the Kotel for Simchat Torah. What an opportunity, I thought, to rejoice with the Torah in Judaism’s most sacred place! As we walked to the Kotel plaza, my classmates turned … More »
Barring Women, Transforming Stones Into Idols
October 1, 2013