Author: Avrohom Gordimer

In the absence of the authority to change the law (Halacha), I have no choice but to choose against (following) it. In a clash between humanity and halakha, opt for humanity, and have enough...

With the exception of replying to a few Times of Israel blog articles, I have not written much lately about the issues of the day. The main reason for this is total lack of...

In Women in tents (and maybe in pictures), Mrs. Sarah C. Rudolph critiques my recent blog post reply to Mrs. Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll’s The Rotten State of Orthodoxy. Here is my response to Mrs....

I was a bit surprised to read an Orthodox doctor’s assessment and recommendation for the Orthodox community regarding vaccinations, in Times of Israel. Here is my response, posted in Times of Israel as well....

Shoshana Keats Jaskoll’s Times of Israel blog post, The rotten state of Orthodoxy, has gone viral. I felt that it really demanded a response, and here it is. As with other cross-posted articles, all...

Israeli Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz was recently attacked by non-Orthodox leaders for describing assimilation and intermarriage in the US as a “second Holocaust”. Here is Coalition for Jewish Values’ reaction to the attacks...

My recent Yated article about Young Israel of Toco Hills (YITH) seceding from National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) elicited quite a firestorm on social media, to put it mildly. I would like to briefly address...

This was a somewhat busy week in terms of writing – something I have not really done for a long while. Here is my Times of Israel post about AOC’s concentration camps remarks. Here...

Please click here for the updated OU aged cheese list, and here for an article I wrote in the Jewish Press about the recent gay ordination episode. Wishing everyone a good Yom Tov!  ...

News broke last week that Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT) refused to ordain an openly gay student. The student, Daniel, declared himself gay late into his first year of YCT’s four-year program. Unfazed by Daniel’s...