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(From left) Rotem Greenberg, Claire Nemhauser, Rabbi Michael Walden and Brandon Kessel at the Maimonides Moot Court Competition in New York. (Photo/Courtesy Walden)
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Why I took a group of Reform teens to a Jewish law debate in New York

by Rabbi Michael Walden May 29, 2024

This spring, three liberal Jewish teens from my Los Gatos Reform congregation spent a weekend in New York debating Jewish law with Conservative and Orthodox teens from around the country. […]

An electric car charges in a station. (Photo/JTA-Wikimedia Commons)
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Conservative rabbis endorse use of electric cars on Shabbat, but divisions over driving remain

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg July 27, 2023
Jewish scholars and rabbis in the Teshuva Writing Collective, a project of Svara, are creating the first collection of responsa by and for transgender Jews. (Photo/JTA-Jess Benjamin)
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Queer yeshiva to publish first-ever collection of Jewish legal opinions written by and for trans Jews

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA March 20, 2023
The Kehillah Jewish High School's Moot Beit Din team making their case.
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Kehillah high school team wins national ‘Moot Beit Din’

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From the cover of "The Talmud: A Biography" by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
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Three books to put you through (Jewish) law school

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman September 14, 2018
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I’m tired of being judged on the ‘right way’ to be Jewish

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler April 25, 2017April 26, 2017
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