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Sunday, December 2 • 2:50pm - 3:50pm
The Tragic Irony of Halakhic Development: How the Agunah Crisis Was Born From the Best of Intentions

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The modern-day agunah crisis is one of Orthodoxy's great tragedies. What happened? Laws were developed to grant women greater freedoms in divorce. This session will trace divorce law through halakhic history, and how, despite solving many issues of the past, it created many more for our present.
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Mark Glass

Mark Glass is the rabbi of the Adams Street Shul in Newton, MA. From Manchester, UK, he received his BA in Philosophy, MA in Jewish Philosophy, and Semikhah at Yeshiva University. He was previously an Assistant Director of Advocacy at ORA, the Organization for the Resolution of A... Read More →

Sunday December 2, 2018 2:50pm - 3:50pm EST
Room 110 Temple Reyim
  Torah & Philosophy