Writer: Harry Maryles

November 5, 2016
2:10 pm

Anat Hoffman, director of Women of the Wall, holds a Torah scroll at the Western Wall, November 2, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Women of the Wall: It’s just politics

WOW and supporters aren’t motivated by spirituality, they’re seeking legitimacy for non-Orthodox Judaism

By Harry Maryles

January 11, 2016
4:14 pm

Women are NOT bringing down Orthodoxy

A rebuttal: No, the rabbis are not monstrously insensitive to women, they are just adhering to Jewish law

By Harry Maryles

October 13, 2015
4:30 pm

Jewish provocation on the Temple Mount

To those for whom the Mount is a cause celebre: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

By Harry Maryles

July 6, 2015
2:49 pm

For women’s sake, but not for God’s

The ordination of female rabbis aligns with a human rights agenda, but it clearly violates Jewish law

By Harry Maryles

March 1, 2015
12:37 pm

A win for Herpes

New York’s decision to permit oral suction in circumcisions without informed parental consent is disappointing

By Harry Maryles

February 17, 2015
6:41 pm

The wrong message about aliyah

There are many reasons that Jews should move to Israel, but running away from Europe is not one of them

By Harry Maryles

January 26, 2015
1:29 pm

The first class of ‘yoazot halacha’ trained to practice in the US includes graduates (left to right) Lisa Septimus, Nechama Price, Avital Weissman, Tova Warburg Sinensky, Dena Block, who pose with their certificates of completion in October 2013. (photo credit: Norman Goldberg)

Advisor or rabbi?

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin crossed the line when he appointed a woman as a spiritual leader in Efrat

By Harry Maryles

December 22, 2014
2:38 pm

Challenging Haredi education

A community risks disintegration unless it reverts back to a time when secular studies were valued

By Harry Maryles