Rabbi Levi Welton
By Rabbi Levi Welton
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Opinion A frat Seder on a party boat taught me the true meaning of Passover
“I hate religion,” the college student told my brother-in-law, Shlomo. “Such chutzpah,” I fumed silently. I had flown down to Nashville to help my sister, Nechama, as she and her husband ran Passover services for the throngs of Jewish students who came to their nonprofit organization for Jewish students on Vanderbilt’s campus, the Rohr Chabad…
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Opinion I’m An Orthodox Rabbi. Too Many People Are Using Religion To Cloak Their Homophobia.
Recently, a lot of people have been asking me for my thoughts on Torah versus the LGBT community. The reality is that mainstream Orthodoxy will not permit a Rabbi to officiate a marriage for a gay couple, grant Rabbinical ordination to an openly gay man, or claim that Halacha is wrong. Rather, “Kabbolos Ol” applies…
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