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Rabbi Asher Lopatin

Rabbi Asher Lopatin is the founding rabbi of Kehillat Etz Chayim, a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Detroit, and the founding director of the Detroit National Center for Civil Discourse. He served as president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School since July, 2013, and before that, for eighteen years as the rabbi of the Modern Orthodox Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation in Chicago. Rabbi Lopatin received ordination from Rav Ahron Soloveichik and Yeshivas Brisk in Chicago, and from Yeshiva University, as a Wexner Graduate Fellow and is a Rhodes Scholar with an M. Phil in Medieval Arabic Thought from Oxford University. Rabbi Lopatin is married to Rachel Tessler Lopatin and they have four children.

Can Orthodoxy Become Fully Egalitarian? VIDEOS

Can Orthodoxy Become Fully Egalitarian?

by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz and Rabbi Asher Lopatin
December 24, 2017

Categories: Denominations, Halakhah, Halakhah, Modern Judaism, Women's Forum
Complexities of Intermarriage – Bayme Lopatin Novak – UTJ Shidduch Crisis & Intermarriage # 8/8 VIDEOS

Complexities of Intermarriage – Bayme Lopatin Novak – UTJ Shidduch Crisis & Intermarriage # 8/8

by Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg, Rabbi David Novak and Rabbi Asher Lopatin
August 10, 2017

Categories: Life Cycle, Modern Judaism, Relationships
The Shidduch Crisis & Intermarriage:  Finding Love in the Jewish Community (UTJ 2016 Conference – Full Video) VIDEOS

The Shidduch Crisis & Intermarriage: Finding Love in the Jewish Community (UTJ 2016 Conference – Full Video)

by Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg, Temima Goldberg Shulman, Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, Rabbi David Novak and Rabbi Asher Lopatin
August 6, 2017

Categories: Halakhah, Life Cycle, Modern Judaism, Relationships, UTJ Events, Women's Forum

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