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Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg

Bruce Ginsburg is the Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Sons of Israel in Woodmere, NY. A product of Boston University, New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary, and Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, he holds a doctorate in Hebrew literature. Known for his decades-old activism on behalf of Israel, Soviet Jewry, and intra/interfaith cooperation, he has served both as president of the Long Island Board of Rabbis and as president of the Union for Traditional Judaism. His essays have appeared in Newsday, the Christian Science Monitor, the Jerusalem Report, and other publications. He and his wife, Rachel, moved to Israel in the summer of 2022.

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
ARTICLE (Reprinted from New Jersey Jewish Standard)

Taking comfort in our choices

by Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg
December 30, 2005

Categories: Articles, Denominations, Modern Judaism, Philosophy
ARTICLE (Reprinted from Forward)

Women’s Ordination Would Have Been Unthinkable Without Pioneering Halachic Critique

by Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg and Rabbi Ronald Price
December 24, 2015

Categories: Women's Forum
DIVREI TORAH

Parashat Yitro

by Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg
May 23, 2017

Categories: Uncategorized
ARTICLE (Reprinted from The New York Jewish Week)

Halachic Template For Women’s Ordination Isn’t New

by Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg
July 16, 2013

Categories: Halakhah, Modern Judaism, Women's Forum

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