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Saturday, February 18 • 12:15pm - 1:30pm
How 'Treif' Becomes Kosher: Why Jews Can Eat Turkey and What It Means for Female Orthodox Clergy

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Can Orthodox Judaism embrace the untraditional? In this text-based study, we'll follow how turkey - an untraditional, New World bird - slowly gained acceptance into a tradition-oriented Kosher system. More broadly, we'll note the different strategies that are available to Orthodox rabbis in permitting new Jewish practices, with a particular focus on the rise of female Orthodox clergy.
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Ben Greenfield

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
Ben Greenfield is organizing and leading the Jewish community of waterfront North Brooklyn.  As Rabbi of the Greenpoint Shul, an inclusive Orthodox shul in historic/hipster/Hasidic-adjacent Greenpoint, Ben creates Jewish spaces that are inviting, warm, and rooted in exceptional Torah... Read More →

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