Click for the full PORAT report.

Click the image for the full report.

June 2022 - PORAT published and released its original report on the needs and values of single adults in the Modern Orthodox community. Using original survey data from Nishma Research and the Orthodox Union, Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman (Brandeis University) wrote the report with an analysis of the findings and actionable recommendations for communities to adopt to make their communities more welcoming for all. Click here to read the full report.


Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman (Professor Emerita of Contemporary Jewish Life in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University), The Times of Israel, May 9, 2022:

‘Don’t single us out!’ Welcome unmarried Jews

The focus on family norms leaves older singles and the divorced and widowed feeling invisible in synagogues or judged as 'broken and waiting to be fixed'


T_xkQGUQ-1024x640.jpeg

R. Yehuda Sarna (Founding Committee of PORAT), The Times of Israel, August 21, 2020:

How I became Chief Rabbi of the UAE and why that matters to global Jewry


rabbi_haggai_resnikoff.jpg

R. Haggai Resnikoff, The Forward, August 7, 2020:

Why isn’t climate change a bigger issue for the Orthodox?


L1210683-copyb-4-copy.jpg

PORAT Response to OU Statement on Women in Rabbinic Clergy Positions - February 8, 2018:

PORAT Response to Recent OU Statement


Western-Wall.jpg

PORAT Press Release - July 2017:

Statement About Recent Israeli Cabinet Decisions


R. Avi Weiss, The Times of Israel, May 18, 2016:

Don’t lock me out: Closing charge at PORAT’s inaugural event


Gary Rosenblatt, The Jewish Week, May 18, 2016:

In Two Crucial Struggles, Arming With Jewish Values


 

R. Avi Weiss & Rella Feldman, Tablet Magazine, May 11, 2016:

A More Inclusive Modern Orthodoxy


Atara Lindenbaum, The Times of Israel, May 9, 2016:

(No) Questions Allowed? My Quest to Find Balance Between Faith and Doubt


R. Yitz Greenberg, The Jewish Week, May 4, 2016:

Can Modern Orthodoxy Be The New Center


Dr. Steven Bayme and Laura Shaw Frank, May 2, 2016:

The Eclipse and Resurgence of Modern Orthodoxy in Americ



Gary Rosenblatt, The Jewish Week, March 9, 2016:

Giving Voice To Inclusive Orthodoxy