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Ceremony." A standard Orthodox wedding ceremony has only the groom giving a ring to the bride and does not allow for the bride to give a ring to the groom other than in a purely symbolic fashion after the ceremony was completed. In contrast, Linzer's model has the bride giving a ring immediately after the groom does so, in the presence of witnesses, and serving a substantive halakhic (Jewish legal) function. This ceremony is seeing increasing use among liberal couples.
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the legitimacy of the brain-death definition and critiquing those who would be prepared to receive organs but refuse to donate them. This statement was signed by over 100 rabbis, including some of the most prominent Modern
Orthodox rabbis in the U.S. and Israel. The RCA subsequently backed away from the implications of its paper. The
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sponsored a conference entitled "Demystifying Sex and
Teaching Halacha: A Kallah (Jewish Bridal) Teacher's Workshop," to bring frank talk about sex and sexuality into the requisite classes taken by Orthodox brides prior to their wedding. This conference was held again in 2011, with a second cohort of
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Linzer, together with his wife, Devorah
Zlochower, has been outspoken about the Orthodox community's responsibility to address children of special needs in its schools, synagogues and communal institutions, . At Linzer's Chovevei Torah, rabbinical students receive special training in inclusion for
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voiced serious reservations as to the validity of brain-stem death as the Jewish legal definition of death. The rejection of this definition would make almost all organ-transplants forbidden by Jewish Law. Linzer authored a "Rabbinic
Statement Regarding Organ Donation and Brain Death", reaffirming
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In 2003, Linzer wrote an article, "Towards a More
Balanced Wedding Ceremony,", describing ways of creating a more gender-balanced wedding ceremony while keeping within the letter of Jewish Law. His most innovative suggestion was that of a halakhic two-ring ceremony, informally known as the "Linzer
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Linzer has taken a public stand on a number of controversial issues within the
Orthodox Jewish community. In 2006, he was the only Orthodox, albeit self-recognized, rabbi to go on record supporting the naming of Dina Najman as spiritual leader of the Orthodox congregation, Kehilat Orach Eliezer.
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since its founding in 1999. He was named its dean, assuming ultimate responsibility of both the religious studies and the professional training, in
October, 2007. He is recognized as a left leaning, novel styled scholar in the community, and is the primary architect of the school's innovative
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ranked him among the 50 most prominent rabbis in the United States, stating that "Linzer's students now hold some of the most prominent positions in shuls and
Hillels all over the country" and that his school's "alumni will undoubtedly alter the fabric of
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then issued a statement which affirmed the halakhic validity of the original 2010 paper commissioned by the RCA as reflecting the position of "a majority of major poskim today". This, in turn, prompted
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