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Hadar was originally founded on the radical notion that a service that is egalitarian could run as fast as a nonegalitarian service.

With its dedicated volunteer culture, focus on inspiring traditional davening, high-level Torah study, and egalitarian, universal outlook, Kehilat Hadar attempts to live out a world of Empowered Judaism.

Independent minyanim are communities formed by Empowered Jews; Yeshivat Hadar is a community that models and teaches how to become an Empowered Jew.

In his book Flexigidity, Gidi Grinstein hypothesizes that the most fundamental aspect of Judaism is its ability to adapt, to be rigid and flexible at the same time.

The problem, as always, starts and ends with education, and this is where I do have a real issue. One of the political deals that’s been cut with the Orthodox parties over the years allows the Charedi community to create its own education system, which is sponsored by the rest of Israeli taxpayers. That system is based on studying the Torah and its

a dream of an intensive, passionate Torah environment for laypeople.

we had no compulsion to try to be what we’re not. The freedom to say about a program, “That worked one year, it doesn’t work now,” is incredibly liberating.