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MigdalOr (Hebrew for "Lighthouse") is an Orthodox Jewish partnership minyan located in Washington Heights, Manhattan. ." MigdalOr was founded in March 2007 by three women from the Washington Heights community. The subsequently formed Leadership Team is a group of active men and women in the minyan. MigdalOr regulars have included several semikhah students and graduates of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshiva University, as well as students and alumni of the Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies at Stern College for Women and Drisha Institute most of whom attend Mount Sinai Jewish Center as well. According to its web site, MigdalOr was conceived as an alternative for "creat[ing] a warm, participatory environment dedicated to enhancing kavanah...while working within the context of Hal

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  • MigdalOr (Hebrew for "Lighthouse") is an Orthodox Jewish partnership minyan located in Washington Heights, Manhattan. ." MigdalOr was founded in March 2007 by three women from the Washington Heights community. The subsequently formed Leadership Team is a group of active men and women in the minyan. MigdalOr regulars have included several semikhah students and graduates of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshiva University, as well as students and alumni of the Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies at Stern College for Women and Drisha Institute most of whom attend Mount Sinai Jewish Center as well. According to its web site, MigdalOr was conceived as an alternative for "creat[ing] a warm, participatory environment dedicated to enhancing kavanah...while working within the context of Hal
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  • MigdalOr (Hebrew for "Lighthouse") is an Orthodox Jewish partnership minyan located in Washington Heights, Manhattan. ." MigdalOr was founded in March 2007 by three women from the Washington Heights community. The subsequently formed Leadership Team is a group of active men and women in the minyan. MigdalOr regulars have included several semikhah students and graduates of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshiva University, as well as students and alumni of the Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies at Stern College for Women and Drisha Institute most of whom attend Mount Sinai Jewish Center as well. According to its web site, MigdalOr was conceived as an alternative for "creat[ing] a warm, participatory environment dedicated to enhancing kavanah...while working within the context of Halakha." MigdalOr currently meets on alternating Friday nights and alternating Saturday afternoons part of the year, and hence does not address the issue of women's Torah reading, currently a thorny debate in Modern orthodox circles. On the one occasion when Migdal Or met for a morning service including Torah reading, namely Purim (March 21, 2008), they had a man do the reading. (The leaders of MigdalOr had had some discussion about this before Purim, but ultimately decided that this was the best solution, at least for the time being.) However, women read part of the Megilla of Esther on Purim 2008. Additionally, Migdal Or had a reading of the Megilla of Ruth on Shavuot 2008, from a kosher scroll; this reading was performed entirely by a woman. While MigdalOr is modeled on Shira Hadasha and other JOFA affiliated partnership minyanim, according to its small size and intimate atmosphere also give it some of the characteristics of a Chavurah as well as affinities with "independent minyanim" like Kehillat Hadar.
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