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