Background
Henkin was born in Pennsylvania in 1945 and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. His father was Hillel Henkin, a Jewish educator in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Yehuda Henkin
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After graduating from the Yeshivah of Flatbush High School in 1962, he studied six years with his famous grandfather, Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, from whom he received semichah, and served as the Rabbi of the Beit She"an valley before moving to Jerusalem.
Career
R. Yehuda Henkin discusses whether those who believe that the Lubavitcher Rebbe is the messiah are considered to be heretics, ruling that they are not. R. Yehudah Henkin was unsure whether this applies to hearing a woman’s voice on television He allows women studying Talmud.
He permits dancing on the Sabbath.
He permits a man to shake a woman"s hand when offered, and vice versa. lieutenant is a more recent authority relative to the Mishnah Brurah.
Although Aruch haShulchan on Choshen Mishpat preceded the Mishnah Berurah, the part on Orach Chayim was published up to 10 years after Mishnah Berurah). He covers all of the Shulkhan Arukh
More importantly, the Arukh HaShulchan reflects the minhagim of the time, while the Mishna Berurah is much more precedent/text-based.
He has written the major objection to the concept of a partnership minyan, particularly the issue of calling women to the Torah.
In an article in the EDAH journal article on the subject, he provided point-by-point halakhic counterarguments, and also said:
Regardless of the arguments that can be proffered to permit women's aliyyot today— that kevod ha-tsibbur can be waived, that it does not apply today when everyone is literate, that it does not apply when the olim rely on the (male) ba'al qeri’ah and do not themselves read—women's aliyyot remain outside the consensus, and a congregation that institutes them is not Orthodox in name and will not long remain Orthodox in practice. In my judgment, this is an accurate statement now and for the foreseeable future, and I see no point in arguing about lieutenant
