The International Rabbinic Fellowship (IRF) is a Modern Orthodox, rabbinical organization founded by Rabbis Avi Weiss and Marc D. Angel in 2007[1] and soon elected Rabbi Barry Gelman as its president.
The group is noted for being the only Orthodox rabbinical association to admit women rabbis as members.
[4] The organization views itself as a counterpart to the Rabbinical Council of America, an established modern Orthodox association.
[8] Alternatively, the IRF is evidence of a shifting trend, within modern Orthodoxy, away from fundamentalism.
[9] The IRF supports, in contravention of contemporary Orthodox halacha the ordination of women and their role in the clergy.