Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law
Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law

Author: Rabbi Ethan Tucker

Publisher: Ktav Publishing House

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789655241983

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"As gender equality spreads throughout society, including its religiously observant sectors, traditional communities turn to their guiding sources to re-examine such questions. This book highlights the wealth of Jewish legal material surrounding gender and prayer, with particular focus on traditional services and the communal quorum, or minyan"--Provided by publisher"--

Fertility and Jewish Law
Fertility and Jewish Law

Author: Ronit Irshai

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 161168241X

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A comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective

Engendering Judaism
Engendering Judaism

Author: Rachel Adler

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 1999-09-10

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780807036198

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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for 1998. How can women's full participation transform Jewish law, prayer, sexuality, and marriage? What does it mean to "engender" Jewish tradition? Pioneering theologian Rachel Adler gives this timely and powerful question its first thorough study in a book that bristles with humor, passion, intelligence, and deep knowledge of traditional biblical and rabbinic texts.

Educating in the Divine Image
Educating in the Divine Image

Author: Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1611684587

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Although recent scholarship has examined gender issues in Judaism with regard to texts, rituals, and the rabbinate, there has been no full-length examination of the education of Jewish children in day schools. Drawing on studies in education, social science, and psychology, as well as personal interviews, the authors show how traditional (mainly Orthodox) day school education continues to re-inscribe gender inequities and socialize students into unhealthy gender identities and relationships. They address pedagogy, school practices, curricula, and textbooks, as along with single-sex versus coed schooling, dress codes, sex education, Jewish rituals, and gender hierarchies in educational leadership. Drawing a stark picture of the many ways both girls and boys are molded into gender identities, the authors offer concrete resources and suggestions for transforming educational practice.

Women and Water
Women and Water

Author: Rahel Wasserfall

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1611688701

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The term Niddah means separation. During her menstrual flow and for several days thereafter, a Jewish woman is considered Niddah -- separate from her husband and unable to practice the sacred rituals of Judaism. Purification in a miqveh (a ritual bath) following her period restores full status as a wife and member of the Jewish community. In the contemporary world, debates about Niddah focus less on the literal exclusion of menstruating women from the synagogue, instead emphasizing relations between husband and wife and the general role of Jewish women in Judaism. Although this has been the law since ancient times, the meaning and practice of Niddah has been widely contested. Women and Water explores how these purity rituals have affected Jewish women across time and place, and shows how their own interpretation of Niddah often conflicted with rabbinic views. These essays also speak to contemporary feminist issues such as shaping women's identity, power relations between women and men, and the role of women in the sacred.

Women and Jewish Law
Women and Jewish Law

Author: Rachel Biale

Publisher: Schocken

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Baile provides sources on issues such as marriage, divorce, birth control, abortion, lesbianism, and communal worship and rape.

Gender Issues in Jewish Law
Gender Issues in Jewish Law

Author: Walter Jacob

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781571812391

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Published in Association with the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah General Editor: Walter Jacob+

On Women and Judaism
On Women and Judaism

Author: Blu Greenberg

Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780827611597

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A classic for more than 20 years, this thought-provoking volume explores the role of Jewish women in the synagogue, in the family, and in the secular world. Greenberg offers ways to change present Jewish practices so that they more readily reflect feminine equality.

Responsa on Contemporary Jewish Women's Issues
Responsa on Contemporary Jewish Women's Issues

Author: J. H. Henkin

Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780881257823

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No one interested in Jewish women's issues or contemporary Halakhah can afford to forgo this book. For the first time, twenty-four modern responsa have been translated from the Hebrew, including four never before published. From mehitzah in the synagogue to the blessing recited by men, shelo asani ishah who has not made me a woman, from women's prayer groups to hair covering, and from Talmud study to limiting family size, Responsa on Contemporary Jewish Women's Issues written by Rabbi Yehuda Henkin treats current and controversial topics with authority and erudition, forcefulness and grace.

Gender in Judaism and Islam
Gender in Judaism and Islam

Author: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1479801275

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This book addresses a range of topics, including gendered readings of texts, legal issues in marriage and divorce, ritual practices, and women's literary expressions , along with feminist influences within the Muslim and Jewish communities and issues affecting Jewish and Muslim women in contemporary society.The volume focuses attention on the theoretical innovations that gender scholarship has brought to the study of Muslim and Jewish experiences. At a time when Judaism and Islam are often discussed as though they were inherently at odds, this book offers a reconsideration of the connections between these two traditions.