Judaism articles from September 1993

Judaism archives from September 1993

Further on women as prayer leaders and their role in communal prayer: an exchange, communal prayer and women. (response to Judith Hauptman, Judaism, vol. 42, p. 94, 1993)(includes related article)
September 22, 1993... I. Introduction PROFESSOR JUDITH HAUPTMAN'S ARTIcle, "Women and Prayer: An Attempt to Dispel Some Fallacies" (JUDAISM 42:94-103 [1993]), addresses two fundamentally different issues. Hauptman's first section, which reviews the...

Some thoughts on the nature of halakhic adjudication: women and minyan.
September 22, 1993... PROFESSOR MICHAEL BROYDE IS RIGHT. Jewish law is and was sexist: it does not extend to women the same opportunities for spiritual expression and public leadership as it does to men. For the last five centuries, at least, key Jewish codes have...

The rebirth of Anzia Yezierska.
September 22, 1993... IN THE EARLY 1920S, WRITER ANZIA YEzierska was something of a household name. Countless newspapers and magazines told and retold her rags-to-riches story of literary success. Hers was a spectacular and particularly American ascent into the...

Kabbalistic feminism in Agnon's 'Betrothed.' (S.Y. Agnon)
September 22, 1993... Introduction THE STRUGGLE TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN a Jewish identifty as the core of Israeli culture, in the face of the chasm in Jewish life opened up by modernity between the self and reason at war with community and faith, is an...

A feminist's look at Esther.
September 22, 1993... FEMINISTS COMMITTED TO JEWISH TRADItion have been taking a new look at Scripture and midrashic writings in search of female role models which might inspire the modern Jewish woman. The problem is twofold: not only are there too few female...

The creation of Adam as hermaphrodite - and its implications for feminist theology.
September 22, 1993... WHEN WESTERN FEMINISTS TRIED TO SHAPE their theological credo into a unified logical corpus and mould it on the Bible, they felt alienated. The main reason for their difficulty is the way in which women are depicted in the Bible. However, when...

What's right with women and zimmun.
September 22, 1993... Introduction IN RECENT YEARS, THERE HAS ARISEN CONsiderable halakhically based controversy over women's participation in certain areas of Jewish life. These include women's prayer groups, women's advanced Torah study, and women's...

From veil to wig: Jewish women's hair covering.
September 22, 1993... Introduction THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TO EXamine the practice of hair covering among Jewish women from a historical and cultural perspective. The topic deserves attention, particularly in light of the renewed observance of this...

Can the demand for change in the status of women be halakhically legitimated.
September 22, 1993... THE PRESENT ARTICLE SUMS UP MY REACtions from participating in several forums devoted to discussions regarding the status of women in Judaism. I regard myself on the one hand as a traditionalist, ideologically committed to the dictates of...

'In any case there are no sinful thoughts' - the role and status of women in Jewish Law as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan.
September 22, 1993... Jewish woman, who knows your life? You come in the darkness and never see the light, Your woes and your joys, your hopes and desires, Are born within you and you die unfulfilled; Daughters of other people and tribes Enjoy...

Techinas: A Voice from the Heart, a Collection of Jewish Women's Prayers, 'As Only a Woman can Pray.'
September 22, 1993... Introduction INCREASING WORK HAS BEEN DONE IN REcent years on making accessible to a wider audience prayers written for and said predominantly by Jewish women. This work is important not only for women searching for appropriate prayers...

Out of the Depths I Call to You: A Book of Prayers for the Married Jewish Woman.
September 22, 1993... Introduction INCREASING WORK HAS BEEN DONE IN REcent years on making accessible to a wider audience prayers written for and said predominantly by Jewish women. This work is important not only for women searching for appropriate prayers...

The Merit of Our Mothers: A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women's Prayers.
September 22, 1993... Introduction INCREASING WORK HAS BEEN DONE IN REcent years on making accessible to a wider audience prayers written for and said predominantly by Jewish women. This work is important not only for women searching for appropriate prayers...

Chattel or Person? The Status of Women in the Mishnah.
September 22, 1993... As WITH the Biblical texts that they interpret and elaborate, the literary documents of rabbinic Judaism are complex and multi-stranded, reflective of the extended duration of their composition. And far from being monolithic in the views and...

Women at Prayer: A Halakhic Analysis of Women's Prayer Groups.
September 22, 1993... The fact that many of the issues addressed in Rabbi Avraham Weiss' Women at Prayer are tangential to most American Jews masks the importance of his volume. Weiss has presented a well-researched and documented halakhic justification for women's...