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What is Women & Orthodoxy?

A call to discussion is a first step in developing serious and respectful dialogue on Women and Orthodoxy.
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Posted on 5:35AM October 25, 2004 | (0) Comment(s) | Email This

Yo'atzot Halakha

by Dr. Deena Zimmerman

The area of taharat ha-mishpacha, rife as it is with questions
demanding careful, knowledgeable and timely resolution, is one of great difficulty for many observant women.

Dr. Deena Zimmerman is a pediatrician and a yo'etzet halakha in Israel.
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Posted on 1:37PM October 24, 2004 | (1) Comment(s) | Email This

A Perspective on Women's Bina Yeteira

by Rabbi Walter S. Wurzburger

The Rav zt'l strongly advocated the intensive study of Gemara by women, because he was convinced that nowadays, mothers are the dominant influence in shaping the religious attitudes of their children.

Rabbi Walter S. Wurzburger is the rabbi emeritus of Shaarei Tefilah in Lawrence, NY.

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Posted on 1:33PM October 24, 2004 | (1) Comment(s) | Email This

Birkat ha-Gomel

by Rabbi Abraham Wahrhaftig

More than a decade ago, when I was a gabbai of a local minyan, a woman in the congregation who had given birth to a baby girl a few days earlier called me. She and her husband were sponsoring a kiddush the next Shabbat and she wanted to say birkat ha-gomel herself during the Torah reading. It seemed quite reasonable to me, and while our shul had no official rabbi, I found the consensus among the learned people in the congregation was that it was acceptable.

Rabbi Abraham Wahrhaftig is the director of Camp Morasha in Lake Como, PA.
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Posted on 1:27PM October 24, 2004 | (0) Comment(s) | Email This

A Woman's Place

by Jordana Schoor

"A woman's place is in the home." Today, this maxim has an entirely new connotation: a woman's domain is not exclusively in the home, but it is certainly a place where she can express herself and her love of and commitment to Torah.

Jordana Schoor teaches Judaic studies.

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Posted on 1:23PM October 24, 2004 | (0) Comment(s) | Email This

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