Women, Jewish Law and Modernity
Title | Women, Jewish Law and Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Joel B. Wolowelsky |
Publisher | KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780881255744 |
For the past few decades, manu Orthodox leaders have reacted to the overall friction between some aspects of feminist ideology and halakhah (Jewish las and ethics) by treating suggestions for increased women's participation in religious activities with suspicion. They feared that these proposals, while benign in appearance, could legitimize feminism in the eyes of the halakhic community. It is now time, argues the author, to move past this fear of feminism. We are fast approaching a "post-feminist" era in which accepting certain initiatives originally promoted by feminists no longer carries with it the implications that we accept feminist ideology as a whole. We should not continue to fight yesterday's battles, confusing a genuine desire to grow in Torah with an attack on Torah values. It is obvious to people who have firsthand contact with women engaged in advanced Torah education in Israeli schools like Michlelet Lindenbaum, Matan, or Nishmat or in American schools like Drisha and Stern College that it is the unparalleled high levels of education attained by these women that now drives this concern, not by any particular feminist agenda. This book explores how this drive for increased women's expression in our homes, at life-cycle events, in our synagogues and in our schools can be realized with complete fidelity to halakhah.
Jewish Woman in Jewish Law
Title | Jewish Woman in Jewish Law PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Meiselman |
Publisher | KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780870683299 |
Rabbi Moshe Meiselman addresses the attitude of Jewish law to women and how the Jewish tradition views the contemporary challenge of feminism. He discusses in detail such current issues as creative ritual, women in a minyan, aliyot for women, talit and tefillin. The question of agunah is also given lengthy consideration. The author mixes current issues with scholarly ones and gives full treatment to other issues such as learning Torah by women, women position in court both as witnesses and as litigants, the marriage ceremony & marital life. — Amazon.com.
Jewish Women's Torah Study
Title | Jewish Women's Torah Study PDF eBook |
Author | Ilan Fuchs |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2013-11-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1134642970 |
One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership. Jewish Women’s Torah Study addresses the question of women's integration in the halachic-religious system at this pivotal intersection. The contemporary debate regarding women’s Torah study first emerged in the second half of the 19th century. As women’s status in general society changed, offering increased legal rights and opportunities for education, a debate on the need to change women’s participation in Torah study emerged. Orthodoxy was faced with the question: which parts, if any, of modernity should be integrated into Halacha? Exemplifying the entire array of Orthodox responses to modernity, this book is a valuable addition to the scholarship of Judaism in the modern era and will be of interest to students and scholars of Religion, Gender Studies and Jewish Studies.
Women and Jewish Law
Title | Women and Jewish Law PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Biale |
Publisher | Schocken |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2011-04-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0307762017 |
How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special concern to women. Combining a historical overview with a thoughtful feminist critique, this pathbreaking study points the way for “informed change” in the status of women in Jewish life.
Judaism and the Challenges of Modern Life
Title | Judaism and the Challenges of Modern Life PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Halbertal |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2007-12-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0826496679 |
This collection of essays, authored by scholars of the Shalom Hartman Institute, addresses three critical challenges posed to Judaism by modernity: the challenge of ideas, the challenge of diversity, and the challenge of statehood, and provides insights and ideas for the future direction of Judaism.
Voices of the Matriarchs
Title | Voices of the Matriarchs PDF eBook |
Author | Chava Weissler |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1999-11-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 080703617X |
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for 1998 With Voices of the Matriarchs, Chava Weissler restores balance to our knowledge of Judaism by providing the first look at the Yiddish prayers women created during centuries of exclusion from men's observance. In Weissler's hands, these prayers (called thkines) open a new window into early modern European Jewish women's lives, beliefs, devotion, and relationships with God.
The Modern Jewish Woman
Title | The Modern Jewish Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Lubavitch Educational Foundation for Jewish Marriage Enrichment |
Publisher | |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Habad |
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