Comments on: Orthodox Jewish Feminism http://bargainjewess.com/2009/03/jewish-feminism-and-why-i-love-ithodox/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:30:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Alex - Israeli Uncensored News http://bargainjewess.com/2009/03/jewish-feminism-and-why-i-love-ithodox/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Alex - Israeli Uncensored News Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:27:17 +0000 http://bargainjewess.wordpress.com/?p=236#comment-202 Indeed, in our times the original reasoning for sex segregation no longer holds. Women don't have to spend all their time at home, and praying men need not salivate over their female rabbi while they see half-dressed women on streets. Indeed, in our times the original reasoning for sex segregation no longer holds. Women don’t have to spend all their time at home, and praying men need not salivate over their female rabbi while they see half-dressed women on streets.

]]> By: GarykPatton http://bargainjewess.com/2009/03/jewish-feminism-and-why-i-love-ithodox/comment-page-1/#comment-175 GarykPatton Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:37:31 +0000 http://bargainjewess.wordpress.com/?p=236#comment-175 Hi! I like your srticle and I would like very much to read some more information on this issue. Will you post some more? Hi! I like your srticle and I would like very much to read some more information on this issue. Will you post some more?

]]> By: Leeba http://bargainjewess.com/2009/03/jewish-feminism-and-why-i-love-ithodox/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Leeba Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:59:19 +0000 http://bargainjewess.wordpress.com/?p=236#comment-69 I first would like to say that I am on the Frum side of Orthodoxy. However, as I read the parsha each week, I see that even back then, women played a role...there were prophetesses who the tiny nation among nations listened to. Perhaps we are here because they did. Then again, there were Queens, who literally risked their lives on behalf of their people, who otherwise would have been eradicated from the face of the earth, (G-d forbid) I learn with a Rebbetzen of a Chabad shul. We learn anything we want. We have studied Gemara as well as some obscure book on why we do certain things in the kitchen the way we do - it is connected to ancient ways of everything from tilling, planting to harveting, for example. We have studied Gematria and can add words at the shabbos table faster than many of the Yesiva students. We, as women, are the formative teachers of the next generation of Jews, both male and female ones. We instruct our children on everything from how to make a bracha after using the toilet to singing their night time shema. We share with them the importance of eating only kosher food to beginning to mimic our own habit of davening as they walk behind us with any book, most probably up-side-down, as they learn the Hebrew words by heart. I have also belonged to a shul in a city about 2 hours from where I live now that had and still has a female president. Why? Because even the males present realised that she was the best person for the job. One does not have to break the rules. One does not need to even bend them. One only needs to study carefully and see when and where man-made traditions of separation came about, and then research back to see if there is a Torah-based foundation for a set of rules or if the rules are simply tradition. Torah trumps Tradition. All the best, Leeba I first would like to say that I am on the Frum side of Orthodoxy. However, as I read the parsha each week, I see that even back then, women played a role…there were prophetesses who the tiny nation among nations listened to. Perhaps we are here because they did. Then again, there were Queens, who literally risked their lives on behalf of their people, who otherwise would have been eradicated from the face of the earth, (G-d forbid)

I learn with a Rebbetzen of a Chabad shul. We learn anything we want. We have studied Gemara as well as some obscure book on why we do certain things in the kitchen the way we do – it is connected to ancient ways of everything from tilling, planting to harveting, for example. We have studied Gematria and can add words at the shabbos table faster than many of the Yesiva students.

We, as women, are the formative teachers of the next generation of Jews, both male and female ones. We instruct our children on everything from how to make a bracha after using the toilet to singing their night time shema. We share with them the importance of eating only kosher food to beginning to mimic our own habit of davening as they walk behind us with any book, most probably up-side-down, as they learn the Hebrew words by heart.

I have also belonged to a shul in a city about 2 hours from where I live now that had and still has a female president. Why? Because even the males present realised that she was the best person for the job.

One does not have to break the rules. One does not need to even bend them. One only needs to study carefully and see when and where man-made traditions of separation came about, and then research back to see if there is a Torah-based foundation for a set of rules or if the rules are simply tradition.

Torah trumps Tradition.

All the best,

Leeba

]]> By: Sharon Weiss-Greenberg http://bargainjewess.com/2009/03/jewish-feminism-and-why-i-love-ithodox/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Sharon Weiss-Greenberg Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:34:21 +0000 http://bargainjewess.wordpress.com/?p=236#comment-62 I think that the education of women has drastically improved since the 1980s. What has changed in the past couple of years, is the acceptance of advanced Jewish education in the mainstream orthodox community. Most communities are ready for female leaders...it seems as if the title is going to need to wait. I think that the education of women has drastically improved since the 1980s. What has changed in the past couple of years, is the acceptance of advanced Jewish education in the mainstream orthodox community. Most communities are ready for female leaders…it seems as if the title is going to need to wait.

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