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Voice of the Bride
By Sarah SchneiderThere will come a time, blessed and welcomed by all, when the feminine will have greater access to transcendent consciousness, and when that happens, she will bestow and man will receive from her... 1 Comment |  |
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I Am Woman
By Sara Esther CrispeI wanted to celebrate the differences inherent in the sexes rather than diminish them; to unravel the mysteries of what it meant to be a woman... what it meant to be a Jewish woman... 26 Comments |  |
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'Till the Lights Go Out
By Shimona TzukernikTorah does not support asceticism, the closed walls of a monastery and a life apart from the bones of the body. We are asked to eat the cookie – or kasha – but to ever remain the master of that act... 5 Comments |  |
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A Woman's Place in Torah
From the talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel SchneersonWithin the context of our society, women are required to function on a more sophisticated level than ever before, occupying professional positions that require higher knowledge... 6 Comments |  |
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Tending the Garden
By Chana WeisbergI'm often asked: Where are the feminine voices in Jewish history, the feminine role models? Why are they not leading the way? 6 Comments |  |
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A Daughter of Zelophehad Speaks
By Sarah SchneiderThe Torah's account of the petition presented to Moses by the daughters of Zelophehad is relevant both to women seeking Halachic support for change, and to the rabbis who are ruling on their questions 9 Comments |  |
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Chassidic Feminist
By Rivkah SlonimI would describe myself as a Chassidic feminist. The two terms are not mutually exclusive, though their combination is not without tension... 26 Comments |  |
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A Woman's Role
You can’t do your job as a mother, as a wife, if you’re single, or as a member of a community, and live Jewishly, properly, if you’re not inspired yourself, if you don’t know what it is all about. |  |
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Women in the Synagogue
By Tzvi FreemanThe issue is even more baffling than you think. Most of the guidelines for prayer, we learned from a lady named Chana who lived about 3000 years ago. Yet all the dominant roles in communal prayer are given to men! 25 Comments |  |
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The Contributing Factor
By Chana KrollA woman must cultivate a relationship with her Creator and use her mind to its fullest capacity. Only then, asserts the Akeidat Yitzchak, can a woman fulfill her second role as Chava, 'mother of all life', a role which crowns the role of isha. 2 Comments |  |
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The Back of the Synagogue is Not the Back of the Bus
By Amy Edelstein...I listened carefully to what Esther Kosovsky and Tamar Frankiel had to say as we talked about some provocative and pointed issues. Their unswerving conviction in their own rich experience as observant Orthodox women speaks for itself. 4 Comments |  |
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Feminism and Orthodoxy
By Susan HandelmanThe innovations and increase in Torah study of recent generations connects to and is emphasized more in relation to women... 5 Comments |  |
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Transforming Women's Torah Learning
By Bryna Jocheved LevyTorah learning for Jewish women has been revolutionized. No longer must women strive to learn as men, but rather women are now revealing and celebrating their own unique ability to learn as women. 3 Comments |  |
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Miriam’s Circle Dance
By Sarah SchneiderA circle has no beginning or end, and every point is equidistant from its center; so it is for souls. Truly, it is impossible to rank them, for each is the most beloved in the scale of values that is its perfected virtue... 1 Comment |  |
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Different But Equal
By Simon JacobsonBefore we can understand the differences between men and women, we must first understand the differences between masculine and feminine. 4 Comments |  |
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Eve's Shield of Protection
By Yitzchak GinsburghThe Hebrew name of the first woman, Eve, is Chavah, which means "the source of life." It was Chavah who participated first in the primordial sin, which introduced death to the world. Chavah is the archetypal woman; every woman can thus rectify the primordial sin... |  |
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The Curse of Eve
By Tova BernbaumThose who refer to the biblical story of Eve as a Divine endorsement of sexism are overlooking a simple truth: a curse is not something that should to be the way it is -- it's something that should not be the way it is... 8 Comments |  |
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Put All Your (Chaotic) Eggs in One Basket
By Yitzchak GinsburghFirst tries are usually chaotic. Yet the Torah offers us different methods of capturing the chaotic energies of beginnings and turning them into productive and stable states that can be used over and over again. 1 Comment |  |
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