Author: Moshe Meiselman
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780870683299
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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 Woman in Jewish Law
Author: Moshe Meiselman
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780870683299
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780870683299
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
Women and Jewish Law
Author: Rachel Biale
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307762017
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307762017
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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.
Women and Water
Author: Rahel Wasserfall
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611688701
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The term Niddah means separation. During her menstrual flow and for several days thereafter, a Jewish woman is considered Niddah -- separate from her husband and unable to practice the sacred rituals of Judaism. Purification in a miqveh (a ritual bath) following her period restores full status as a wife and member of the Jewish community. In the contemporary world, debates about Niddah focus less on the literal exclusion of menstruating women from the synagogue, instead emphasizing relations between husband and wife and the general role of Jewish women in Judaism. Although this has been the law since ancient times, the meaning and practice of Niddah has been widely contested. Women and Water explores how these purity rituals have affected Jewish women across time and place, and shows how their own interpretation of Niddah often conflicted with rabbinic views. These essays also speak to contemporary feminist issues such as shaping women's identity, power relations between women and men, and the role of women in the sacred.
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611688701
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The term Niddah means separation. During her menstrual flow and for several days thereafter, a Jewish woman is considered Niddah -- separate from her husband and unable to practice the sacred rituals of Judaism. Purification in a miqveh (a ritual bath) following her period restores full status as a wife and member of the Jewish community. In the contemporary world, debates about Niddah focus less on the literal exclusion of menstruating women from the synagogue, instead emphasizing relations between husband and wife and the general role of Jewish women in Judaism. Although this has been the law since ancient times, the meaning and practice of Niddah has been widely contested. Women and Water explores how these purity rituals have affected Jewish women across time and place, and shows how their own interpretation of Niddah often conflicted with rabbinic views. These essays also speak to contemporary feminist issues such as shaping women's identity, power relations between women and men, and the role of women in the sacred.
Jewish Women in Time and Torah
Author: Eliezer Berkovits
Publisher: Yeshiva University Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Berkowitz examines the status of women in halacha. He offers suggestions from the tradition to improve that status, particularly in the areas of divorce, and ritual practice.
Publisher: Yeshiva University Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Berkowitz examines the status of women in halacha. He offers suggestions from the tradition to improve that status, particularly in the areas of divorce, and ritual practice.
Jewish Women in Historical Perspective
Author: Judith Reesa Baskin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814327135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include portrayals of women in the Hebrew Bible, the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity, and Jewish women in the Middle Ages.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814327135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include portrayals of women in the Hebrew Bible, the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity, and Jewish women in the Middle Ages.
Women and Jewish Law
Author: Rachel Biale
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Baile provides sources on issues such as marriage, divorce, birth control, abortion, lesbianism, and communal worship and rape.
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Baile provides sources on issues such as marriage, divorce, birth control, abortion, lesbianism, and communal worship and rape.
Rereading The Rabbis
Author: Judith Hauptman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429966202
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Fully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in order to benefit women. Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, recognizing that they were written by men and for men and that the
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429966202
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Fully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in order to benefit women. Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, recognizing that they were written by men and for men and that the
Women and Social Change in North Africa
Author: Doris H. Gray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110841950X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110841950X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.
On Women and Judaism
Author: Blu Greenberg
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN: 9780827611597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A classic for more than 20 years, this thought-provoking volume explores the role of Jewish women in the synagogue, in the family, and in the secular world. Greenberg offers ways to change present Jewish practices so that they more readily reflect feminine equality.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN: 9780827611597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A classic for more than 20 years, this thought-provoking volume explores the role of Jewish women in the synagogue, in the family, and in the secular world. Greenberg offers ways to change present Jewish practices so that they more readily reflect feminine equality.
A Jewish Ceremony for Newborn Girls
Author: Sharon R. Siegel
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 161168417X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Formulates a framework for the development of Jewish rituals for newborn girls
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 161168417X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Formulates a framework for the development of Jewish rituals for newborn girls