Women in Judaism: Reexamining an Historical Paradigm
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 35-52
ISSN: 1534-5165
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 35-52
ISSN: 1534-5165
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 156-158
ISSN: 1534-5165
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 151-154
ISSN: 1534-5165
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 153-154
ISSN: 1534-5165
In: Iran and the Caucasus: research papers from the Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies = Iran i kavkaz : trudy Kavkazskogo e͏̈tìsentra iranistiki, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 383-393
ISSN: 1573-384X
The article investigates the gender and ritual roles of the Mountain Jewish women of Dagestan. The research is based on fieldwork conducted by the "Sefer" Center in 2018. The author suggests that in the Mountain Jewish communities the central component of ritual life is a collective feast, but not the synagogue as it is in many other Jewish communities. Since traditionally women are responsible for preparing food, they shape and pass on the traditions of the Mountain Jews. They organize community celebrations and rites of passage. During Soviet times, the power over the ritual process transferred from the centralized male system, the synagogue, to the female sphere.
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 168-170
ISSN: 1534-5165
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 149-152
ISSN: 1534-5165
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 4-15
ISSN: 1534-5165
Eliezer Berkovits's views on the status of women within Judaism are an outgrowth of his philosophy of the nature and function of halakah. He believed that Torat Hayyim, a living Torah, must speak to the unique needs of each particular generation and that human beings must take an active role in shaping that Torah. Berkovits's interest in the status of women did not stem from any particular affinity to feminism and the modern woman's cause. Rather, he sensed that this problem was the issue of the day facing traditional Judaism. Berkovits was unwilling to say that halakah has no answers for the contemporary woman. For him to do so would be to admit that Torah is morally deficient and not eternally valid or relevant and would constitute an affront to God's name. His belief in the power of the halakic system and his desire to defend the moral dignity of God's law spurred him, as a legal authority, to address women's spiritual, religious, and ritual needs in the modern day.
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 51-61
ISSN: 1534-5165
Twenty-five years ago, a group known as Ezrat Nashim challenged the Conservative movement to provide women with equal access to the religious and educational institutions of Conservative Judaism. While most of the demands made by Ezrat Nashim have now been met, the Conservative movement has by no means achieved the full integration of women into religious life. Moreover, it is unclear how Conservative Judaism has responded to feminism; has the Movement become "engendered" or has it merely allowed women to do those things previously restricted to men? This article explores the impact of feminism on Conservative Judaism from the personal perspective of the author, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary and an active Conservative Jew.
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 117-126
ISSN: 1534-5165
Since many of the men in Philip Roth's fiction perceive women as embodying a devout Judaism that excludes them, they equate their inability to achieve some level of hetero-sexual romantic fulfillment with a failed connection to their religious and cultural heritage. Throughout his short stories, which Roth used as a testing ground for his larger works, the conflation of lover and mother, both of whom uphold and represent Judaism, suggests that men have feminized their faith, and, in doing so, they often transfer their anger from one to the other.
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In: in Aneta Tyc, Jo Carby-Hall and Zbigniew Góral (eds.), Anti-Discrimination and Employment Law: International Legal Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2022).
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In: Halperin-Kaddari, Ruth, Elisheva Rosman, and Ofira Fuchs.2023. Between Social and Legal Legitimations: Weddings outside the Rabbinate in Israel. Religions 14: 240. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020240
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In: in Anna Triandafyllidou and Tariq Modood (eds.), The Problem of Religious Diversity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), pp. 250-272.
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In: Kim Treiger-Bar-Am, Women's Voices of Renewal within Tradition, 22(1) ANGELAKI (2017) 163-181, in PELAGIA GOULIMARI (ED.), WOMEN WRITING ACROSS CULTURES (Routledge, 2017)
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