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Why do women dance at weddings, but not on Simchat Torah?
It is a question my nineteen year old son brought up over Yom Tov, and my husband had a poignant answer. At a wedding, the women dance around the bride. The kallah is the focal point and women dance...
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Placing a buffer between women and rabbis – is it a good thing?
The other week I saw an article about a program launched in my community by NILI, the Chicago Institute of Women’s Learning, which is part of the Yeshiva University Torah Mitzion Kollel in Chicago....
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Don’t Men Get Insulted?
I often wonder if men get tired of being underestimated when I see generalizations made about women being objects of lust and men being unable or unwilling to control their temptations. I recently...
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The Worth of a Woman
I just got finished reading an excellent article in Haaretz by Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt entitled, “The Dating Shame: Orthodox Obsession With Externals Has Reached Epidemic Proportions.” The article...
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Boudoir Photography Becoming Popular Among Orthodox Married Women
Considering that most media coverage regarding orthodox Jewish women tends to focus on restrictive modesty guidelines, it was refreshing to read about a surprising new trend among younger married...
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Not Before Rosh Hashanah
It’s a phrase heard this time of year in every orthodox community throughout America – “Not before Rosh Hashanah.” Did you hear that so and so is getting a divorce? I heard it’s because his wife…....
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Simchat Torah Dance Party
It’s that time of year again for orthodox women to become spectators at one of the liveliest holidays of the Jewish year – Simchat Torah. Yes, it’s time to break out those Torah scrolls and watch the...
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Why do women dance at weddings, but not on Simchat Torah?
It is a question my nineteen year old son brought up over Yom Tov, and my husband had a poignant answer. At a wedding, the women dance around the bride. The kallah is the focal point and women dance...
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Letting men take the wheel
Just as there are strong efforts today to change the mesorah of strict gender roles in Orthodox society, so there are strong efforts to resist such changes. Some of the strongest opponents of opening...
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The virtue of being blunt
Part of the reason that Orthodox men are only now dealing with the crisis of “feminism” is that it’s only been in the last decade or so that some Orthodox women have been blunt enough to voice their...
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‘Most women don’t want to’ is not a reason
Most men don’t want to play in the NBA, therefore they shouldn’t be allowed to play basketball. Most men don’t want to be President of the United States, therefore they shouldn’t be allowed to take the...
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The Worth of a Woman
I just got finished reading an excellent article in Haaretz by Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt entitled, “The Dating Shame: Orthodox Obsession With Externals Has Reached Epidemic Proportions.” The article...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boudoir Photography Becoming Popular Among Orthodox Married Women
Considering that most media coverage regarding orthodox Jewish women tends to focus on restrictive modesty guidelines, it was refreshing to read about a surprising new trend among younger married...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Not Before Rosh Hashanah
It’s a phrase heard this time of year in every orthodox community throughout America – “Not before Rosh Hashanah.” Did you hear that so and so is getting a divorce? I heard it’s because his wife…....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Simchat Torah Dance Party
It’s that time of year again for orthodox women to become spectators at one of the liveliest holidays of the Jewish year – Simchat Torah. Yes, it’s time to break out those Torah scrolls and watch the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why do women dance at weddings, but not on Simchat Torah?
It is a question my nineteen year old son brought up over Yom Tov, and my husband had a poignant answer. At a wedding, the women dance around the bride. The kallah is the focal point and women dance...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letting men take the wheel
Just as there are strong efforts today to change the mesorah of strict gender roles in Orthodox society, so there are strong efforts to resist such changes. Some of the strongest opponents of opening...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The virtue of being blunt
Part of the reason that Orthodox men are only now dealing with the crisis of “feminism” is that it’s only been in the last decade or so that some Orthodox women have been blunt enough to voice their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Most women don’t want to’ is not a reason
Most men don’t want to play in the NBA, therefore they shouldn’t be allowed to play basketball. Most men don’t want to be President of the United States, therefore they shouldn’t be allowed to take the...
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Women Caught in the Crossfire in Battle between RCA and Rabbi Avi Weiss
In my opinion, Rabbi Avi Weiss and his pet cause to ordain women as rabbis under the titles of “Rabbas” or ‘Maharats” has probably set the progression of orthodox women back by at least a few decades....
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