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Some thoughts on the nature of halakhic adjudication: women and minyan.
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PROFESSOR MICHAEL BROYDE IS RIGHT. Jewish law is and was sexist: it does not extend to women the same opportunities for spiritual expression and public leadership as it does to men. For the last five centuries, at least, key Jewish codes have excluded women from joining in the prayer quorum and serving as its leader. For Broyde, making this valid observation is sufficient. For me, the fact of women's ritual restrictions is only a starting point. My aim in this article is to extend an invitation to the halakhic and scholarly community to re-examine contemporary synagogue practices ...
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Women and Kaddish.
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; ...Indeed, a conclusion excluding women from saying Kaddish hardly...publicly, in the presence of a minyan and two talmidei hakhamim...halakhic debate over whether women can be counted in the requisite minyan(1) but on whether or not they can say the berakha. As women cannot receive an aliya ...
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Sunnybrook & Women's Foundation.(Appointments)(Goldthorp, Kevin )(Brief Article)
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Further on women as prayer leaders and their role in communal prayer: an exchange, communal prayer and women. (response to Judith Hauptman, Judaism, vol. 42, p. 94, 1993)(includes related article)
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; ...ahronim) -- rules that women do not count in a quorum/minyan, even for the tenth person...known: In situations where women do count in the minyan/quorum, they should be...is identical, and that women count in the minyan/quorum needed to recite...
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