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"If your wife is short, lean over and whisper" (Talmud, Bava Metzi'a 59). Rashi explains: "seek her advice". Although there can be many ways of understanding this, i wold like to offer the following:Rabbi Nachman has a teaching in which he...
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When i was in college in the late '60s, the feminist movement was just beginning. Ongoing debates were common in and out of class, as to the nature of femininity. Do women think and react differently from men by nature, or because the two sexes...
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First of all, we need to be clear that Torah is NOT an egalitarian document. There is a difference between an Israelite and a non-Israelite, between and Israelite and a Levi, between a Levi and a Kohen. I am a Levi. Only a Kohen may arise and do...
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About a year ago, I wrote a series on the history and beliefs of non-Orthodox groups. If there is interest, I can post it here as well. My intention in this article is not to bash or condemn, but rather to learn from history.The Conservative...
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Conservatism took a huge dive in membership after adopting the idea of ordaining women, and the subsequent acceptance of full female participation at religious services. But why? There is no doubt that much of this was plain sexism. But it goes...
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We have seen how pressures for "equality" of women in the Conservative movement brought about changes that none had foreseen at the beginning of the controversy, and how rather than expanding the movement, it left it in a state of near collapse....
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The women's movement has been the catalyst in all Jewish groups for raising difficult questions. Answers are even more difficult. Are we to allow, or even encourage, hitherto unknown practices in order to allow women on the one hand a sense of...
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