Triger on Gender Segregation as Sexual Harassment: Zvi H. Triger (College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) School of Law) has posted Gender Segregation as Sexual Harassment (Tel Aviv University Law Review, Vol. 35, 2012) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Article argues that gender segregation in Israel is in fact a form of sexual [...]
Just when you thought the Rackman Center for the Advancement of Women’s Status at Bar-Ilan University wasn’t going to be attacked any more, the following from Arutz Sheva. MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich (Kadima) has published letters she sent earlier this week to Welfare Minister Moshe Kachlon and Bar Ilan President Moshe Kaveh, asking them to rethink [...]
David Golinkin’s new article “Kol B’ishah Ervah” – Is it Really Forbidden for Jewish Men to Listen to Women Singing? can be found here.
Today Daf Yomi began Ḥullin. Many years ago I was able to study most of the first two chapters with Rabbi Aryeh Strikovsky and I am looking forward to rediscovering some marginalia from that shiur. The tractate begins by addressing who is qualified to ritually slaughter animals. See this older post about women as ritual [...]
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization has published Ada Rapoport-Albert’s book Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816. From the publisher’s web site: Women are conspicuously absent from the Jewish mystical tradition. Even if historically some Jewish women may have experienced mystical revelations and led richly productive spiritual lives, the tradition does not [...]
On Avodah Zarah 39 is found the following story. וכן היה ר”ש בן אלעזר אומר: מעשה באשה אחת שנשאת לחבר, והיתה קושרת לו תפילין על ידו, נשאת למוכס, והיתה קושרת לו קשרי מוכס על ידו. Similarly R. Simeon b. Eleazar said: It happened that a woman married to a haver [i.e. someone who is trustworthy] [...]
At Divrei Chaim there is a post discussing some of the orthodox rabbinical discussions about women in leadership roles. This comes not so long after the Forward Sisterhood blog published the Sisterhood 50 of “America’s Influential Women Rabbis.” Today I just saw another list of influential women, but of a somewhat different nature. In the [...]
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