Category Archives: Feminism

Keeping It Dry

On his radio show Wednesday from Zambia, Dennis Prager said that many women in Africa have the practice of buying a certain product to keep themselves dry during sex, thinking that the increased friction will result in more pleasure for … Continue reading

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The Role Of Women In Orthodox Judaism

Rabbi Michael Broyde discusses this issue and Jewish law. Joseph Kaplan comments on Hirhurim: As always. R. Broyde’s clear and rigorous analysis is extremely helpful, certainly to me, in thinking through important issues, and we should be grateful to him … Continue reading

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Should Orthodox Judaism Have Female Rabbis?

Rabbi Gil Student writes in First Things: Women never served as ritual slaughterers, for example, although an actual prohibition was rejected in the Medieval legal literature. Nonetheless, when the question arose of whether a woman could, in actual practice, be … Continue reading

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The Role Of Women In Orthodox Judaism

In his second class on Rabbi Ben Zion Uziel for Torah in Motion, Dr. Marc B. Shapiro says: Rav Kook opposed women voting. He says the role of the woman is not to be in the public sphere. The Mercaz … Continue reading

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Was Bible Scholar Nechama Leibowitz A Feminist?

Rabbi Gil Student writes: The main question discussed is Nehama’s relationship with feminism. On the one hand, she was a female Torah teacher long before they became common, as they now are in some communities. And she was such a … Continue reading

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