Women in Judaism have affected the course of Judaism over millenia. Their role is reflected in the Hebrew Bible, the Oral Law (the corpus of rabbinic literature)...
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In modern Rabbinic Judaism, the traditional method of determining Jewishness relies on tracing one's maternal line. According to halakha, the recognition...
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majority of these women are associated with Progressive Jewish denominations (Reform, Conservative, and others). In Orthodox Judaism, the matter of ordination...
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In Judaism, especially in Orthodox Judaism, there are a number of settings in which men and women are kept separate in order to conform with various elements...
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pursuing spiritual goals. Asceticism has not been a dominant theme within Judaism, but minor-to-significant ascetic traditions have been a part of Jewish...
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Judaism (Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת, romanized: Yahăḏūṯ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic ethnic religion that comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal...
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Interfaith marriage in Judaism (also called mixed marriage or intermarriage) was historically looked upon with very strong disfavor by Jewish leaders,...
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Tzniut (redirect from Modesty in Judaism)
practice nowadays among Orthodox Jewish women. In Orthodox Judaism, men are generally not allowed to hear women sing, a prohibition called kol isha (literally...
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Conversion to Judaism (Hebrew: גִּיּוּר, romanized: giyur or Hebrew: גֵּרוּת, romanized: gerut) is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion...
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of the ribosome. Feminism in Israel Sexism in Israel Women in Judaism Women for Israel's Tomorrow Women of the Wall Women's Party (Israel) Gett: The Trial...
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ISBN 978-0-8264-1629-2. Swidler, Leonard (1976). Women in Judaism: The Status of Women in Formative Judaism. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0810809048...
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Jewish views on homosexuality (redirect from Homosexuality in Judaism)
The subject of homosexuality and Judaism dates back to the Torah. The book of Vayikra (Leviticus) is traditionally regarded as classifying sexual intercourse...
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Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות מסורתית, romanized: Yahadut Masortit), is a Jewish religious movement that regards the...
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Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the...
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Gender and Jewish studies (redirect from Gender and judaism)
present in Reconstructionist and Reform Judaism, but they also appear in Orthodox Judaism. Gender separation in Judaism Jewish feminism Women in Judaism Kate...
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Karaite Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות קראית, romanized: Yahadut Qara'it) or Karaism is a non-Rabbinical Jewish sect and a separate Judaic ethno-religion (in Eastern...
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Haredi Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות חֲרֵדִית, romanized: Yahadut Ḥaredit, IPA: [ħaʁeˈdi]) is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that is characterized by its strict...
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Forbidden relationships in Judaism (איסורי ביאה Isurey bi'ah) are intimate relationships which are forbidden by prohibitions in the Torah or rabbinical...
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Tzitzit (redirect from Fringes (in Scripture))
Tallitot: How Jewish Prayer Shawls Have Changed Since Women Began Wearing Them". Women in Judaism: Contemporary Writings. 3 (2). University of Toronto...
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criticism of Judaism and its texts, laws, and practices originated in inter-faith polemics between Christianity and Judaism. Important disputations in the Middle...
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Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ), formerly known as the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, is the women's affiliate of the Union for Reform Judaism...
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In Judaism, ritual washing, or ablution, takes two main forms. Tevilah (טְבִילָה) is a full body immersion in a mikveh, and netilat yadayim is the washing...
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United Torah Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות התורה, Yahadut HaTora), often referred to by its electoral symbol Gimel (ג), is a Haredi, religious conservative...
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Jewish religious movements (redirect from Divisions of Judaism)
"denominations", include diverse groups within Judaism which have developed among Jews from ancient times. Today in the west, the most prominent divisions are...
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In Judaism, views on abortion draw primarily upon the legal and ethical teachings of the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the case-by-case decisions of responsa...
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towards women, they are treated as women. Androgynos Gender and Judaism Intersex people and religion Intersex people in history "Arachin 4b ~ The Tumtum...
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Muscular Judaism (German: Muskeljudentum) is a term coined by Max Nordau in his speech at the Second Zionist Congress held in Basel on August 28, 1898. In his...
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Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (origin...
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is the subject of many narratives and laws in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and rabbinic literature. In Judaism, sexuality is viewed as having both positive...
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Blu Greenberg (category 21st-century American women writers)
Orthodox writer specializing in modern Judaism and women's issues. Her most noted books are On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition (1981), and Black...
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