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    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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    Judaism (Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת‎ Yahăḏūṯ) is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion that comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal traditions...
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    however, the subject of women rabbis in Orthodox Judaism is more complex. Although a significant number of Orthodox women have been ordained as rabbis...
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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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  • 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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  • Liberal Judaism (formerly, until 2002: Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues) is one of the two WUPJ-affiliated denominations in the United Kingdom...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות מסורת, romanized: Yahadut Masoret), is a Jewish religious movement that regards the...
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    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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    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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    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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  • Jewish feminism (category Judaism and society)
    make the religious, legal, and social status of Jewish women equal to that of Jewish men in Judaism. Feminist movements, with varying approaches and successes...
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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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    Haredi Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות חֲרֵדִית, romanized: Yahadut Ḥaredit, IPA: [ħaʁeˈdi]; plural Haredim) is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that is characterized...
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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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  • In her 1981 work, On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition, Blu Greenberg studies the many ways in which modern women are excluded from Judaism. By...
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  • The Union for Traditional Judaism, founded in 1984, is a traditional, Halakhic Jewish outreach and communal service organization. It initially called...
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  • 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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  • Bereavement in Judaism (Hebrew: אֲבֵלוּת, avelut, "mourning") is a combination of minhag (traditions) and mitzvah (commandments) derived from the Torah...
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  • is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives. The ritual is referred to as "sitting shiva" in English. The shiva period lasts...
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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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  • 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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    figures Women in Buddhism Women in Church history Women in Hinduism Women in Islam Women in Judaism Women in the Bible A number of epistles found in the New...
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    Timeline of women rabbis Women as imams Women as theological figures Women in the Bible Women in Judaism Women rabbis The process by which a person is...
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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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  • Semitic neopaganism (category Judaism and paganism)
    Priestess Through Conversations with Contemporary Spiritual Leaders". Women in Judaism. 5 (2). Grenn, D'vorah. "Welcome..." The Lilith Institute. Retrieved...
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