1st Edition
Jewish Women's Torah Study Orthodox Religious Education and Modernity
By Ilan Fuchs
Copyright 2014
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership. Jewish Women’s Torah Study addresses the question of women's integration in the halachic-religious system at this pivotal intersection.
The contemporary debate regarding women’s Torah study first emerged in the second half of the... Read more
Introduction 1 Torah Studies by Women: The Halachic Infrastructure 2 Fighting Assimilation: Women's Education in Eastern European Orthodoxy 3 Women’s Education and the Learners’ Society 4 TheTorah Study for Women in the New World: The American Experience 5 "Women Shall Encircle Man": Torah Study for Women in the Teachings of R Menahem Mendel Schneerson 6 Satmar and Women's Education: Education as a Root Cause of Promiscuity 7 Moderate Orthodoxy and Women’s Torah Study
Biography
Ilan Fuchs is a research associate in the Hadassah Brandeis Institute Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and Law. His research interests include; Jewish law, history of Jewish Orthodoxy, gender and religion. His most recent articles include; "Women’s Testimony in Jewish Law," (forthcoming, Hebrew Union College Annual) and "The Yeshiva as a political Institution," (forthcoming, Modern Judaism).
