This Shavuot, we are in the golden age of female Torah study
There are so many female rabbi-scholars of Torah that it is no longer remarkable
There are so many female rabbi-scholars of Torah that it is no longer remarkable
Miriam Udel is both an ordained rabbi and an acclaimed professor of Yiddish literature at Emory University
I once spoke to a group of elderly Jews about the advances in women’s Torah study. One woman in the audience eagerly raised her hand. She said that she was born in Krakow, and was the downstairs neighbor of Sarah Shenirer, the founder of the Bais Yaakov schools. “Believe me,” she said, “the rabbis were…
Dear Rabbinical Council of America, Do you want me to leave? Do you want 17-year-old girls who care about Judaism to leave Orthodoxy? Do you want them to leave Judaism altogether? Because that is what is going to happen if you don’t give us a seat at your table. I am a 17-year-old girl who…