Gender Issues in Jewish Law

by Jacob, Walter; Zemer, Moshe

• ISBN13: 9781571812391
• ISBN10: 1571812393
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Radical changes in understandings of gender over the last two centuries are at the heart of some of the most controversial issues within Jewish life and law. They have influenced the basic concepts of Judaism, of family structure, of liturgy, of thoughts about leadership and of Halakhah. This volume discusses some of these changes and new definitions and how they continue to be reflected in the developing reform Halakhah.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Essays
Innovation and Authority: A feminist Reading of the "Women's Minyan" Responsum	p. 3
Gender Issue in Jewish Divorce	p. 33
Gender, Halakhah, and Women's Suffrage: Responsa of the First Three Chief Rabbis on the Public Role of Women in the Jewish State	p. 58
Custom Drives Jewish Law on Women	p. 82
Halakhah, Minhag, and Gender	p. 107
The Women in Reform Judaism: Facing or Avoiding the Issues	p. 130
Progressive Halakhah and Homosexual Marriage	p. 151
Reform Judaism and Same-Sex Marriage: A Halakhic Inquiry	p. 169
Selected Reform Responsa
Reform Judaism and Divorce	p. 187
A Reform Get	p. 191
Agunot	p. 195
Ordination of Women	p. 198
Women Wearing a Talit	p. 219
Marriage after a Sex-Change Operation	p. 222
Homosexual Convert	p. 226
Lesbians and Their Children	p. 228
Contributors	p. 229
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