Where there is a smoke is there a fire. Or maybe the opposite?(Eng) | Bánkitó 2018

Where there is a smoke is there a fire. Or maybe the opposite?(Eng)

Over the last few decades, women have been gaining active roles in Jewish life, both in synagogue practice and in the field of learning and teaching. Two years ago a new program opened in Jerusalem that is preparing women to become rabbis in an orthodox frame, something that never happened before in Jewish history. Egalitarian minyanim (prayer groups) are flourishing and developing also within orthodox halakhic (Jewish religious law) contexts. Are we changing halakha or is halakha chaLLEnging us?

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