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Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to 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, have opened up within all major branches of the Jewish religion.
This is an alphabetical list of Jewish feminists. ... Jewish feminism; Judaism and women; Jewish left; List of feminists; Jewish mother stereotype; Jewish-American ...
This account is regarded as apocryphal and likely created in the early Hasmonean period [1] 150-100: At some point during this period, the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) was finalized and canonized. Jewish religious texts written after Ezra's time were not included in the canon, though they gained popularity among various Jewish groups.
According to Judith Plaskow, the main grievances of early Jewish feminists were women's exclusion from the all-male prayer group or minyan, women's exemption from positive time-bound mitzvot (mitzvot meaning the 613 commandments given in the Torah at Mount Sinai and the seven rabbinic commandments instituted later, for a total of 620), and ...
According to Judith Plaskow, who has focused on feminism in Reform Judaism, the main issues for early Jewish feminists in these movements were the exclusion from the all-male prayer group or minyan, the exemption from positive time-bound mitzvot, and women's inability to function as witnesses, and to initiate divorce. [129]
First World Congress of Jewish Women, 1923; Jewish feminism. List of Jewish feminists; Women as theological figures. Women rabbis and Torah scholars; Rebbetzin (Yiddish) or Rabbanit (Hebrew) (Orthodox rabbi's wife) List of women in the Bible; Bais Yaakov (schools for Haredi girls) Niddah (menstruation laws)
Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810 – August 4, 1892) [1] was a suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker who has been called the “first Jewish feminist.” [2] Her career spanned from the 1830s to the 1870s, making her a contemporary to the more famous suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. [3]
Jewish women in the early modern period played a role in all Jewish societies, though they were often limited in the amount that they were permitted to participate in the community at large. The largest Jewish populations during this time were in Italy, Poland-Lithuania, and the Ottoman Empire. Women's rights and roles in their communities ...