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Shira Hadasha (Hebrew: שירה חדשה, lit. 'New Song') is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and Synagogue, located at 12 Emek Refaim, in the German Colony neighbourhood of Jerusalem, Israel. The congregation emphasizes a more expansive role for women in the synagogue. [1]
Such a service is also known as a Shira Hadasha-style minyan, after Kehillat Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem, among the first such prayer groups to be established, in 2001. Various structural innovations have been devised to permit women to lead prayers while maintaining distinct men's and women's sections, such as separate shtenders (reader's ...
For example, the Australian congregation Shira Melbourne notes on its website that it is "modeled on the Shira Hadasha community in Jerusalem." [19] One Los Angeles minyan, which also notes that it is "modeled after Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem", takes its name from this practice, calling itself the "Ten and Ten Minyan". [20]
Many of these groups have adopted the custom initially instituted by Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem to wait for a "ten-and-ten minyan", made up of ten men and ten women. Shira Hadasha has based many of its decisions on the writings of rabbis like Mendel Shapiro and Daniel Sperber.
In 2002, the first partnership minyans were established—Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem, and Darkhei Noam in New York City. These are Orthodox communities that maximize women's participation in the prayer to the full extent possible within halakha.
It was founded by Rabbi Amram Aburbeh in the Nahlat Ahim neighbourhood of Jerusalem and has been declared a historic preservation heritage site. Main article: Synagogues of Jerusalem North District
[3] The DC Minyan is part of a growing number of similar lay-led programs within the national and international Jewish community, such as New York's Kehilat Hadar [4] and Jerusalem's Shira Hadasha and Kehilat Kedem, [5] that are sometimes described as being part of the independent minyan movement. [6]
Tova Hartman is the daughter of Rabbi Prof. David Hartman.She was married to Moshe Halbertal, and they have three daughters. She is a founder of Kehillat Shira Hadasha, a congregation organized to increase women's participation and leadership within traditional Jewish prayer and halakha.