Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION viii
5. Part One ESSAYS
6. Chapter 1 Innovation and Authority: A Feminist Reading of the “Women’s Minyan” Responsum 3
7. Chapter 2 THE GENDER ISSUE IN JEWISH DIVORCE 33
8. Chapter 3 GENDER, HALAKHAH, AND WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Responsa of the First Three Chief Rabbis on the Public Role of Women in the Jewish State 58
9. Chapter 4 CUSTOM DRIVES JEWISH LAW ON WOMEN 82
10. Chapter 5 HALAKHAH, MINHAG AND GENDER 107
11. Chapter 6 THE WOMAN IN REFORM JUDAISM Facing or Avoiding the Issues 130
12. Chapter 7 PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAH AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE 151
13. Chapter 8 REFORM JUDAISM AND SAME-SEXMARRIAGE A Halakhic Inquiry 169
14. Part Two SELECTED REFORM RESPONSA
15. Reform Judaism and Divorce: American Reform Responsa, New York, 1983, # 162 185
16. A Reform Get: Walter Jacob, Questions and Reform Jewish Answers, New York, 1992 # 233 191
17. Agunot: Questions and Reform Jewish Answers, New York, 1992, # 234 195
18. Ordination of Women: Yearbook, Central Conference of American Rabbis, Cincinnati, 1922, Vol. 32, pp. 156 ff 198
19. Women Wearing a Talit: Yearbook, Central Conference of American Rabbis, New York, 1970, Vol. 80 219
20. Marriage After a Sex-Change Operation: American Reform Responsa, New York, 1983, #137 222
21. Homosexual Convert: Contemporary American Reform Responsa, New York, 1987, # 52 226
22. Lesbians and Their Children: Contemporary American Reform Responsa, New York, 1987, # 200 228
23. CONTRIBUTORS 229