Berghahn Books
Gender Issues in Jewish Law
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About this book
Published in Association with the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah
General Editor: Walter Jacob
Author / Editor information
Walter Jacob was Senior Scholar of Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania. He also served as President of the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah. He is the author and editor of a number of titles including American Reform Responsa (1983), Liberal Judaism and Halakhah (1988) and Not by Birth Alone, Conversion to Judaism (1997).
--- Contributor: Moshe ZemerMoshe Zemer (1932-2011) was Director of the Freehof Insittue of Progressive Halakhah and a founder of the Movement for Progressive Judaism in Israel. He contributed to numerous articles on halakhah in the Israeli press and scientific journals and was author of The Sane Halakhah [Hebrew], (1993) which was translated into both German and English.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
viii - Part One ESSAYS
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Chapter 1 Innovation and Authority: A Feminist Reading of the “Women’s Minyan” Responsum
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Chapter 2 THE GENDER ISSUE IN JEWISH DIVORCE
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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
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Chapter 4 CUSTOM DRIVES JEWISH LAW ON WOMEN
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Chapter 5 HALAKHAH, MINHAG AND GENDER
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Chapter 6 THE WOMAN IN REFORM JUDAISM Facing or Avoiding the Issues
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Chapter 7 PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAH AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE
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Chapter 8 REFORM JUDAISM AND SAME-SEXMARRIAGE A Halakhic Inquiry
169 - Part Two SELECTED REFORM RESPONSA
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Reform Judaism and Divorce: American Reform Responsa, New York, 1983, # 162
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A Reform Get: Walter Jacob, Questions and Reform Jewish Answers, New York, 1992 # 233
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Agunot: Questions and Reform Jewish Answers, New York, 1992, # 234
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Ordination of Women: Yearbook, Central Conference of American Rabbis, Cincinnati, 1922, Vol. 32, pp. 156 ff
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Women Wearing a Talit: Yearbook, Central Conference of American Rabbis, New York, 1970, Vol. 80
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Marriage After a Sex-Change Operation: American Reform Responsa, New York, 1983, #137
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Homosexual Convert: Contemporary American Reform Responsa, New York, 1987, # 52
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Lesbians and Their Children: Contemporary American Reform Responsa, New York, 1987, # 200
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