Talk:Jewish feminism

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 27 August 2019 and 5 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Zack3133.

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 January 2019 and 23 April 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Gfbarron, Miriamlupovitch.

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Various Edits/Additions

Using the secondary source, The Jews of The United States by Hasia R. Diner, I plan to make numerous changes throughout this page with detail from the source chapters on Jewish Feminism and New Rituals. Hasia Diner is a distinguished Professor and Director of American Jewish History at several different universities and institutions. After receiving her M.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Chicago, she went on to write over 10 books on American Jewish and Jewish Womens’ history and was awarded the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program and the Guggenheim Fellowship. In these chapters of the book she highlights individuals of the movement and some changes made in Jewish practice as a result, two areas I would like to expand upon here.

Under the Women in Humanistic Judaism section, I plan to write how Jewish Feminist Ernestine Rose led the push for women’s rights to inherit property and spoke out against anti-Semitism throughout her efforts (350). I want to reference the Feminist Press, a nonprofit organization founded by Florence Howe to educate women of their rights and to accentuate feminist perspectives (350) and the Boston Women’s Health Collective’s book, Our Bodies, Ourselves, an empowering guide to women’s health (351). In the Women in Jewish religious law, clergy, schools, groups, and rituals section, where it describes chanting blessings at the Torah, I want to add the formal name of this privilege, called “Aliyah”. To this I will include the statistics on the number of congregations that actually adopted this newfound right of Jewish women in the years to follow (351). Next I want to acknowledge Shlomo Riskin as the rabbi at Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue (353) and Gerson Cohen, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary (355). I’m going to link both his of their personal Wikipedia pages to their names for further reference. Within the timeline, I plan to write a new paragraph on the formation of the Union for Traditional Conservative Judaism in 1984 (356) and one on the Institute of Traditional Judaism in 1989 (356). I am also writing a paragraph on new practices enacted in the early 1970s. Some include how Jewish women began untraditionally staging public ceremonies for the births of their daughters, forming special groups for observance of Rosh Hodesh, and placing a goblet of water, named Miriams’ cup, on the Seder table for Passover (356). Finally, I plan to form an entirely new subsection on Literature and Media of Jewish Feminism. I will include detail on the significance of the Jewish Feminist magazine Lilith from 1973 (356-357) and several noteworthy Jewish women authors including Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Maud Goodman, Nessa Rappaport, Tova Mirvis, and Pearl Abraham with name links to their biographical Wikipedia pages as well (357). Last, I plan recount Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, a retelling of the biblical story of Dinah who, to Jewish feminists, symbolized the religious oppression they were fighting to end (357).

I expect my contributions to total around 400 words throughout the page, the majority condensed to the new paragraphs I write. If anyone wants to comment on these changes, please let me know on this Talk Page or on my Talk Page. Zack3133 (talk) 09:48, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Notes for future editors restructuring article

Possible structure and ordering of article

• General - pre-history, history
• Major subtypes: Israeli, Mizrahi, Orthodox
• Major Issues: Issues: Marriage and Divorce, Niddah, Mikveh, Get, Agunah, Minyan, Partnership minyan, Ordination, Yoatzot, Sexuality, Tzniut, Negiah, Yichud
• Groups - Bat Shalom, CQJ, NCJW, Shira Hadasha, WOW, JOFA,Kolech, Chochmat Nashim, Nivcharot, U'Bizchutan
• Denominational responses: Orthodox (modern, Haredi), Conservative, Reform, other
• People - notable Jewish feminists

Other factors

• Truncated sentences that are little more than "in [year], ___ happened for the first time."

I.am.a.qwerty (talk) 10:48, 19 May 2021 (UTC)