Lately there?s been a lot of chatter about the plight of the poor frum woman, the poor oppressed frum woman, “oy, they have to sit in the back of the bus” “women can’t be rabbis or rabbas or yoatzei halacha”…
Chassidish Feminism
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Women should not be allowed to eat in the sukkah
I’ve gotten this picture from several folks and I just don’t understand what the big deal is? I think it’s like anything most of the klal is not used to and would be the same response toward any mitzvah in…
Women of the Wall is a sham
Pretty much the entire Jewish world is talking about Women of the Wall, they have either desecrated one of the worlds holy sites or made it holy by standing up for women’s rights, but I’m not sure that either are…
A Woman at the Wall; A Bystanders Experience of the Rosh Chodesh Sivan events
A Woman at the Wall; A Bystanders Experience of the Rosh Chodesh Sivan events The author who sent this to me wishes to remain anonymous. I was on the way back from Tahoe and Yosemite so I wasn’t even aware…
Blessed are you Lord who has not made me a woman!
The bracha of shelo asani isha is probably one of the only prayers we say on a daily basis that most folks can agree with. Amidst all of those prayers about redemption, incense, fear of the Lord, and sacrifices it’s nice…
Fum girls don’t become feminists
I’m not sure that women wanting to lain or say kiddush is necessarily feminism, but in the frum community it’s been deemed such and so I’ve been wondering why it is that frum girls usually don’t get into the feminism thing.…
5 ways that frum women can empower themselves
Frum and Feminsim are two words that are typically not used in the same sentence and when they are, it is to ridicule or accuse someone of not being frum because they have feminist tendencies, for instance Sara Hurwitz the…
The ladies almost dropped the Torah this Shabbos
I sat in shul bored out of my mind. I only learned later that I had missed Parshas Noach. It’s a great parshah to think about sex posts in shul, to think about how I could push people’s buttons by…
Women who say shema should put on talis and tefillin
Looking for an open door by Shira Salamone A few days ago, I took some flack for the following comment of mine to Heshy’s “I don’t understand feminists” Shira Salamone June 24, 2010 at 6:19 PM 110 comments, and not…
Jew-ish Theological Seminary proposes Pirkei Imos
The Jew-ish Theological Seminaries legal council has unanimously agreed to come up with a Pirkei Imos for people to balance out the more traditional Pirkei Avos. Rabbi Sarah Finkelman-Feinstein-Shapira who heads the council told Fum Satire that she has sat…
ROI Summit initial reactions
For those of you who don’t know, I wasn’t flown to Israel to perform at a comedy club in Jerusalem, I am just not that good, I was flown to Israel to participate in the ROI Summit which is a…