The female talmudists
By SAM SOKOL (Jerusalem Post)
10/07/2012 11:16
A small but growing number of women’s schools in Israel are providing talmudic education to their students.
Only several decades ago it would have been unthinkable for women to learn Talmud within Orthodox circles. The prevailing notion, which still holds sway over considerable portions of the haredi community, is that women have no place within the halls of Torah study and that their place is in the home. However, over the last few decades, and especially since the gains made by the feminist movement in bringing women into the workplace and academia on equal standing with men, Jewish women, both observant and not, have begun to study Torah on their own terms.
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