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Women in Judaism have affected the course of Judaism over millenia. Their role is reflected in the Hebrew Bible, the Oral Law (the corpus of rabbinic literature), by custom, and by cultural factors. Although the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature present various female role models, religious law treats women in specific ways.
This very fact indicates the woman’s primary role in preserving Jewish identity and values. The above stated does not mean that the Jewish woman’s place is solely in the home and that she should not follow a career. Rather it is the realisation that the primary role of the Jewish woman is that of a homemaker – the home and family unit ...
History of Women's Ordination. Women Rabbis. Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
This is a timeline of women rabbis: Early figures and forerunners. 1590–1670: Asenath Barzani is considered the first female rabbi of Jewish history by some scholars, though she was neither ordained or officially recognized as such during her lifetime.
Post-Exilic Religion (800-600 BCE) The most profound spiritual and cognitive crisis in Hebrew history was the Exile. Defeated by the Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BC, the Judaean population was in part deported to Babylon, mainly the upper classes and craftsmen.
History. Fact Sheet. Timeline. Film Series. Reading Series. Honorary Committee. Timeline: 1654 to 2004. Marking Jewish women's experience in North America. 1654. A group of Jews, "23 souls, big as well as little," arrive in New Amsterdam. Records suggest that the majority of the adults may have been female. 1738.
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