The Hypocrisy in Protests against Ultra-Orthodox in Israel
…ies have revised some premodern standards of behavior to conform to modern Western sensibilities. But shouldn’t this selective contextualization be investigated? Why should contextualizing the status of women not include counting them in a prayer quorum? Or ordaining them as rabbis? Why is a leniency in modest dress, women’s education, and women’s participation in public life justified, but enabling a woman to be a witness prohibited? The Modern O…
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