CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Essays

Chapter 1 Innovation and Authority: A feminist Reading of the“Women’s Minyan” Responsum

Rachel Adler Chapter 2

Gender Issue in Jewish Divorce John D. Rayner Chapter 3 Gender, Halakhah , and Women’s Suffrage: Responsa of the First Three Chief Rabbis on the Public Role of Women in the Jewish State David Ellenson and Michael Rosen

Chapter 4 Custom Drives Jewish Law on Women Elliot N. Dorff

Chapter 5 Halakhah, Minhag, and Gender Richard Rosenthal

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