541-Year-Old Jewish Prayer Book Shows Women Can Be Equal A siddur from 1471 has revealed an early example of egalitarian Jewish prayer, presenting historical attempts to battle gender inequality. “This Siddur proves that the degrading attitudes towards women, which we are seeing in certain extreme religious communities in Israel today, are a modern distortion of [...]
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Ancient Jewish Text Claims Women Are Equal
Posted: January 9, 2012 in Jewish ReligionTags: Conservative, Conservative Judaism, God, Israel, Jew, Jews and Women, Judaism, Rabbinical Assembly, Siddur
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