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Jewish Gender & Feminism Quiz

How much do you know about gender issues in the Jewish past and present?

Even as Jewish women have attained ritual and leadership opportunities formerly restricted to them, the history of female exclusion in Judaism continues to linger. How much do you know about gender issues in the Jewish past and present?

Question 1 of 10
True or false: In the Bible, women are sometimes presented as equal to men, and sometimes as subordinate.
Question 2 of 10
Who advocates for "engendering" Judaism by making gender a fundamental criterion for understanding the Jewish past and envisioning the Jewish future?
Question 3 of 10
When were the first synagogue sisterhoods founded by rabbis?
Question 4 of 10
Which publication aims "to foster discussion of Jewish women's issues... and to give women greater choice in Jewish life"?
Question 5 of 10
What is the biblical precedent for allowing a woman to inherit her father's property, when she has no brothers?
Question 6 of 10
Which of these is not a para-rabbinic role assumed by women in the Modern Orthodox community?
Question 7 of 10
What are Orthodox women's tefillah groups?
Question 8 of 10
What do medieval Jewish legal authorities think about wifebeating?
Question 9 of 10
Which of these is not an available source of information about Jewish women's lives in the Middle Ages?
Question 10 of 10
Which of the following was NOT included in the "Call for Change" issued by the women of the Ezrat Nashim movement ing the 1970s?

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