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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
Which of these is not a para-rabbinic role assumed by women in the Modern Orthodox community?
Question 2 of 10
Jewish feminists have worked extensively on all these causes except
Question 3 of 10
True or false: In medieval mystical theology, all of God's ten attributes are female.
Question 4 of 10
True or false: The mystics conceive of the relationship between God and the Jewish people in sexual terms, with God as male and the Jewish people as female.
Question 5 of 10
According to the Bible, childless widows are the legal responsibility of whom?
Question 6 of 10
Which of the following is a quote from Golda Meir?
Question 7 of 10
Which of the sefirot (mystical attributes of God) evokes a female aspect of God?
Question 8 of 10
As a general rule, women are exempted from what commandments, according to rabbinic Judaism?
Question 9 of 10
In 1975, the Reform movement introduced what concept in its new prayer book Gates of Prayer?
Question 10 of 10
Which of these adjectives do rabbinic sources use to describe women?

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