women leading prayer

Women of the Tent: The Power of Women’s Prayer Spaces

It was a sunny winter day in Boca Raton, Florida. My mother and I approached the home where local history ...

Between the Holy and the Frustrating

It’s Friday afternoon in a quiet Maryland suburb. Cars pull into driveways and kids get off school buses, ready to ...

Three Generations of Female Torah Readers

Three females — a 63-year-old, a 41-year-old, and an 11-year-old — have much in common. In addition to their blond, ...

Challenging our Assumptions about Women’s Inclusion

“You should volunteer to lead the Orthodox minyan, prayer services, you have the opportunity to make a Kiddush HaShem, sanctification ...

Mincha in the Midwest

This past Shabbat as I walked to synagogue for mincha, afternoon services, I was thinking about how I would introduce ...

Praying like a Lady

Don’t be mad, but I am ordaining myself as a Hazzanista, which is like a cantor, barista, and fashionista rolled ...

Hitting a Creative Wall

I didn’t mind the mechitza  at first. The wall—more frequently a short partition—separating men and women in ritual spaces was ...

Torah for One. Torah for All.

Two years ago a number of parents in my community approached me for assistance. Their daughters would all become b’not ...

Leading Seder for the First Time

This was my first Pesach away from home. I am a first-year college student and although I love my college and ...

Including Agunot on Purim in Montreal

Every year costumed women and children arrive from communities across the island, all aglow and abuzz with great anticipation. Purim ...