Women’s Tefillah

I had been thinking about my eldest daughter’s bat mitzvah for a long time. We belong to a Modern Orthodox ...

As a Modern Orthodox high school student at Ramaz, I find meaning in women’s tefillah (prayer) services. After experiencing them at ...

The women wore a variety of costumes, from Disney princesses to Queen Esther herself. Listening to them read the Megillah ...

This past weekend, I was involved in an incredibly exhilarating and spiritually uplifting event: Nashir, the intercollegiate Jewish women’s arts ...

Last month, my daughter celebrated her Bat Mitzvah. In the months before her Bat Mitzvah we moved from the Boston-area ...

This past Simchat Torah, my mother began planning her synagogue’s first women’s mincha, afternoon service. She was inspired by the ...

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

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

As I flick through the pages of my pocket prayer book deliberating over which tunes to pick for Lecha Dodi ...

The story of Esther teaches us many things, amongst them, that timing is everything.This year, the women’s Megillat Esther reading ...