Literature
We’ve put up some reading material for anyone interested in learning a little more about the ideas and halakha behind our minyan.
Articles:
Mendel Shapiro, “Qeri'at ha-Torah by Women: A Halakhic Analysis,” The Edah Journal, 2001
Daniel Sperber, “Congregational Dignity and Human Dignity: Women and Public Torah Reading,” The Edah Journal, 2003
Elana Sztokman, “Some Rabbinic Sources on Women and Torah Reading,” 2005
Elitzur and Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, “Guide for the Halachic Minyan,” 2008
Michael Broyde and Joel Wolowelsky, “Further On Women As Prayer Leaders & Their Role in Communal Prayer,” Judaism, 42:4, 1993, pp. 387-395
William Friedman, “Women as Shelihot Tzibbur for Hallel on Rosh Hodesh,” Milin Havivin 1, 2005, pp. 84-94
Debby Koren, “Everyone is an Expert in Hallel: On William Friedman’s Women as Shelihot Tzibur for Hallel on Rosh Hodesh” (Hebrew), Milin Havivin 2, 2006, pp. 226-219
William Friedman, “A Response to Debby Koren,” Milin Havivin 2, 2006, pp. 189-194
Avinoam Rosenak, “‘Dignity of the Congregation’ as a Defense Mechanism: A Halakhic Ruling by Rabbi Joseph Messas,” Nashim, Fall, 2007
Wikipedia entries:
Shira Hadasha
Partnership Minyan
Books:
Tova Hartman, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation, Brandeis 2007
Daniel Sperber, The Path of Halakha: Women Reading the Torah (Hebrew), Rubin Mass 2007
Personal accounts:
The Human Spirit: Who’s afraid of Shira Hadasha? (Jerusalem Post)
In the news:
AJN: Shira Hadasha receives first Torah for Shavuot
Moment: An Orthodox Feminist Revolutionary
Haaretz: An Egalitarian Synagogue, on Both Sides of the Mechitza
Why Shira Hadasha is Orthodox
Responsa:
Responsa on Rabbinic Ordination of Women
Music:
Nava Tehila on Facebook
Nava Tehila Album
Websites:
ShiraHadasha.com
Miscellaneous:
Simchat Bat Ceremony, for the birth of a daughter
