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,” Edah, 2001
Daniel Sperber, “Congregational Dignity and Human Dignity: Women and Public Torah Reading,” Edah, 2003
Elitzur A. and Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, “Guide for the Halachic Minyan,” 2008
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
Elana Sztokman, “Some Rabbinic Sources on Women and Torah Reading,” 2005
Avinoam Rosenak, “‘Dignity of the Congregation’ as a Defense Mechanism: A Halakhic Ruling by Rabbi Joseph Messas,” Nashim, Fall, 2007
Michael Broyde and Joel Wolowelsky, “Further On Women As Prayer Leaders & Their Role in Communal Prayer,” Judaism, 42:4, 1993, pp. 387-395
Wikipedia entries:
Shira Hadasha
Partnership Minyan
Books:
Daniel Sperber, Women and Men in Communal Prayer: Halakhic Perspectives, Ktav 2010
Daniel Sperber, The Path of Halakha: Women Reading the Torah (Hebrew), Rubin Mass 2007
Tova Hartman, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation, Brandeis 2007
In the news and around the web:
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
Review of Daniel Sperber’s “Darkah shel Halakha”
"Simply not honored? The ‘hypersensitivities’ of Jewish women" (response to review)
The Human Spirit: Who’s afraid of Shira Hadasha? (Jerusalem Post)
Responsa:
David Bigman, “A New Analysis of "Kol B'Isha Erva"
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
