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Reading and archive material.
Background reading, selected documents and remembrance material from across the life of the community.
Literature and resources
Reading around Shira's ideas and communal life.
This section gathers material for people interested in the ideas and halakhic background behind the minyan, including academic articles, publications and community resources.
Shira publications and resources
Halakhic and academic articles
Selected scholarly sources on women and Torah reading, partnership minyanim and related halakhic questions.
- Mendel Shapiro, "Qeri'at ha-Torah by Women: A Halakhic Analysis" (Edah, 2001)
- Daniel Sperber, "Congregational Dignity and Human Dignity: Women and the Reading of the Torah" (Edah, 2003)
- Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal and Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, "Guide for the Halachic Minyan" (2008)
- William Friedman, "Women as Shelihot Tzibbur for Hallel on Rosh Hodesh" (Milin Havivin, 2005)
- Debby Koren, Response article (Milin Havivin, 2006)
- William Friedman, "A Response to Debby Koren" (Milin Havivin, 2006)
- Elana Sztokman, "Some Rabbinic Sources on Women and Torah Reading" (2005)
- Avinoam Rosenak, "Dignity of the Congregation" (Nashim, 2007)
- Michael Broyde and Joel Wolowelsky, "Further On Women As Prayer Leaders and As Members of the Synagogue Prayer Quorum" (Judaism, 42:4, 1993)
- David Bigman, "A New Analysis of 'Kol B'Isha Erva'" (Responsum)
Books
News and coverage
Related communities
Memorial archive
In memory of Mark Baker z"l.
A home for reflections, essays and remembrance material connected with Mark Baker and the wider life of the community.
Hesped for Kerryn Baker
By Mark Baker.
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