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Sunday, December 8 • 10:35am - 11:30am
Time is on Our Side: A New Look at Mitzvot Aseh She ha Zman Grama

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New historical research suggests that when the rabbis formulated the rule exempting women from time bound, positive commandments (m. Kid. 1:7), they were not attempting to regulate women’s time nor were they offering accommodations to a preconceived notion of women’s schedules.These new findings call into question the explanatory value of traditional explanations for the rule and consider the implications this new take will have for contemporary Jewish feminists.

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Professor Tamar Ross

Tamar Ross is Professor Emerita of the Department of Jewish philosophy at Bar Ilan University. She has taught in many academic and religious settings in Israel, the United States, England and South Africa, and continues to teach at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem, with which she... Read More →

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Dr. Elizabeth Shanks Alexander

Elizabeth Shanks Alexander is an associate professor of Talmud and Rabbinics in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1998. She has published widely in academic forums on gender and rabbinic literature. Her... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2013 10:35am - 11:30am EST
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  Our Changing Rituals

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