Rabbi Gail Diamond teaches Psalms at the Conservative Yeshiva and serves as the Yeshiva's Associate Director. She teaches an ongoing class in the Project Oded program at the Fuchsberg Center for Conservative Judaism and has taught for the Academy for Jewish Religion, Bat Kol Institute and other adult learning programs. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and received ordination from the...
Event Information
Date & Time
January 27, 2012 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Location
Taube Hillel House at the Ziff Center, Student Lounge
565 Mayfield Avenue
Stanford 94305
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Women's Voices: From Torah to Contemporary Israel Featuring Rabbi Gail Diamond
Description
Women’s singing is not new in Judaism – in the book of Exodus Miriam leads a song! But in the Israeli news, women’s singing at official army events is credited with igniting the current, sometimes violent controversy between groups of Jews. Why do some Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox men refuse to be present when women sing at official events, while others sit quietly? Did the Talmud forbid men listening to women singing in all circumstances, or only sometimes? We will study traditional sources and a range of contemporary viewpoints to form our own critical understanding of an issue at the center of the struggles over religion in the public sphere in Israel today.
Speakers
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- Associate Director, Conservative Yeshiva of United Synagogue
