tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629474796767869287.post1761948464687377598..comments2020-03-22T02:25:24.812-07:00Comments on Tongue & Lung: Orthodox FeminismHillary B. Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07069424971869146698noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629474796767869287.post-91531517871239403012014-04-08T12:54:42.651-07:002014-04-08T12:54:42.651-07:00Hi there,
I'm the author of the tzitzit piece ...Hi there,<br />I'm the author of the tzitzit piece you mentioned; the Forward mistitled it, and has since changed it. The article was about my experiences as a teenage girl who wears tzitzit, and what that says abut my views as a halakhically observant feminist. I do not identify as Orthodox, and part of the reason for that is that I see myself as part of a larger community of observant, feminist women. (A larger part is the egalitarianism issue.)<br /><br />Thank you you for your words and your work!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12603346947097751840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629474796767869287.post-90658671550534822542014-04-08T12:49:24.073-07:002014-04-08T12:49:24.073-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12603346947097751840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629474796767869287.post-75012698760404356702014-04-08T12:47:38.003-07:002014-04-08T12:47:38.003-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12603346947097751840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629474796767869287.post-73371310772032353822014-03-03T07:30:23.816-08:002014-03-03T07:30:23.816-08:00"On the ride home, we discussed another comme..."On the ride home, we discussed another comment from the evening where Dr. Gorsetman told a story about an Orthodox Jewish woman who was a big neurologist - head of her hospital department AND an Orthodox Jew who attended an Orthodox shul. One day she walked into shul, in to the women's side of course and said "I can't do this anymore" and subsequently just quit going to shul. "This" was the fact that at her hospital she wasn't a 2nd class citizen who needed to be hidden away in order not to tempt men.<br /><br />The shame of that was, as the two of us saw it, was that she quit going to shul as if there were no other Jewish options out there that could provide her with an alternative. But again, somehow those options are just not legitimate."<br /><br />I would love to hear more about this topic. To stop going to shul means to externally cut out a piece of her life that previously had been very important to her identity and her life. It takes a huge amount of planning to get Shabbat dinner on time in the winter, to plan that with your surgery schedule etc, and to then feel relegated to what you percieve as "less than" in the religious scope is a great reason to quit. But what to replace it with? That is the question. When Orthodoxy doesn't fit, then what does? A lot of people are looking for that answer. <br />bookwormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410876108957689173noreply@blogger.com