Jewish feminist movement

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intellectual movement religious reform movement social movement

The Jewish feminist movement is a social, religious, and intellectual effort that challenges patriarchal norms within Judaism and advocates for gender equality in Jewish law, ritual, theology, and communal life.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Jewish feminism	1
JewishFeministOrganizations	1
JewishFeministScholarship	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	intellectual movement ⓘ religious reform movement ⓘ social movement ⓘ
addressesDomain	Halakha NERFINISHED ⓘ Jewish communal structures ⓘ Jewish liturgy ⓘ Jewish theology ⓘ
advocatesFor	egalitarian prayer services ⓘ equal access to Jewish education ⓘ inclusion of women’s experiences in Jewish texts and commentary ⓘ inclusive liturgical language ⓘ ordination of women as rabbis ⓘ recognition of women’s Torah scholarship ⓘ reform of divorce laws in Judaism ⓘ solutions to the agunah problem ⓘ women’s participation in ritual ⓘ women’s religious leadership ⓘ
critiques	androcentric interpretations of Jewish texts ⓘ gender hierarchy in synagogue life ⓘ patriarchal communal leadership patterns ⓘ
emergedIn	20th century ⓘ
hasAspect	communal activism ⓘ historical recovery of Jewish women’s lives ⓘ legal reinterpretation ⓘ ritual innovation ⓘ theological critique of male God-language ⓘ
hasKeyConcept	Jewish women’s studies ⓘ egalitarian minyan ⓘ feminist midrash ⓘ gender-inclusive halakhic interpretation ⓘ intersection of gender and Jewish identity ⓘ women’s Torah reading ⓘ
hasMainGoal	challenge patriarchal norms within Judaism ⓘ promote gender equality in Jewish communal life ⓘ promote gender equality in Jewish law ⓘ promote gender equality in Jewish ritual ⓘ promote gender equality in Jewish theology ⓘ
includesCurrentWithin	Conservative Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ Orthodox Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ Reconstructionist Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ Reform Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ secular Jewish culture ⓘ
influencedBy	civil rights movement NERFINISHED ⓘ liberal feminism ⓘ second-wave feminism ⓘ
operatesWithin	Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ
seeksToChange	exclusion of women from certain religious obligations ⓘ gender roles in Jewish family law ⓘ male-only religious authority structures ⓘ

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Standing Again at Sinai → influencedBy → Jewish feminist movement ⓘ

Agunot (chained wives) → addressedBy → Jewish feminist movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Agunot

this entity surface form: JewishFeministOrganizations

Agunot (chained wives) → topicOf → Jewish feminist movement ⓘ

subject surface form: Agunot

this entity surface form: JewishFeministScholarship

Susannah Heschel → fieldOfWork → Jewish feminist movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Jewish feminism