The conference at the former balcony of the
Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue
Women
stand together with men,
on an egalitarian basis, on the Bima
In the decade which is
just ending a fascinating development has taken place in European Jewish
life; increasingly, women are exercising important ritual functions. There
are women rabbis in London, Paris and Oldenburg, as well as in Moscow, Minsk
and Budapest. What
does this mean for Jewish tradition and continuity? What impact do these
women have on religious practices? Which themes have become more important?
What are the new challenges?
Berlin is the city in which
Regina Jonas, the world‘s first woman rabbi, served. With her
murder in Auschwitz in 1944 an important development in Judaism was cut off
and set back by decades. The questions Regina Jonas raised about Jewish
tradition then are still relevant today. We remember her courage and her
difficult struggle for recognition as a rabbi. More than half a century
after the Shoah women rabbis, cantors, scholars and interested Jewish men
and women from all over Europe were invited to come to
Berlin
and join us in discussing what it means to be Jewish.
More than 200 participants from all
over Western and Eastern Europe and some guests from the United States and
Israel joined for lectures, services, workshops, celebrating ...
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Opening talk:
Women on the Bima
with Elisa Klapheck (one of the initiators)
and Rabbi Daniela Thau (r)
photos: Burkhart Peter |
Diana Pinto (Paris)
Towards an European Jewish
Identity
[photo-exhibition]
- [program] - [reactions]
[history of women in the rabbinate] -
[women on the bima]
[start in german] - [start
in english]
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