Jeremy Rosen
Is Judaism Sexist?
Summary
Is Judaism sexist?The straight answer has to be yes, absolutely, every culture and civilization until relatively recently and still presently is sexist. It’s a matter of analyzing the extent of the sexism and considering how it can be addressed.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.
Interesting point that. The Halakha says, “If this woman has not married anybody else, you may marry her back. But if she has married somebody else, you can’t.” And that like many issues such as issues of , of who is can’t marry whom, there are ways around many of these laws. But that happens to be the case.
Yes, Susan. Like every, every single document until probably about 50 years ago.
Well, you know, no, I think the problem is in the state system, which is terribly underfunded. In fact, if you look at the religious schools, the religious schools have a much higher standard, both the modern religious and the non-religious. And it depends on what curriculum you’re talking about. The intellectual ability of men and women in the Haredi world of learning is phenomenal. But it’s not necessarily in areas that the secular world value. So the, it’s true that in the secular world, in the religious world, people are poor, but then the religious world takes care or gives free education to everybody within the religious communities. So there’s again, a disconnect between what religious education does. I have to say that having graduated in philosophy from Cambridge University, I found the intellectual demands of going to yeseva studying as an adult far greater than the pressure, intellectual pressure of philosophy at Cambridge.