Further Reading

Texts available free of charge:


Mendel Shapiro,Qeri'at ha-Torah by Women: A Halakhic Analysis,” The Edah Journal, 2001


Daniel Sperber, “Congregational Dignity and Human Dignity: Women and Public Torah Reading,” The Edah Journal, 2003


Elitzur and Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, “Guide for the Halachic Minyan,” 2008



Michael Broyde and Joel Wolowelsky, “Further On Women As Prayer Leaders & Their Role in Communal Prayer,” Judaism, 42:4, 1993, pp. 387-395


William Friedman, “Women as Shelihot Tzibbur for Hallel on Rosh Hodesh,” Milin Havivin 1, 2005, pp. 84-94


Debby Koren, “Everyone is an Expert in Hallel: On William Friedman’s Women as Shelihot Tzibur for Hallel on Rosh Hodesh” (Hebrew), Milin Havivin 2, 2006, pp. 226-219


William Friedman, “A Response to Debby Koren,” Milin Havivin 2, 2006, pp. 189-194



Yehuda Herzl Henkin,Qeri'at Ha-Torah by Women: Where We Stand Today,” The Edah Journal, 2001


Avinoam Rosenak, “‘Dignity of the Congregation’ as a Defense Mechanism: A Halakhic Ruling by Rabbi Joseph Messas,” Nashim, Fall, 2007



Texts available online for a fee:


Yehuda Herzl Henkin, Yosef Kanefsky, Ben Tzion Katz, Gidon Rosthstein, Mendel Shapiro, “Communications: Women’s Aliyyot in Contemporary Synagogues,” Tradition, 40:1, Spring 2007, pp. 102-121


Alick Isaacs, “Kevod Hatzibbur: Towards a Contextualist History of Women’s Role in Torah Reading,” Nashim, 12, Fall, 2006, pp. 261-288


Y.A. Korff and Joel B. Wolowelsky, “Communications: Uncommon Aliyyot,” Tradition, 41:1, Spring 2007, pp. 122-123


Gidon Rothstein, “Women’s Aliyyot in Contemporary Synagogues,” Tradition, 39:2, Summer 2005, pp. 36-58



Joel B. Wolowelsky, “On Kohanim and Uncommon Aliyyot,” Tradition, 39:2, Summer 2005, pp. 59-65



Wikipedia entries:


Shira Hadasha


Partnership Minyan



Books:


Daniel Sperber, Women and Men in Communal Prayer: Halakhic Perspectives, Ktav 2010


Daniel Sperber, The Path of Halakha: Women Reading the Torah (Hebrew), Rubin Mass 2007


Tova Hartman, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation, Brandeis 2007



Personal accounts:


The Human Spirit: Who’s afraid of Shira Hadasha? (Jerusalem Post)