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IH,
On Lebanon, see Sara Japhet, “‘Lebanon’in the transition from Derash to Peshat: Sources, etymology, and meaning”, in: Emanuel, Studies in Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and Dead Sea
Scrolls in Honor of Emanuel Tov, eds. S.M. Paul, R.A.
Kraft, L.H. Schiffman and W. Fields, Leiden-Boston, Brill,
2003.
Many thanks! Much of the article is previewable at http://tinyurl.com/7y7gdv5 and I will look up the missing pages at the library.
The previously Shmuel Safrai article “האם היתה קיימת עזרת נשים בבית הכנסת בתקופה העתיקה” is available at: http://www.jstor.org/pss/70024304 for those interested.
I haven’t been following this discussion but saw this most recent comment. In my book I have a long article on mechitzah in which, among other things, quote historians who disagree with Prof. Safrai(s).
FTR, I have not researched the topic myself, but there was a discussion about balconies and mechitzot to which I found a few sources to share along the way.
I read the article on RMM in Mishpacha, and thought it was a fascinating interview-far more revealing than either the interviews in the FTJN or the Yated.
IH wrote:
“Abba — so, causality aside, on average RWMO have more children, less education and less income than LWMO”
I would not generalize in that format. I know many who are RW MO who have at least a college education and who are economically well off.
Jon-It is apparent that R Gil may have deleted a series of links to Peter Singer’s writings that I posted last week. I stand by my reading of the links in question as the basis for my view of Singer’s views as repugnant to anyone who believes that man was created with a conscience and soul, as opposed to merely being a species of the animal world.
Regarding Prof. R. Safrai’s controversial 1963 article, it is interesting to note that it pre-dates “Radical Feminism” by about 5 years (contrary to all those who claim that it is “Radical Feminism” to blame for the rise of women’s issues within Orthodoxy).
But not Conservative Judaism.
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IH-IIRC, RYBS wrote his famous essay about mixed seating in the early to mid 1950s well before 1963. See Community, Covenant and Committment at Pages 129-136,139-149
Steve — so?