As a rule, my husband and I don’t pray in non-egalitarian settings (or, at the very least, in ones that don’t count women in a minyan). So while I have been following the progress of partnership ...

There was a time when we first started dating when being apart from Jeremy left me feeling off-kilter. Being in shul was especially weird. Even though we could usually see each other across the ...

I was behind the mechitza. I did not like it. How could it possibly happen, that I, a regular shulgoer in the Orthodox world, would find myself behind the mechitza at a Shabbat service? I was invited ...

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I have a confession: I like davening on the women’s side of the mechitza. I like the feeling of womanly comradery: the whispered Shabbat Shaloms, the altos and sopranos melding together for Lecha Dodi ...

“I like to sit next to my husband during synagogue services, that’s why I don’t go to Chabad,” a very nice woman told me. So I asked her, “Do you follow the TV show Dancing with the Stars?” “Of course ...

The Prime Minister’s Office prohibits the bringing of a mechitza, a gender separation barrier, into the egalitarian section of the Western Wall following a series of serious disturbances at the site.

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The Prime Minister’s Office has decided that the insertion of a mehitza (partition used to separate men and women) into the egalitarian prayer plaza at the Western Wall (Ezrat Yisrael) is not ...

‘Mechitza’ (separation) at the Western Wall – and the unity of Israel The rabbis and leaders of the Jewish Theological Seminary prayed separately until the 1980s, as also did most Reform Jews in ...