<![CDATA[Jezebel: Synagogue]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Synagogue]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/synagogue http://jezebel.com/tag/synagogue <![CDATA[Rabbi: "My Wife Is Very Knowledgeable" About Fashion]]> A Manhattan synagogue will make sure fashionistas have a place to spend Rosh Hashana during Fashion Week. The Chabad of the West 60s temple will also make special prayers for Jewish designers like Zac Posen's and Diane von Furstenberg's collections. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5628791&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Can One Woman Start An "Orthodox Feminist Revolution?"]]> Tova Hartman is challenging some of the tenets of Orthodox Judaism by founding a traditional Orthodox synagogue that allows women unprecedented rights. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5140386&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Celebrate The Season: Make A Toy Temple!]]> My childhood was perhaps best defined by two things: My Jewish day school education and my love of playing with dolls. So it's no surprise that I am immensely fascinated by the blog Juggling Frogs, on which a woman named Carolyn chronicles her life as a "Torah-observing" wife and mother. Carolyn, you see, built her daughters a to scale dollhouse shul. (That would be 'synagogue,' to those of you not raised in Yiddish-speaking homes.) Carolyn's daughters had begged her for their very own Orthodox synagogue for their dollies, and so Carolyn got cracking. But there were many challenges she had to face!
I used fancier materials than we normally use for one of our standard doll houses, in order to show honor for the synagogue in the abstract, and for the Torah and its accessories. I gave up some of my real beads and fabrics, and spent more time on it than one of my 'normal' dollhouses. I wanted there to be room for a at least whole minyan (10 men) of men, and a comparable number of seats for the ladies. I wanted the Torah and its accouterments to be somewhat accurate for both educational and play value.
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