A tallit-and-tefillin-wearing woman in a traditional Conservative synagogue?! An unorthodox—and non-orthodox—perspective on Jews and Judaism from a perpetual misfit. This blog, welcoming the entire Jewish community, is dedicated to those who take Judaism seriously, but not necessarily literally.
Israel just suffered a pogrom and is now at war, and we couldn't get even 20 people at synagogue this morning. What are we, an island in a sea of indifference?
P.S. This is the first time in the history of our synagogue that we're recited Avinu Malkenu on Shabbat. 😢
posted by Shira Salamone at 10:32 PM
Once upon a time, I belonged to a left-wing egalitarian Conservative synagogue, where I was one of a number of women who wore a tallit—and one of the few members who used an Orthodox prayer book (adding the Mothers, of course). Having moved since then, I now belong to a right-wing traditional Conservative synagogue, where I’m almost always the only woman wearing a tallit—and one of the few members who adds the Mothers. I seem destined to be forever . . . on the fringe.
2 Comments:
Few as you may be, thank you for your tefillot.
May we be answered with peace.
AnDat, Jerusalem: Amen!
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