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qualify myself to participate.
If women have the opportuni-
ty, they should be qualified to
use it."
Rachel Galazan, 46, also
wanted to take part in the
service. "As a child in Israel,
I had religious training but
women did not participate.
Girls rarely went to shul, and
if they did they did not sit
with the men.
"When I turned 13 I had a
bat mitzvah party for my
family but we did not cele-
brate in the synagogue. It was
like a birthday party and the
tradition is to have cake and
sit around and sing. I wanted
to take this class so I could
participate in the synagogue
and read from the Torah."
As chairman of the ritual
committee at Adat Shalom,
Rachel Maisel, 54, has had
aliyahs and chanted the
blessings during the Torah
reading. "But I wanted to
learn to chant the Torah and
Haftorah," she says. "I
wanted to go through the pro-
cess of study. I was raised in
an Orthodox home. My par-
ents are from Asia, I'm from
England and I lived in South
Africa. I was taught to read
Hebrew but of course women
never participated in services.
"I wanted to be part of the
group of women who have
taken this class and enjoyed
it."
According to Rabbi Groner,
Shaarey Zedek's adult bat
mitzvah class began in
response to the desire of
women in the congregation
"to participate in the
ceremony of affirmation of
Jewish loyalty and respon-
sibility that we call bat mitz-
vah, and to share in an ex-
perience of Jewish learning
and undergo a program of
Jewish study."
The four-year-old adult bat
mitzvah ceremony at Shaarey
Zedek is also held on
Shavuot. "On the festival of
Shavuot we read the Book of
Ruth," Rabbi Groner ex-
plains. "It is the story of a
woman who accepted Juda-
ism in her adult life. . .
"Shavuot is also the time
when we celebrate the giving
of the Ibrah to the Jewish
people, so it is the appropriate
time for celebrating the ac-
ceptance of a high level of
Jewish learning and commit-
ment that is expressed by
those who become bat mitz-
vah as adults." ❑
Correction
Robyn Stern's name was
misspelled in the photo-
graph on last week's Up
Front page.
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Leonard Borman
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