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ov. 23 marks the first time
Orthodox women will
gather in the Midwest for a
conference on women,
Halachah and modern living.
Planners are adamant that this
gathering is not a spinoff of the first
international conference for Orthodox
women last February in New York.
Orthodox feminist Blu Greenberg, a
planner of the New York conference
(which will repeat Feb. 15-16, 1998),
says the strength of the February event
was the networking among Orthodox
women.
"Many women said just coming to
the conference and finding other
women thinking and feeling the same
way they are, dealing with issues of
identity as a woman, feminist,
Orthodox Jew," was powerful, she says.
"Exposure to ideas and what's possible
within the parameters of Halachah.is
exhilarating."
The Chicago conference will look at
issues such as women's prayer, female
religious leadership and practices that
may enhance a woman's religious life
within the confines of Jewish law,
Greenberg adds.
Tzivia Garfinkel, chair of the
Chicago conference, says Michigan
women have registered for the event,
including Nechama Glowgower, reb-
betzin of the Ann Arbor Orthodox
Minyan, and Susann Codish, president
of Or Chadash Congregation in
Huntington Woods. Huntington
Woods resident Rene Phillips is the
local coordinator.
"I'm hoping to get a better sense of
how educated women can participate
fully in and contribute more to
Judaism and how to get Orthodoxy to
value a woman's intellect," Codish says.
The conference- (8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 23), at the Mayer Kaplan .
JCC in Skokie, Ill., costs $45 per per-
son.
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keynote speakers: Shira Breuer, princi-
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pal of the Pelech School for Girls in
Jerusalem, speaking on the evolution of
women's roles in observant Judaism;
Greenberg, on the modern Orthodox
agenda; Rabbi Dovid Silber, from the
—
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Drisha Institute, about women and
learning; and Rabbi Saul Berman, of
Edah, on women, Halachah and
modernity.
After the New York conference,
several Orthodox Chicago women
met to brainstorm about a Midwest
event. In Skokie, "a center of modern
Orthodoxy," the group of women —
some who cover their hair, some who
don't — wanted to "give voice to the
modern Orthodox woman, who is
Blu Greenberg: The power of network-
ing among Orthodox women.
sometimes being eclipsed and can feel
less secure of herself," Garfinkel says.
But they didn't want to exclude
women "in the more right-wing com-
munity because there isn't much of a
high level in general that's offered to
Orthodox women," she says. Ell
For information on the Midwest
Conference on. Women, Halachah
and Modernity, call (847) 675-
2200, Ext. 120.