The conference at the former balcony of the
Oranienburger
Strasse Synagogue
Women stand together with men,
on an egalitarian basis, on the Bima
In the decade which is just ending a fascinating
development has taken place in European Jewish life; increasingly, women are exercising
important ritual functions. There are women rabbis in London, Paris and Oldenburg, as well
as in Moscow, Minsk and Budapest. What does
this mean for Jewish tradition and continuity? What impact do these women have on
religious practices? Which themes have become more important? What are the new
challenges?
Berlin is the city in which Regina Jonas, the
world‘s first woman rabbi, served. With her murder in Auschwitz in 1944 an important
development in Judaism was cut off and set back by decades. The questions Regina Jonas
raised about Jewish tradition then are still relevant today. We remember her courage and
her difficult struggle for recognition as a rabbi. More than half a century after the
Shoah women rabbis, cantors, scholars and interested Jewish men and women from all over
Europe were invited to come to Berlin
and join us in discussing what it means to be Jewish.
More than 200 participants from all over Western and Eastern
Europe and some guests from the United States and Israel joined for lectures, services,
workshops, celebrating ...
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Opening talk:
Women on the Bima
with Elisa Klapheck (one of the initiators)
and Rabbi Daniela Thau (r)
photos: Burkhart Peter |
Diana
Pinto (Paris)
Towards an European Jewish Identity
[photo-exhibition] -
[program] - [reactions]
[history of women in the rabbinate]
- [women on the bima]
[start in german] - [start in
english]
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