Manoela Carpenedo, a native of Southern Brazil, is an anthropologist and sociologist of religion. Her latest book “Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil” (Oxford) ...

“I like to sit next to my husband during synagogue services, that’s why I don’t go to Chabad,” a very nice woman told me. So I asked her, “Do you follow the TV show Dancing with the Stars?” “Of course ...

At Lechu Neranena partnership minyan in Lower Merion, the mechitza, the partition used to divide the men and women in a prayer space, remains a fixture in the Orthodox community. However, instead of ...

I was behind the mechitza. I did not like it. How could it possibly happen, that I, a regular shulgoer in the Orthodox world, would find myself behind the mechitza at a Shabbat service? I was invited ...

As a rule, my husband and I don’t pray in non-egalitarian settings (or, at the very least, in ones that don’t count women in a minyan). So while I have been following the progress of partnership ...

Seeking a strategy for survival in a changing demographic landscape, members of the Rego Park Jewish Center may soon look to a mechitza as the answer to their prayers. The 65-year-old Conservative ...