RE: Kol Isha

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

Boy you have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with names.

>Some of the most
>famous torah scholars and educators at Yeshiva U. are women.

However, NONE of these names are "famous torah scholars"

Smadar Rosenzweig is not a YU but at Touro and was at Barnard as a Judaic 
Studies instructor.  She may lecture on a variety of Jewish topics 
including making comments on torah but she is neither a "famous torah 
scholar" nor a famous scholar.  I have met her at family celebrations, but 
don't know her personally.  I know her mother Prof. Yaffa Eliach and her 
extended family for many years.

Blu Greenberg _has_ taught at Yeshiva all right, but not only does she not 
teach Bible (we won't even comment on the "famous torah scholar" bit), but 
she has been one of the fighters against kol isha and all its ramifications 
for more than 20 years.   I have known Blu Greenberg for many years, but 
don't remember what she has taught at Yeshiva, but I know it isn't Bible. 
 Blu _is_ indeed famous, but she is famous for being a leader of Orthodox 
feminism who fights against kol isha.

I have never heard of Chaviva Levin and don't find her listed at any school 
at Yeshiva or anywhere else on the 'net.  I have no idea what or where she 
teaches, but she doesn't anywhere appear on the Yeshiva U. web pages.

If you had said Judith Hauptman, professor of Talmud, you would have been 
correct.  She is famous torah scholar, but she is at JTS.

This is getting tiresome.


Reyzl








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Subject:  Re: Kol Isha

In a message dated 9/24/99 5:09:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
reyzl (at) flash(dot)net
writes:

<< Oh yah, name one!?!   I think you are mixing up institutions.  You must
 mean JTS (has several) or Hebrew University (Nechama Leibowitz, z"l)
  >>

Smadar Rosensweig
Chaviva Levin
Blu Greenberg



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