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Welcome to WikiProject Jewish Women, a collaboration area for Wikipedians interested in improving coverage of Jewish Women.

Scope

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What it means to be Jewish is a complex question; "being Jewish" is somewhere between a nationality, ethnicity, religion, and culture. With this complex question in mind, we seek to expand Wikipedia's coverage of:

  • Historical and contemporary Jewish women
  • Jewish women's organizations
  • Women's roles in and contributions to the Jewish faith
  • Women's contributions to significant Jewish historical events
  • Topics, media, and other issues that are related to Jewish women

Limits:

  • Time period: There is no time period limit to this project. Everything from Biblical times to today falls within the scope of this project.
  • Identity: Any person or institution that identifies as Jewish is welcome. This includes individuals who identify as Jewish culturally but not theologically and converts.
  • Sexuality/gender identity: Queer women are in the scope of this project as are Jewish transgender women. For further guidance, see WikiProject: LGBT Studies.
  • Race: Jews are found in all corners of the world, and belong to many different racial and ethnic groups. Jews of all races are within the scope of this project.

Events

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Meetup page for Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon at Center for Jewish History, May 4th, 2014.

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To join, simply add your name to the list using # {{user|Your name here}}. Please list your name in alphabetical order. No need to be Jewish or a woman to join!

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Pages relevant to this wikiproject can be assessed using a standard scale, described in detail on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Jewish Women/Assessment page.

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Templates

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To add a page to this project, place this text: {{WikiProject Jewish Women|class=|importance=}} on the article's talk page. This template will appear:

 Jewish Women Unassessed
 This article is within the scope of WikiProject Jewish Women, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Jewish Women on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Jewish WomenWikipedia:WikiProject Jewish WomenTemplate:WikiProject Jewish WomenJewish Women articles
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Categories

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The following Categories are potentially of interest to this project, although not all of their articles may be within the project's scope.

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Jewish women (5 C)
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Jewish history (25 C, 21 P)
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Jewish feminists (6 C, 358 P)
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Women in history (23 C, 13 P)
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Women by occupation (96 C, 10 P)



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See also:



  1. ^ biographical note on JWA
  2. ^ Swartz, K. L. (2013). Innovation within tradition: halachic egalitarianism and the role of independent minyanim (Doctoral dissertation, Smith College).
  3. ^ Berkovits, R. (2013). Torat Hayyim: The Status of Women in the Thought of Eliezer Berkovits. Shofar, 31(4), 4-15.
  4. ^ Zinaida Poliakova book
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