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Anonymous wrote:The reason I don't like to associate with Orthodox Jews (and some other ultra religious people), it is just a matter of time before they hurt my feelings with, "I can't eat that", or "I can't drive today". Just annoying.

Why would that hurt your feelings?

If you prepared the food for them. It is more than I need to think about. My friend's diabetic child is enough for me to worry about. I don't want to hear, "we can't eat that watermelon because you cut it!". Just leave.

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Anonymous wrote:The reason I don't like to associate with Orthodox Jews (and some other ultra religious people), it is just a matter of time before they hurt my feelings with, "I can't eat that", or "I can't drive today". Just annoying.

Why would that hurt your feelings?

Anonymous wrote:The reason I don't like to associate with Orthodox Jews (and some other ultra religious people), it is just a matter of time before they hurt my feelings with, "I can't eat that", or "I can't drive today". Just annoying.

Anonymous wrote:I know it is impossible to generalize about things like this, but what have you observed about the relationships between men and women in private life. In some Christian traditions, the husband is viewed as the head of the household and the wife is supposed to go along with his decisions, even if she would have made a different choice or had different views. Does Jewish law have a corollary to this or would you say that most family decisions are made by the husband and wife together?

Anonymous wrote:I have a question about a situation from my past. One of my law school colleagues was a very observant Orthodox man. (Based not just on his appearance, but his own characterization.) Although we were friendly and worked together several times, I always was careful to avoid physical contact with him. (I am a woman.) I have always been torn on whether this was rude of me, for treating him differently based on my assumption that he would rather avoid contact with non-family women. I mean, if we had been in a business meeting where everyone was shaking hands, I would obviously have offered, but here it seemed easier to avoid the issue.

Anonymous wrote:OP, do you have friends for whom respecting sexual purity laws has complicated conception? It seems like women with a long period plus short overall cycle could end up with few or no fertile days during the phase when it's permissible to have sex. In your community, do you think most women would just bend the purity rules (since having kids is its own blessing) or would they rather use medical assistance to manipulate the timing?

Anonymous wrote:Forgive me if this has been asked and answered. In Islam, women get to keep their own money and their own earnings. They are not required to use this money to support the family (although they often do of course). If Orthodox women are working, are there any rules that govern the use of their own income, savings, or other assets?

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Anonymous wrote:How would you feel if your daughter wanted to be a rabbi?

If she wanted to dedicate her life to the study of Torah, Id have no problem with it. There is an increasing number of Orthodox women who choose this career path, most end up teaching (as do most Rabbis). If she wanted to be a conservative or reform Rabbi, I'd wonder what about Orthodox theology she was rejecting, but I'd support her no matter what.

It would be pretty clear, wouldn't it? Studying the Torah and becoming a Rabbi are two different, though related, things. Orthodoxy doesn't allow women to become rabbis based upon theological (as well as cultural) grounds.

Yes and no. If she wanted to lead a congregation, then there are ways within the Orthodox world for a woman to have that kind of stature/influence. If she wanted to be able to answer religious questions, there are some, though limited, opportunities to do that as well. It depends what you want when you want to be a "Rabbi." The large majority of men with rabbinical ordination are no congregational rabbis.

Can a woman become ordained as a rabbi within Orthodox Judaism? I have family who are Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, and this is the hardest point for the women to accept. You can become a nun, you can "serve" the Church, you may even considered spiritually "purer" than men, but you cannot assume official leadership in the church. And official recognition by any community of one's equal status is an important moral issue, IMO (e.g., women's right to vote/hold public office, Black Americans and civil rights, gay marriage, etc.), not just a civil one.