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Changing Synagogue Roles
Jewish women’s roles and obligations within their synagogues continue to evolve. They can work behind the scenes, as they long have — or they can fill any role in the synagogue that men do.
top photo: B’nai Israel Congregation women’s auxiliary preparing a Sabbath dinner, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, about 1950. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
inset photo: Rabbi Stacy Offner and Ellen Dinerstein at a confirmation class service, 1993. Courtesy of Shir Tikvah Congregation, Minneapolis, MN.
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