barbie lays tefillin: discussing women and jewish ritual
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Barbie Lays Tefillin
Women and Jewish Ritual
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Who is this person?
What did this person do?
Why did they do it?
Who am I?
What do I do / What do I want to do?
Why do I do it?
You Cannot Be What You Cannot See
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A note about gender and our
community
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Meet Tefillin Barbie
Created in 2006
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Meet Jen Taylor Friedman, Soferet
(scribe) and creator of Tefillin Barbie
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Perspectives on Tefillin Barbie
• Read your article in a small group.
• Jewschool
• Strollerderby
• Hatam Soferet
• Discuss:
• What were the perspectives of the
author(s)?
• Do you agree or disagree with the
author(s)? Why?
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Barbara Myerhoff and Domestic
Religion
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Religion and gender
• Describe the two kinds of learning discussed in this
excerpt.
• Does this description still seem true today?
• What gender differences do you see in your
community around religion and spirituality?
• How does Tefillin Barbie connect these two different
ways of learning/engaging with Judaism?
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Tefillin Barbie as a lens for our lives
How do you understand your
community’s traditions or
your own experience
differently having read about
Tefillin Barbie and Domestic
Religion?
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Barbie Lays Tefillin
Women and Jewish Ritual