Challenge and Conformity Book Launch (RECORDING)

Book Launch
Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women

with Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz,  Julie Siddiqi and Dr Lindsay Simmonds 

Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly seeking new ways to express themselves religiously, and important changes have occurred in consequence in their self-definition and the part they play in the religious life of their communities. Our panel will discuss Dr Taylor-Guthartz's recently published book, which draws on surveys and interviews with Jewish women across different Orthodox groups in London. 

Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz  received her doctorate from University College London. She has been an affiliated or associated lecturer at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Middlesex, and at Vassar College, New York; has taught at the London School of Jewish Studies; and has presented at international conferences in the Netherlands, Poland, and South Africa. She is currently studying for Orthodox rabbinic ordination at Yeshivat Maharat, New York.

Julie Siddiqi is a gender equality campaigner, community organiser and consultant. She works with faith communities all over the UK and is co-founder of Nisa-Nashim the Jewish and Muslim Women’s Network

Dr Lindsay Simmonds lectures on Gender and Judaism and is a Research Fellow at the LSJS; she is co-chair of her local Jewish-Muslim Women’s Network Nisa-Nashim and is Jewish Scholar-in-Residence for the Council of Christians and Jews.

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