- A
mechitza (Hebrew: מחיצה,
partition or division, pl.: מחיצות, mechitzot) in
Judaism is a partition,
particularly one that is used to
separate men and...
-
Glencairn Avenue, in 1966.
Around 2005, the
mechitza in the building's
sanctuary was raised; the wood-and-gl****
mechitza now
rises 48
inches (120 cm)
above the...
- wall or
curtain called a
mechitza. Men are not
permitted to pray in the
presence of women, to
prevent distraction. The
mechitza shown in the
picture on...
- 2017.
Retrieved March 19, 2011. Dzmura,
Noach (2010).
Balancing on the
Mechitza:
Transgender in
Jewish Community.
North Atlantic Books. p. 15. ISBN 9781556438134...
- sit together,
instead of
segregating the ****es on
opposite sides of a
mechitza.
After much
heated debate, the
congregation also
resolved to
observe Rosh...
- men and
women do not sit together. The
synagogue features a
partition (
mechitza)
dividing the men's and women's
seating areas, or a
separate women's section...
- A
mechitza (halachik wall)
together with an eruv
chatzerot (Hebrew: עירוב חצרות),
commonly known in
English as a
community eruv, is a
symbolic boundary...
- "Transing God/dess:
Notes from the Borderlands," in
Balancing on the
Mechitza:
Transgender in
Jewish Community, ed.
Noach Dzmura (Berkeley, CA: North...
-
prayer services, and
Orthodox synagogues generally include a divider, a
mechitza, to
create separate men's and women's sections. The idea
comes from the...
- (sometimes with the
Torah scrolls), or look on from the
other side of a
mechitza (partition), in
accordance with the
value of
tzniut (modesty). In Conservative...
