Also, the concept of a "kehillah" - style education for all Jewish children is passé and not vogue in the new humanitarian universal model. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The kehillah itself granted the various leaders this authority which included the right of leaders to enforce legislation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Other fields, such as municipal politics, kehillah politics or labor union activities, have been generally ignored. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On the more limited issue of female suffrage in kehillah elections, he restated the principle that only religious Jews should decide religious questions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Zionists, Bundists and Folkists saw the kehillah as the building block of a new national Jewish identity, but only if the kehillah could be remade into a secular, democratic instrument, where religious needs would at best be provided as one of many services to the Jewish public, or, in the view of more strident secularist nationalists, eliminated from the activities of the kehillah entirely. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If women were barred from direct participation in kehillah politics, this was not the case in general Polish elections, nor was it true within the various Jewish youth movements and political parties. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The tough rhetoric of the pre-war period had, if anything, deepened, yet one hears nothing of a demand for equal participation of women in the elections for the kehillah. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In other areas of kehillah activity, Aguda had no objection to equality for women. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This answer avoided the issue of orthodox women, but the standard opinion of rabbinical scholars of the time forbade women from voting for or being elected to kehillah office. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Changes did take place in the kehillah regime, at first under the German occupation of Poland during World War I, and then under the newly established Polish regime, moving that body towards almost universal suffrage, but still limited to males. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The nature of the kehillah was one of the most hotly contested topics on the political agenda of Polish Jewry in the interwar period. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Thus the party consistently opposed granting women the right to vote in kehillah elections (in fact, during the entire interwar period women never gained this right). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Orthodox parties that developed at the same time did their utmost to preserve the essentially religious nature of the kehillah. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One could say that the fight over the nature of the kehillah was one of the key formative issues of Jewish politics in Eastern Europe, going back to the beginning of the century. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"The rav's aynekel's bris was on Shabbos Chol Hamoed, so they invited the entire kehillah to a fleishige seudah in the shul sukkah." ❋ Unknown (2010)
In Brooklyn, Rav Binyamin Eisenberger, the respected Rav of one of the largest shuls in Boro Park, said that, in his kehillah alone, 10 families were left without any means of support when their fathers 'jobs were cut. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Later, when he became the Rav of the kehillah and got involved in rabbinical issues such as kashrus and the like, he never abandoned his beloved yeshivah and its talmidim, but merely took on the additional role and mantle of a Rav, while remaining a full-fl edged Rosh Yeshivah. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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