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Finestone said that she, along with For Ourselves' student co-coordinators, created the group in order to explore women's roles in Judaism...
...felt that there are a lot of times when Judaism and contemporary feminism come into conflict," Finestone said, "but I also felt that the two have a lot to give to each other...
...very interested in having a forum to reconcile some of the differences between Judaism and feminism," Prager said, adding that in many areas of social life the two sets of beliefs do not coincide...
Prager cited divorce as a specific example of an area where the paths of Judaism and feminism diverge, and said that "one of the big problems is that women cannot initiate divorce under Jewish law. Only the man can do this...
According to Meredith E. Goldberg '92, who also helped to set up the group, the student group plans to examine what she called the "broad spectrum" of women's roles in Judaism...