According to a new article at JTA, my 2nd-cousin-by-marriage Beverly Gribetz, formerly of Ramaz and the Evelina de Rothschild school, has started a new girls' school called Tehilla, run on Modern Orthodox principles. Girls will learn Talmud, but are coming from a wide range of lower-level schools, both more and less traditional than Tehilla.
It's less aggressively Feminist than the other new Modern Orthodox girls' school being started by the Shalom Hartman institute. Hartman's administrator, R' Donniel Hartman, would enthusiastically accept a girl who wears a tallis, and the Hartman Institute will be housing (temporarily) the egalitarian-leining minyan Shira Chadashah. Gribetz has no current plans for her girls to lein, but if the students want it, she's open to it.
The opening of the two new schools, along with Gribetz' departure therefrom, has brought the imminent closure of the Evelina school.
It's less aggressively Feminist than the other new Modern Orthodox girls' school being started by the Shalom Hartman institute. Hartman's administrator, R' Donniel Hartman, would enthusiastically accept a girl who wears a tallis, and the Hartman Institute will be housing (temporarily) the egalitarian-leining minyan Shira Chadashah. Gribetz has no current plans for her girls to lein, but if the students want it, she's open to it.
The opening of the two new schools, along with Gribetz' departure therefrom, has brought the imminent closure of the Evelina school.
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R' Donniel Hartman, would enthusiastically accept a girl who wears a tallis
Does that mean that other schools would expel a girl for wearing a tallis?
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