[Avodah] Kosher Turkey and Women Rabbis and Mesorah

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 11/27/2015 09:36 AM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> In Chazal's day, woment weren't allowed in shul, except perhaps long
> enough to say qaddish or bench gomel. Or if needed for leining.
> Mechitzah is a feminist innovation from the geonic era.

What is your source that women weren't *allowed* in shul?  AFAIK there
was no prohibition, it just wasn't customary for them to go, just as
even today in many/most communities few women come to shul on Friday
night, and even fewer for Mincha on Shabbos.

Also what is your source that the mechitza is geonic?  AFAIK the
phenomenon of substantial numbers of women regularly attending the
men's shul (rather than a separate women's shul), and thus the need
for a mechitzah, dates to the late middle ages.


On 11/27/2015 12:30 PM, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> I have been told about two gedolim who did not eat turkey - Rav P. M.
> Teitz of Elizabeth, NJ and Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky. I am sure there are
> ohers.

Male-line descendants of the Shalah don't eat turkey.   Also some
female-line descendants, because their mothers never learned how to
cook it, so they grew up not eating it, and therefore it isn't in
their usual diet as adults.

-- 
Zev Sero
zev at sero.name