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From: "Moshe Y. Gluck" _mgluck at gmail.com_ (mailto:mgluck at gmail.com) 

>>Not everyone  agrees that the Halachah has changed - one Rav I know is of 
the
opinion that  while meritorious, there is no Chiyuv for women to hear
Parashas Zachor, and  he thus refuses to allow the Sefer Torah to be taken
out on Shabbos afternoon  for a second, women's, reading.<<




>>>>>
 
My husband thinks that women have a mitzva of zachor ("zachor es asher  asa 
lecha Amalek") but don't have to hear the parsha to be yotzei -- they are  
yotzei by hearing the Megillah.  When my kids were little I sometimes I  relied on 
that loophole.  Also I don't remember anyone making a fuss about  girls 
having to be in shul for Parshas Zachor when I was a girl -- maybe that's  a 
chassidish vs litvish thing? In general, Litvaks seem to be expect more of  women 
but/and are also more text (vs mimetic) oriented.  Anyway, my  memories, or lack 
of memories, seem to support what RZS said about this  only having become 
widespread in the last 30 years or so.   



--Toby  Katz
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