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Tamar Friedman

January 31, 1999 05:00AM

<HTML>Dear Shalom & list,

In the ongoing discussion about teaching Gemara I have not noticed any reference to another important aspect of the instruction of this subject in the day schools. I am very interested to find out how schools treat Gemara teaching for their female student population starting from the elementary
level. In our school we introduce Mishna in the 5th grade and Gemara in the 6th grade levels both to the boys and to the girls in a co-ed setting. In the 7th & 8th grades, where the boys & girls are separated for Limudei Kodesh, the girls are still taught Gemara but with a slight difference from the boys. Firstly, the Masechet chosen for them is not necessarily the same as the boys'. Secondly, the boys Gemara Shiur is extended to about an hour daily, while the girls' is kept at a one daily period of 42 minutes. I am currently in Israel visiting various Mamlachti Dati schools and am surprised to see that Gemara is mostly never introduced to girls on the elementary level. Even in the co-ed schools, I notice, the girls are taken out of the class for some enrichment program during Gemara, such as computers, gym, Melechet Yad, etc. I wonder what happens in other day schools both in the US, Israel or elsewhere.

Tamar Friedman
Hillel Torah
Chicago</HTML>

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Subject	Author	Posted
Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Shalom Berger	January 24, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Rabbi Benjamin Kramer	January 22, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Shalom Berger	January 25, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Aaron Ross	January 24, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Aryeh Klapper	January 24, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Lisa Schlaff	January 24, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Shalom Berger	January 27, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Rabbi Jack Bieler	January 25, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Sasson Gabbai	January 25, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Danny Newman	February 01, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Shalom Berger	February 01, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Steve Bailey	January 28, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Rabbi S.Berman	January 25, 1999 05:00AM
Teaching Gemara -- Do curricula really work?	Rabbi Zvi Grumet	January 27, 1999 05:00AM
Teaching Gemara -- Skills vs. analysis	Yitzchak Blau	January 27, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Seth Farber	January 28, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Bentzi Spitz	January 31, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Tamar Friedman	January 31, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Rabbi Chaim Kosofsky	February 01, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Tamar Fried	January 31, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Rabbi Chaim Kosofsky	February 01, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Steven Penn	February 10, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Shalom berger	February 11, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Sasson Gabbai	February 15, 1999 05:00AM
Hilul Shabbat for non-Jews	yitzchak jacobs	February 17, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	Alan J. Wecker	February 19, 1999 05:00AM
Re: Creating a Gemara curriculum in American Day Schools	sid slivko	March 13, 2008 02:23PM