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July 15, 2020

Prayer, for All Its Public Features, Is an Affair between Man and God

Some reflections on solitary prayer and mixed-sex seating.

In the decades after World War II, one of the most salient differences between Orthodox and Conservative synagogues was that the latter had mixed-sex seating, and the great controversy within Orthodoxy was whether it was necessary to change this practice to keep up with the times. Shalom Carmy considers those debates in light of the changes to public prayer inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic:

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July 15, 2020

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