Tzipporah Machlah Klapper

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Jun 16, 2019, 5:54 PM

Our Community Needs to Hear Orthodox Women Leaders

In February last year, something historic happened. At the Tzohar conference, a wide variety of American and Israeli Orthodox rabbis - including roshei yeshiva, graduates, and students from both Yeshiva University and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah - met to discuss...

Feb 20, 2019, 12:31 AM

A Review of the Koren Ta’anit-Megilla by an ArtScroll User

The נאה edition lives up to its name. The Koren Gemara was always going to have a hard time winning me over. Their main competitor, ArtScroll, has been a major part of my life and learning. After I finished mishnayos...

Jan 27, 2019, 8:45 PM

Why Women’s Learning and Leadership Are Separate Issues

Advocates for women’s learning frequently make the following argument: There are Jewish leadership tasks for which it is more appropriate to have women lead. These tasks are generally done by men with advanced Torah educations. Therefore, in order to...

Jan 21, 2019, 3:36 AM

How to fix Orthodox women’s learning

We need to create better programs for our post-high school, college, and post-college students, but first we need to create the students who can people them. It is not that these programs could not be created with the students we...

Nov 20, 2018, 1:13 AM

The Simplest Solution: A Reply to Rabbi Dr. Judah Goldberg

Over the summer, The Lehrhaus published four pieces about women’s learning. The first, by Rabbi Dr. Judah Goldberg, laid out a “programmatic agenda for advanced Torah study” which he believed would “maximize their learning opportunities.” The second, by...

Jun 1, 2018, 11:20 PM

The Learning Women Modern Orthodoxy Fails

My previous post listed 39 problems in Modern Orthodox women’s learning. In this post, I hope to illustrate how many of those problems play out in women’s lives through four fictional profiles of women who learn. Each of them...

Mar 21, 2018, 10:00 PM

39 problems in Modern Orthodox women’s Torah learning

Illustrative: Books of the Talmud. (iStock)

The world is not ready for your desire to excel: 39 problems in Modern Orthodox Torah learning for women

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About Me

Tzipporah Machlah Klapper is an experienced learner and teacher of Torah. Originally from Boston, MA, she currently lives in New Jersey with her husband. This coming year she will be studying for an MA in Jewish Studies at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.