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mechitza

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me·chi·tza  (m-ts, --tsä)
n. pl. me·chi·tzas or me·chi·tzot (-tsôt) Judaism
A partition erected in the seating section of an Orthodox synagogue to prevent the mixing of men and women.
[Mishnaic Hebrew miâ, partition, from Hebrew a, to divide; see in Semitic roots.]
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Though the word hijab derives from the Arabic word for "barrier" or "veil" (Bouselmati 2002; Debray 2004; Vianes 2004) and its primary reference is to the curtain that separates men and women in prayer; like the mechitza in an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, a hijab is a type of kerchief and not a veil, though revealingly the debate in France focused on the le voule (veil) when referring explicitly to the hijab (Zouari 2002; 2004).
Rights and the hijab: Rationality and discourse in the public sphere by Adelman, Howard / Human Rights & Human Welfare
—Lizzy Ratner The Other Side of the Mechitza ….
The New Yorkerator by Observer Staff / The New York Observer
He regards the Orthodox Jewish women of his childhood synagogue, segregated behind the mechitza, as teachers of authentic emotion, and the mechitza itself as a barrier stultifying to both women and men: I studied love in my childhood in my childhood synagogue in the women's section with the help of the women behind the partition that locked up my mother with all the other women and girls.
Amichai's Counter-Theology: Opening Open Closed Open by BLOCH, CHANA; KRONFELD, GHANA / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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