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AQA A-Level Religious Studies 7062
Arguments for the Existence of God
Evil and Suffering
Religious Language
Self and Life After Death
Religious Experience
Ethical Theories
Issues of Human Life and Death
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
Bentham and Kant
Issues of Animal Life and Death
Buddhism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityBuddhism
Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion, Gender and SexualityBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and ScienceBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and SecularisationBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and Religious PluralismBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with PhilosophyBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with EthicsBuddhism
Buddhism: God and Ultimate RealityBuddhism
Buddhism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeBuddhism
Buddhism: Expression of Religious IdentityBuddhism
Christianity: God and Ultimate RealityChristianity
Christianity: Self, Death and the AfterlifeChristianity
Christianity: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesChristianity
Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityChristianity
Christianity: Religion and ScienceChristianity
Christianity: Religion and SecularisationChristianity
Christianity: Religion and Religious PluralismChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with PhilosophyChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with EthicsChristianity
Topic overviewKant, Bentham, Virtue Ethics and Christian EthicsAgape, Consequences and Christian CharacterSanctity of Life, Just War and AnimalsEuthanasia, Capital Punishment and Cloning in ChristianityTheft and Truth-TellingMarriage, Homosexuality and Transgender IssuesGenetic Engineering and WealthTolerance and Freedom of Religious ExpressionFree Will, Moral Responsibility and ConscienceCriticisms of Christian EthicsThe Credibility of Christian Moral AuthorityWhat Christianity Has Given Ethical Studies
Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityChristianity
Christianity: Expression of Religious IdentityChristianity
Hinduism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityHinduism
Hinduism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesHinduism
Hinduism: Religion, Gender and SexualityHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and ScienceHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and SecularisationHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and Religious PluralismHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with PhilosophyHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with EthicsHinduism
Hinduism: God and Ultimate RealityHinduism
Hinduism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeHinduism
Hinduism: Expression of Religious IdentityHinduism
Islam: God and Ultimate RealityIslam
Islam: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesIslam
Islam: Religion, Gender and SexualityIslam
Islam: Religion and ScienceIslam
Islam: Religion and SecularisationIslam
Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismIslam
Islam: Dialogue with PhilosophyIslam
Islam: Dialogue with EthicsIslam
Islam: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityIslam
Islam: Self, Death and the AfterlifeIslam
Islam: Expression of Religious IdentityIslam
Judaism: God and Ultimate RealityJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with PhilosophyJudaism
Judaism: Religion and ScienceJudaism
Judaism: Religion and SecularisationJudaism
Judaism: Religion and Religious PluralismJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with EthicsJudaism
Topic overviewKant, Bentham and Jewish EthicsConsequences, Character and Jewish EthicsThe Mitzvot and Tikkun OlamSanctity of Life, Animals, Theft and LyingCapital Punishment, Euthanasia and Cloning in JudaismMarriage, Sexuality and Genetic EngineeringWealth, Tolerance and Religious Freedom in JudaismBechirah Chofshit: Free Will and ConscienceOther Ethical Traditions and Jewish EthicsWhat Ethical Criticism Means for Torah and Halakha
Judaism: Religion, Gender and SexualityJudaism
Judaism: Expression of Religious IdentityJudaism
Judaism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityJudaism
Judaism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeJudaism
Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesJudaism
Judaism: Religion, Gender and Sexuality
- 6 subtopics
- 19 things to know
- Component 2
- Judaism, one faith of five studied in Component 2
What Judaism: Religion, Gender and Sexuality covers
Judaism: changing thought on gender roles, marriage and sexuality. Part of Component 2, sat only by students who take Judaism as their chosen religion.
Where it is assessed
Component 2
Judaism, one faith of five — the study of religion.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 6 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- The Ordination of Women as RabbisRecall questions on Regina Jonas and why her ordination went unrecognised, and on the first women ordained by seminaries and by the Reconstructionist movement.Open →
- Open Orthodoxy and the Title RabbaRecall questions on the institutions ordaining women in Open Orthodoxy, the titles used, Sara Hurwitz and the mainstream Orthodox response.Open →
- JOFA and the AgunahRecall questions on what the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance seeks, how it differs from Reform Judaism, what an agunah is and the remedy JOFA advocates.Open →
- Celibacy, Marriage and Same-Sex RelationshipsRecall questions on why celibacy is viewed negatively, the sacred purpose of marriage, the Orthodox position and the Reform and Liberal responses.Open →
- Rachel Adler and Brit AhuvimRecall questions on Adler's significance, her critique of traditional marriage and why the covenant of lovers is held to create equality.Open →
- Jewish Thinking on Gender RolesHow changing roles in secular society shaped Jewish thought on gender, and how Orthodox and Progressive Jews read the commandments of the Torah and halakhah on men's and women's roles.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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How do Orthodox, Reform and Conservative Judaism regard Halakah on gender?
Key term
How have changing roles of men and women in secular society influenced Jewish thinking about gender?
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Who was the first woman ordained as a rabbi in the modern era, and when did this occur?
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In what year did the Reconstructionist movement ordain its first female rabbi, and who was she?
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Besides serarah, what other halakhic concern does Orthodox Judaism raise against women becoming rabbis?
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Which institutions are associated with Open Orthodoxy's ordination of women?
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Who is Sara Hurwitz, and what is significant about her title?
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In which Jewish movements do women rabbis now serve in significant numbers?
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How does JOFA seek to expand women's ritual roles and learning within Orthodox Judaism?
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What is the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) and what does it seek to achieve?
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Why does JOFA argue that the agunot problem does not require abandoning Orthodox practice?
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How is marriage understood in Judaism in terms of its sacred purpose?
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Which Torah verse do Orthodox Jews cite as prohibiting male homosexual acts, and how do they interpret it?
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What non-binary gender categories does the Talmud recognise, and how are these used in contemporary debates?
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Who is Rachel Adler and what is her significance in Jewish thought?
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What alternative to traditional Jewish marriage did Rachel Adler propose?
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How does Rachel Adler's approach enable the inclusion of same-sex couples in Jewish covenantal relationships?
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What became of Regina Jonas, and who were the first women ordained by seminaries?
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Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Mechitza vs Minyan
Mechitza: the partition separating men and women during prayer. Minyan: the quorum required for communal prayer.
Agunah vs Get
Agunah: a woman unable to remarry because her husband withholds a divorce. Get: the bill of divorce he must grant for her to be free.
Niddah vs Mikveh
Niddah: the laws governing separation during and after menstruation. Mikveh: the ritual bath used for purification.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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Who was the first woman ordained as a rabbi in the modern era, and when did this occur?
Model answer
Regina Jonas, ordained privately in Germany in 1935.
- 2
What happened to Regina Jonas, and why was her ordination not widely recognised?
Model answer
She was murdered in the Holocaust, and her private ordination was not widely recognised at the time.
- 3
Who was the first woman ordained as a rabbi by a rabbinical seminary, and which institution ordained her?
Model answer
Sally Priesand, ordained by Hebrew Union College (Reform) in 1972.
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In what year did the Reconstructionist movement ordain its first female rabbi, and who was she?
Model answer
1974; Sandy Eisenberg Sasso.
- 5
Who was the first female rabbi ordained in the Conservative movement?
Model answer
Amy Eilberg, ordained in 1985.
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What decision did the Jewish Theological Seminary make in 1983 regarding women?
Model answer
It voted to admit women to the rabbinical programme, leading to the first Conservative female ordination in 1985.
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Judaism: Religion, Gender and Sexuality revision questions
- What does Judaism: Religion, Gender and Sexuality cover in AQA A-Level Religious Studies?
- 6 subtopics: the ordination of women as rabbis, open orthodoxy and the title rabba, jofa and the agunah, celibacy, marriage and same-sex relationships, rachel adler and brit ahuvim and jewish thinking on gender roles. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Judaism: Religion, Gender and Sexuality organised?
- By the AQA 7062 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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