Zing!

Seriously? Conservative women can leyn (on average) just as well as Conservative men. If you were talking about the Orthodox, then I’d give it to you, but since men and women in the egalitarian movements recieve the same education, that statement doesn’t make sense.

the kind of community about which marisa speaks deifnitely already exists. it just so happens that one of my favorite torah readers is a woman, and all the truly superlative leyning i have experienced as of late has been by a ba’alat koreh.
i am not claiming that the claims she makes are not real and should not be taken seriously, but the other side of the coin, the earnestly and successfully egalitarian side exists as well.

mrs. themicah is a much better Torah reader than me.

I was also thinking that it could be that the women are better because sometimes they are the ones who are more committed to the ideal in egalitarian situations.

ah, one of the great things about the reform movement. girls *always* leyned better than the boys did in hebrew school. teach a girl to fish, and she’ll haul em in.