Rosh Pina (Washington, D.C.)

Rosh Pina (Hebrew: ראש פינה) is a lay-led Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue that meets in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States.

The independent congregation meets for Shabbat morning services twice a month in the National Museum of American Jewish Military History (NMAJMH).

[1] It was founded in 2007 as a partnership minyan in order to provide a religious environment that was more inclusive of women's participation than traditional Orthodox synagogues.

The practices of Rosh Pina and communities like it are based on an opinion by Modern Orthodox Rabbi Mendel Shapiro,[4] who holds B.A.

Sperber also delves into specific cases when Jewish law permitted and sometimes even required women to be called to and read from the Torah on Shabbat in services with men present.