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FTFYriday night: synagogue (for the men) then big ceremonious dinner (that the women have been cooking)

• davidmanheim 6y ago
  There's no cooking allowed on the Sabbath, and women can and frequently do go to synagogue with the men. (But if they stayed home, they were probably setting the table while the men were in the synagogue.)
• compsciphd 6y ago
  depends what community you are in. Can point to plenty of orthodox synagouges (especially those with large single populations) that get large numbers of both men and women to all services. and being a single guy, I've hosted many a meal where I did the cooking, table setting and cleaning. (though in practice at these meals, there is also a pot luck nature to them and many times there's a whole system where your friends come over help you set the table and then help clean up and throw everything away all the trash after the meal, collecting silverware, wrapping up the plastic table cloth cover with all the crumbs/spills on it).