jothar- please elucidate your comments. What are/were the problems with women’s prayer groups?
why did R’Joshe ber zz’l have a ‘negative view’ about women dancing with the torah? it cannot be that this is the halocho- I quoted the shulchan aruch (282) that EXPRESSLY allows women (afilu niddos) to touch the torah and to read from it.
If this is because it ‘has never been done before’, well, there are many things that had never been done before and then became the norm ( one little known example is the mizmor of le’dovid hashem ori-now virtually said everywhere but only became as such a couple of hundred years ago…)
additionally- there is no ‘chiyuv’ hakofos for ANYONE. it is a minhag that has developed in the last few hundred years….
Again- I am not siding with any side here but just to say- “it has never been done before’ is not enough of a reason….half of our halochos and mitzvos had never been done before till it became part of our tradition…