Originally Posted by dhammer53
Many synagogues have trouble getting a minyan. This can be a problem for someone that needs to say kadish.
Sometimes I'll attend minyan just so that my shul can get 10 people (a minyan).
My shul, with 800 families, and it's hard to get 10 some evenings.
The orthodox insist on 10 men. Many Conservative shuls will also count woman in the minyan.
(This is a
'hot' topic in some circles).
DHammer - on behalf of those of us who need a minyan, to all those of you who DON'T need to be there but show up anyway: thanks!
One correction, though: now, virtually every Conservative synagogue in the US counts women equally toward a minyan. Canada & Latin America are still more split on this. Israeli "masorti" synagogues (the Hebrew word for "traditional", which is the name for what we in N.Am call "conservative" Judaism) tend to be egalitarian; Europe is more divided.