Women remaking American Judaism / edited by Riv-Ellen Prell ; with a foreword by David Weinberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prell, Riv-Ellen, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women--Religious life--United States.

Jewish women.

Jewish women--Religious life.

Women in Judaism.

United States.

Women in Judaism--United States.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Feminism.

Judaism--United States.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2007]

Contents:

Her mouth is full of wisdom : reflections on Jewish feminist theology / Rochelle L. Millen

Meanings of shekhinah in the "Jewish renewal" movement / Chava Weissler

A tent of one's own : feminist biblical scholarship, a popular novel, and the fate of the biblical text / Adriane B. Leveen

Women in Reform Judaism : between rhetoric and reality / Karla Goldman

Mitzvah, gender, and Reconstructionist Judaism / Deborah Dash Moore and Andrew Bush

The tensions that merit our attention : women in Conservative Judaism / Shuly Rubin Schwartz

Women in Orthodoxy : conventional and contentious / Norma Baumel Joseph

Bridges to "a Judaism transformed by women's wisdom" : the first generation of women rabbis / Pamela S. Nadell

Phasing in : Rosh Hodesh ceremonies in American Jewish life / Jody Myers

Miriam's object lesson : ritualizing the presence of Miriam / Vanessa L. Ochs

Finding her right place in the synagogue : the rite of adult bat mitzvah / Lisa D. Grant.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814332801

0814332803

OCLC:

85162121