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It is not unusual for committed Jewish women to be uneasy about their position as Jews. It was to cry down our doubts that rabbis developed their pre-packaged orations on the nobility of motherhood…
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Rachel Adler
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1971
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This is the story of a queen who gave her daughter in marriage to a young king and then gave her the following instructions, inasmuch as she was about to be married. Since she was sending the daughter…
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Isaac ben Eliyakim of Posen
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1620
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Barbara Kruger
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1989
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The situation of the Jewish woman might well be compared to the situation of the Jew in non-Jewish culture. The Gentile projection of the Jew as Other—the stranger, the demon, the human not-quite…
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Judith Plaskow
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New York, United States of America
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1983
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They present me with the bill
For not having been satisfied,
And they always surprise me with the wealth of their lexicon.
They ask me for a receipt for my fate,
And they make me think,
That…
Contributor:
Nurit Zarchi
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2001
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“Ma’aseh Bruria,” a group creation compiled from Talmudic and Midrashic sources.
Conceived, originated and researched by: Gabriella…
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Gabriella Lev, Aliza Elion-Israeli
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1982
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convicted, with her husband,
of “conspiracy to commit
espionage”; killed in the
electric chair June 19, 1953
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Adrienne Rich
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1981
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The process that ultimately enabled women to serve as pleaders in the rabbinical courts began thanks to the initiative of one woman, Ruth Margarit Neiger of Raananah…
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Yoram Kirsch
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2002
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I am Rabbi Balfour Brickner. I serve as the national director of the Commission on Interfaith Activities, a joint commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Jewish Chautauqua Society…
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Balfour Brickner
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Washington, United States of America
Date:
1974
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Poor Blu Greenberg, has she let herself in for it. In seeking to effect a synthesis between Orthodoxy and feminism in On Women and Judaism, she has managed to anger partisans on both sides of the…
Contributor:
David Singer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1983