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The creator of the popular ritual of placing an orange on the Seder plate describes exactly how this innovation arose, its intended significance, and the problematic erasure of its origins.
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Susannah Heschel
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Hanover, United States of America
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2001
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The position of the Jewish woman in Germany today cannot be ascertained from understanding the present alone. A brief look at the recent and distant past—perhaps even the long-distant past—is…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1935
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Edie:You got it. I can’t be a woman and I can’t be a Jew. And I can’t be either, because I can’t be both. So, you know what I’m gonna be? I am gonna be nothing.
Else:Oh, I see, you call all of that…
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A Traveling Jewish Theater
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New York, United States of America
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1985
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Blessing Before the Meal
Let us bless the source of life
that brings forth bread from the earth.
N’vareykh et eyn haḥayim
hamotzi’ah léḥem min ha’áretz.
Sh’ma: Communal Declaration of Faith
Hear…
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Marcia Falk
Places:
Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1996
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The words of a pure woman “more precious than rubies”
whose wish is to attend to studies,
and her name is the gentle Dinah:
She seeks counsel from the wise
for she fears lest her honor may everywhere…
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Samuel Archevolti
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
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1553
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October 19, 1851
[E]ven here, in this far-famed land of freedom and of knowledge, under a republic that has inscribed on its banner the great truth that all men are created free and equal and are…
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Ernestine Potovsky Rose
Places:
Boston, United States of America
Date:
1851
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Louise Fishman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1984
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Deborah Kass
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New York, United States of America
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1992
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Jewish Women Watching
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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In the beginning, the Lord God formed Adam and Lilith from the dust of the ground and breathed into their nostrils the breath of life. Created from the same source, both having been formed from the…
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Judith Plaskow
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Boston, United States of America
Date:
1979