Penina V. Adelman, a social worker in the Boston area, is a scholar in residence at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Her books, articles, and speeches address women and spirituality, women in the Bible, and women’s rituals in Judaism. Adelman helped to establish Rosh Hodesh (New Moon) ceremonies for women.
In a faraway land over the seas
Lived a clever and wise king, if you please.
His name was not easy to say unrehearsed
King Leonard-Ferdinand-McCourt the first.
We’ll take on the public’s prudent…
I understood very early that life is a serious business. I do not remember committing any of those childish pranks that everyone keeps in his distant memory. From the age of four I was sent to the mel…
What is the place of the idolatry that is reflected in the Bible?
This idolatry is not a representation perverted for the sake of polemic; nor is it an artificial…