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Title:

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

Publisher:

Wayne State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xii, 331 p. : ill. 23 cm.

Subject:

Jewish women--United States--Religious life.
Women in Judaism--United States.
Feminism--Judaism.--Judaism.
Judaism--United States.

Other Authors:

Prell, Riv-Ellen, 1947-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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

ISBN:

0814332803 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814332801 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007006907

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)