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Mystics,
Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls by Stephanie Wellen Levine, Carol Gilligan £18.95 |
| In this refreshing portrayal
of girls who are strongly independent and deeply spiritual a
contrasting path to that of mainstream adolescent girls. Levine
spent a year living as a "participant observer" in the Lubavitcher
community in
Crown Heights, Brooklyn. What she found instead is that Lubavitch culture
nurtures girls' inner and outer voices. Levine invites readers to share the "pure delight"
of knowing these girls, and challenges us to draw on Hasidism as an unexpected source in
helping us develop into secure, confident adults.
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The Blessing of a Broken Heart
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| Mandell, an
American-born writer raising her family in Israel, sent her
13-year-old son off to school on May 8th, 2001. But Koby skipped
school to go hiking with his friend Yosef. The two boys' bodies were
found the next day—bludgeoned to death in a cave near Koby's home in
Tekoa. Mandell might have used Koby's death to fuel the flames of haterd. But instead she offers a
beautiful memoir, written almost like a prose-poem that recounts her transformation from grief
into love and compassion.
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The Woman Who Defied Kings: by Andre Aelion Brooks
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first modern, comprehensive biography of Doña Gracia Nasi, an
outstanding Jewish international figure during the Renaissance. A
courageous leader, she created an "underground
railroad" that saved hundreds of her fellow jews from the horrors of the
Inquisition. She also spearheaded one of the earliest attempts
to start an independent state for Jews in Israel. Some historians have called her the most
important Jewish woman since Biblical times.
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The Receiving:
£10.95
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| The astonishing stories of seven remarkable but almost
unknown Jewish women form the center piece of this treatise on feminine spirituality. Mystics, sages,
prayer leaders and miracle workers, the women lived in the second to 20th centuries, in countries
from Germany to Kurdistan. Tirzah Firestone, a rabbi and psychotherapist allows each
woman's story to serve as a springboard for exploring an aspect of Kabbalah, which literally means
"the receiving." This book allows us to receive the wisdom of
generations of extraordinary women. |
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The Flying Camel: £14.95
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Many of us have stereotypes of what "Jewish" looks like—and for many of us that image is white and European. This book blows that notion apart. Focusing on the experiences of Jewish women of two rich and varied regions, The Flying Camel reveals the hidden worlds of Jewish women often misunderstood or maligned by both the cultures in which they live and the European-Jewish community. An extraordinary, diverse tapestry of the many ethnic strands of multicultural Judaism. |
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Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women On Mothers And Daughters edited by Faye Moskowitz £14.95
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| An astonishing collection of poems, stories, and essays,
this is a penetrating
look at the mother-daughter bond from the perspective of Jewish women. A
wide range of writers from Grace Paley and Tillie Olsen to Sandra Bernhard and Irena Klepfisz
raise their voices in these haunting and remarkable pages.
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Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home Laura Levitt £16.99 |
| How can women's full participation transform Jewish law,
prayer, sexuality, and marriage? What
does it mean to "engender" Jewish tradition? Pioneering
theologian Rachel Adler gives this
timely and powerful question its first thorough study in a book that
bristles with humor, passion, intelligence, and deep knowledge of traditional biblical and rabbinic
texts.
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Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism by Tamar Ross £21.50
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| Writing as an insider (herself an Orthodox Jew), Ross
confronts the radical feminist
critique of Judaism as a religion deeply entrenched in patriarchy. Ross seeks to develop a theological response that fully
acknowledges the male bias of
Judaism's sanctified texts, yet provides a rationale for transforming
today's world. Her book shows that the feminist
revolution in Orthodox
Judaism reaches beyond its practical effect upon individual lives to teach
us something more
profound about the nature of religious practice in general.
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Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism by Danya Ruttenberg, Susannah Heschel £13.95 |
| Ruttenberg, a San
Francisco-based writer and contributing editor to the Jewish
feminist journal Lilith, has assembled a provocative collection
of impassioned essays by an unorthodox group of young Jewish
feminists.
With a foreword by noted Jewish scholar and feminist
Susannah Heschel, this cutting- edge anthology is a welcome testament to
how Jewish Gen-X women are finding their own distinctive voices.
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Listen to Her Voice by Miki Raver £15.95
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| IIlustrated throughout, Listen to Her Voice retells the lives of 18 women in the Hebrew Bible. It is a provocative book to treasure and share.
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