…to confer this responsibility. Further, they encourage women to study the Jewish texts in far greater detail than tradition has allowed. Several years ago, Israeli scholar Tamar El-Or published a…
…We are not a history museum,” she says. Among the many other artists she has shown in individual and group shows are Hanan Harchol, Tobi Kahn, Laurie Gross, Tamar Hirschl,…
By Jamie Allen Black, CEO, Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York When Tamar Menasseh grew frustrated with the gun violence ripping apart her neighborhood on Chicago’s Southside, she did not…
…the brain like a cervix … Desperately reaching for words to anchor us, we turned back to “The Prayer of the Mothers for Life and Peace,” written by Rabbi Tamar Elad Applebaum and Sheikha…
…story of Tamar [who, in Genesis 38, disguises herself as a prostitute and sleeps with her father-in-law] I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe this!” When Leah was…
…will be yours, and then Karen’s and Tamar’s.” “Mommy, I don’t want a fur coat,” answered my mother. “I don’t like fur coats. Get it for yourself — you want…
…Tamar Ross, professor of philosophy at Bar Ilan University, said her bias is to defend the canon. She finds contrived ceremonies don’t carry the same sacredness as traditional texts. Rabbanit…
…candidates for the Jewish Theological Seminary’s new MA program in Jewish ethics. Judith Plaskow, Rachel Adler, Blu Greenberg, Tamar Ross and Tova Hartman are featured as key thinkers on such…
…in America. • Sandra Collins, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, selects biblical stories about women who act alone in sexually provocative ways (Lot’s daughters, Tamar in Genesis…
…from a river! She herself will immerse only in the Mediterranean. The vast majority of young, religious Ethiopian Israelis accept rabbinic law, though one woman I interviewed, Tamar, had a…
