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A hundred generations after Tamar, in the year of her own jubilee, a woman still hungers for Torah. She will be cold on the bimah alone. Gone are the arms…

…the celebration. Among the close to 200,000 works in Hebrew and related languages are illuminated wedding contracts, a prayerbook for the “Daughters of Israel,” Tamar Messer’s Shir ha-Shirim, several Esther…

…women, and interweaves the original text with later rabbinic interpretations. Through the stories of Dinah, Tamar, Batsheva, Ruth and Lot’s daughters she contends with the motives of both the men…

…force. In one of the novel’s more memorable scenes, she plays the part of Tamar, who is raped by her half-brother Amnon, a performance which Elisheva compares to the “famous…

…myself in this brutal light:/halved, hugging yellow margins,/whoring after man and gods” (from “Unopened Letters”). In “Amnon,” Zisquit modernizes the biblical rape of Tamar, setting the tone with a quote…

…of articulate communication and the wounded, raging scream that haunts us long after we turn the last page. Tamar Weinstock, a former Lilith intern, is a student at Cornell University….

…When Tamar Prager became pregnant with her first child and needed to decide what kind of care she wanted to receive for her pregnancy, she knew she wanted, as much…

…on Jewish theology, the Bible, and halacha [Jewish law]. Rochelle Millen examines the theologies of three major Jewish feminist thinkers (theorists): Rachel Adler, Judith Plaskow and Tamar Ross. Despite theological…

Tamar Rogoff, a 54-year-old experimental- theatre artist and choreographer, is famous for turning impossible things into “art.” She did a show in which the actors were six-month-old babies, another in…

…Yael Feldman, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Laura Geller, Judith Hauptman, Susannah Heschel, Paula Hyman, Judith Plaskow and Alice Shalvi. Information: Tamar Rudavsky/Judith Stauber, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Ohio State University;…