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A Feminist’s Guide to Israel’s Next Government

…Knesset representation (3 women to 2 men) has some phenomenal women – MK Zehava Galon, MK Tamar Zandberg and MK Michal Rosen are all articulate, active warriors for justice whom…

Happening

…Savina Teubal, Carol Meyers, Marcia Falk, Tikvah Frymer-Kensky, Rachel Adler, Rachel Cowan, Debbie Weissman, Jo Milgrom, Blu Greenberg, Deborah Lipstadt, Amy Eilberg, Elyse Goldstein, Tamar Frankiel and others (male and…

Changing Jewish Laws About Women?

…inequality in Judaism, and try to reform the religion from within. In her new book, Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism (Brandeis University Press, $29.95), Tamar Ross does…

Nitzah Marsha Jospe

Dying of cancer at age 32, she wrote this ethical will to her three small children: Sunday, Rosh Hodesh Adar 5740, February 17, 1980 I’m afraid Tamar won’t remember me….

Breathing Life into Ancient Narratives

…own stories, talk to one another and to God. We hear Eve and Lilith conversing in the garden, Rebekkah speaking to Mahalat (Esau’s wife), Tamar talking to Bilhah, Yaelto Deborah….

“Unborn”

…Hasan-Rokem and Tamar Hess (The Feminist Press). Reprinted with permission. About “Unborn,” the editors explain: “The main post biblical Hebrew text, the Talmud, both the Babylonian and the Palestinian, is…

My First Days at Kheder

…In a chapter about Pauline Wengeroff (the author of this accompanying kheder memoir) in the new book. Gender and Judaism, edited by Tamar Rudavsky [New York University Press, 19951, Shulamit…

Happening

…Studies Project, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Church Road and Greenwood Avenue, Wyncote, PA 19095. TELL YOUR STORY How can our Biblical mothers, Deena and Tamar, act as role models for Jewish…