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New Jewish feminism : probing the past, forging the future /

"Growing up in the 1960s, the notion of a woman rabbi, a woman Israeli Supreme Court judge, an Orthodox female Talmud scholar, or an Orthodox synagogue where women read the Torah from their side of the mechitzah were impossible, even ridiculous scenarios. Yet in the modern day, all of this is r...

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Other Authors: Goldstein, Elyse., Diamant, Anita.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Woodstock, Vt. : Jewish Lights Pub., 2009.
Edition:Hardcover ed.
Subjects:
Women in Judaism.
Feminism > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Jewish women > Religious life.
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