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Four approaches to women and the Jewish experience / Judith R. Baskin -- Jewish feminist approaches to the bible / Esther Fuchs -- Women and Torah study in aggadah / Dvora E. Weisberg -- Women and Jewish law / Judith Hauptman -- Women in medieval Jewish societies / Renée Levine Melammed -- The mystical spirituality of eastern European Jewish women / Chava Weissler -- How central European Jewish women confronted modernity / Harriet Pass Freidenreich -- Women and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell -- Women's transformations of contemporary Jewish life / Sylvia Barack Fishman -- Women in Jewish American literature / Sara R. Horowitz -- Text, nation, and gender in Israeli women's fiction / Nehama Aschkenasy -- Women and Judaism : from invisibility to integration / Frederick E. Greenspahn

"Her mouth is full of wisdom" : reflections on Jewish feminist theology Rochelle L. Millen -- Meanings of shekhinah in the "Jewish renewal" movement Chava Weissler -- A tent of one's own : feminist biblical scholarship, a popular novel, and the fate of the biblical text Adriane B. Leveen -- Women in Reform Judaism : between rhetoric and reality Karla Goldman -- Mitzvah, gender, and Reconstructionist Judaism Deborah Dash Moore and Andrew Bush -- The tensions that merit our attention : women in Conservative Judaism Shuly Rubin Schwartz -- Women in Orthodoxy : conventional and contentious Norma Baumel Joseph -- Bridges to "a Judaism transformed by women's wisdom" : the first generation of women rabbis Pamela S. Nadell -- Phasing in : Rosh Hodesh ceremonies in American Jewish life Jody Myers -- Miriam's object lesson : ritualizing the presence of Miriam Vanessa L. Ochs -- Finding her right place in the synagogue : the rite of adult bat mitzvah Lisa D. Grant

"Feminist theories maintain that gender issues are a ubiquitous component of our lives, intersecting with every aspect of the society in which we live and interact. Because the feminist debate has included questions important to Jewish discourse, including religion, antisemitism, Zionism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is not surprising that such matters should also be of concern to Jewish women, many of whom have played an active role in feminist movements. In "Jewish Voices in Feminism," Nelly Las navigates primarily among three cultures (French, Anglo-American, and Israeli) to present a philosophical and historical analysis of the intersection between contemporary Jewish dilemmas and feminism and its impact on Jewish thinking. She also explains the ambivalent attitude of feminist activists regarding current developments in the Jewish world. This book, based on extensive documentation that includes written and oral testimonies, provides a wide variety of gender-centered approaches to ethics, solidarity, identity, and memory"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: firoozeh kashani-sabet and beth s. wenger -- 1. Jewish and Muslim feminist theologies in dialogue: discourses of difference -- 2. Jewish and Islamic legal traditions: diffusions of law -- 3. Scholarly versus women's authority in the Islamic law of menstrual purity -- 4. Gender duality and its subversions in rabbinic law -- 5. Gender and reproductive technologies in shia Iran -- 6. Not a man: Joseph and the character of masculinity in Judaism and Islam -- 7. Dishonorable passions: law and virtue in Muslim communities -- 8. Legislating the family: gender, Jewish law, and rabbinical courts in mandate Palestine -- 9. A literary perspective: domestic violence, the "woman question," and the "Arab question" in early Zionism -- 10. An autobiographical perspective: schools, jails, and cemeteries in shoshanna levy's life story -- 11. An artistic perspective the women of bahram beizai's cinema -- Afterword: common ground, contested terrain -- Glossary -- About the contributors -- Index

Jerusalem's Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif is the holiest place in the world for Jews, the third holiest place for Muslims and a constant feature in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet the gendered dimensions of inter-communal disputes over sacred space in Jerusalem, as well as in other holy places around the world, have been largely neglected, as have women's roles in these site-specific conflicts. An implicit association of women with peaceful politics and syncretic religious practices has obscured the fact that women are often key actors in inter-communal contestation of holy places. This study looks to three contemporary women's movements in and around Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade: Women for the Temple - a Jewish Orthodox movement for access to Temple Mount; The Murabitat - Muslim women activists devoted to the protection of Al-Aqsa Mosque from Jewish claims; and Women of the Wall - a Jewish feminist mobilization against restrictive gender regulations at the Western Wall. Lihi Ben-Shitrit demonstrates how attention to gender and to women's engagement in conflict over sacred places is essential for understanding what makes contested sacred sites increasingly 'indivisible' for