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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Religious Dimensions of Human Rights -- Religious Rights: An Historical Perspective -- Human Rights and Biblical Legal Thought -- Religious Rights and Christian Texts -- Religious Activism for Human Rights: A Christian Case Study -- Human Rights in the Church -- Thinking About Women, Christianity, and Rights -- The Religious Rights of Children -- Religious Human Rights in Judaic Texts -- Forming Religious Communities and Respecting Dissenter's Rights: A Jewish Tradition for a Modem Society -- Jewish NGOs and Religious Human Rights: A Case Study -- Women in Judaism From the Perspective of Human Rights -- The Duty to Educate in Jewish Law: A Right with a Purpose -- Islamic Foundations of Religious Human Rights -- Rights of Women Within Islamic Communities -- The Treatment of Religious Dissidents Under Classical and Contemporary Islamic Law -- An Apologia for Religious Human Rights -- Religion and Human Rights: A Theological Apologetic -- Identity, Difference, and Belonging: Religious and Cultural Rights -- Bibliography of Books and Articles Cited -- Biographical Sketches of Contributors -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I: THE CULTURAL BACKGROUND -- 1 Setting the Scene -- Jewish immigration into Britain -- The American incoming -- On being an immigrant -- Ashkenazim and Sephardim -- Demography: facts and fears -- II: WOMEN AND JUDAISM -- 2 Women's Role in Judaism -- 'Blessed art thou … Who hast not made me a woman' -- Woman's rightful realm -- Images and stereotypes -- 3 Religious Law -- Women's status -- Prayer -- Religious study -- Divorce -- Agunah, the 'anchored woman' -- Can the law change? -- 4 The Religious Scene -- America -- Britain -- Ritual -- The secular Jew -- What does it mean to me, being a Jewish woman? -- 5 Aspects of Orthodoxy -- The ultra-Orthodox -- The Chassidim -- The ba'alot t'shuva: women who 'return' to strict Orthodoxy -- III: FAMILY LIFE -- 6 The Jewish Woman at Home -- The Jewish family in history -- The daughter's apprenticeship -- Myths -- Food -- Handing on tradition -- 7 Marriage, Childbearing and Sexuality -- The meaning of marriage -- Choosing a partner and the wedding ceremony -- The marital relationship and the Laws of Family Purity -- 'Be fruitful and multiply' -- Sexual morality -- Staying single -- Lesbianism -- 8 Areas of Difficulty -- Intermarriage -- Conversion -- Family breakdown and domestic violence -- Single parent families -- Women as carers -- IV: AREAS OF CHANGE -- 9 Changing Perspectives -- Secular education -- Voluntary work -- Jobs and careers -- 10 Feminism -- Within the family -- Within religion -- Woman's legal status in relation to divorce and agunah -- Feminism and Zionism -- Ambivalence and change -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Rhizomes and plateaus -- Genesis: sacred circles -- Between text and action -- Lascivious voices -- An expedition to the azure blue fringes -- Customs in and out of place -- Women counting -- Conceiving Exodus -- Blood and ink of Exodus -- Sea change -- Beyond the wall

An unorthodox guide to Orthodox Judaism -- A woman of valor (Proverbs 31:10-31) -- She puts her hand to the distaff -- A G-d-fearing woman, she should be praised: exposure, dialogue, and remedy in "Off-the-Derech" narratives -- A woman of valor who can find: crime fiction as primers of Orthodoxy -- She opens her mouth with wisdom: this bridge called my voice -- She senses that her enterprise is good: representations of Orthodox businesswomen -- She will be praised at the gates by her very own deeds: the Orthodox artist and the fruit of her hands -- Many daughters have attained valor

Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Translator's Note-A Narrative Glossary -- Prelude: The Cypresses in Magdiel -- I: The Research Site and Methods -- 1: The Demand for Midrashot -- 2: Fieldwork as Homework -- II: Next Pesach-Biographies of Students and Their Analysis -- 3: Biographies of Torah Learners -- 4: Six Colors-Many Voices -- III: Dialogues on Torah Study and the Constitution of Identity -- 5: Between Joy and Enslavement-Constructing the New Mother -- 6: Between Yavne and Jerusalem-Nationality and Citizenship: An Aggadah Class -- 7: Between Torah and Science-The Last Modernists: A Class in the Philosophy of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hakohen Kook -- IV: Anthropology and Literacy-From Critique to Participation -- Leah's Tallit -- Not Obligated but Able -- Literacy on Anthropology and Vice-Versa-Conclusion -- Epilogue: Is It a Real Revolution? Three Stations -- Notes -- List of References -- Index.

Twenty-five years ago, a group known as Ezrat Nashim challenged the Conservative movement to provide women with equal access to the religious and educational institutions of Conservative Judaism. While most of the demands made by Ezrat Nashim have now been met, the Conservative movement has by no means achieved the full integration of women into religious life. Moreover, it is unclear how Conservative Judaism has responded to feminism; has the Movement become "engendered" or has it merely allowed women to do those things previously restricted to men? This article explores the impact of feminism on Conservative Judaism from the personal perspective of the author, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary and an active Conservative Jew.

Distinguishing differences : the otherness of women in Rabbinic Judaism -- Constructing Eve : midrashic revisions of human creation -- Eve's curses : female disadvantages and their justifications -- Fruitful vines and silent partners : women as wives in Rabbinic literature -- Why were the matriarchs barren? : resolving the anomaly of female infertility -- A separate people : Rabbinic delineations of the worlds of women.