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Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Content -- Beginnings -- Beginning Again -- The Necessity of Poetry in My Life -- Report from the Trenches -- Passion -- Yizkor -- Israel -- Repairing the World: The Work of Tikkun Olam -- Daily Prayer -- We All Stood Together -- Brigadoon, A Place for Dreams to Grow -- Readers' and Writers' Guide -- Back Matter -- Glossary -- Index of Poems -- Literary Sources -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

Genizah Sociolinguistics: the Language of Women / Esther-Miriam Wagner -- The Challenge of Reading Women's Letters from the Cairo Genizah / Renée Levine Melammed -- Jewish Women in Muslim Legal Venues: Seven Legal Documents from the Cairo Genizah / Oded Zinger -- Captives, Converts, and Concubines: Gendered Aspects of Conversion to Judaism in the Medieval Near East / Moshe Yagur -- No (Jewish) Women in Hell / Tali Artman-Partock -- Portrayals of Biblical Figures in Lost Aggadic Traditions from the Cairo Genizah: Feminist Considerations / Moshe Lavee.

"This book is an authoritative reference work for a twenty-first century audience. Its entries, written by eminent scholars, define the spiritual and intellectual concepts and movements that distinguish Judaism and the Jewish experience. The book discusses central figures and literary works, formative historical events, Jewish rituals and practices, and it illuminates the lives of ordinary Jewish men and women. But what makes this dictionary different is its broad exploration of the Jewish experience beyond Judaism, including literature, art, music, theater, dance, film, broadcasting, sports, and ecology, among many other topics from the Bible to the internet"--

Sexual identity and psychoanalysis in traditional Judaism -- Preface: moving the conversation along by / Jack Drescher, MD -- Does God make referrals : Orthodox Judaism and homosexuality / Alan Slomowitz, Ph.D. and Alison Feit, Ph.D -- Collateral damage : clinical and theoretical material of the unrecognized psychic and social damage caused by not recognizing and accepting LGBTQ members into the full context of the Orthodox community / Mark Blechner, Ph.D -- Discussion of "does god make referrals : Orthodox Judaism and homosexuality" / Ronnie Lesser, Ph.D -- Response to does god make referrals and Drs. Blechner and Lesser papers / Rabbi Mark Dratch, LMSW -- Pastoral counselling and LGBTQ Orthodox Jews / Michelle Friedman, MD -- Gay Jewish men in the Orthodox Jewish community : striving for selfhood / Jeremy Novich, Ph.D -- The parents are our future / Miryam Kabakov, LMSW -- Envisioning an orthodox gay wedding / Rabbi Steven Greenberg -- Women known for these acts / Elaine Chapnik, JD -- Gender identity and psychoanalysis in traditional Judaism -- Fausto-sterling : the dynamic development of gender variability / Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph.D -- Transgender experiences and issues in Orthodox Jewish community : summary of findings / Oriol Poveda, Ph.D -- Genocide, transsexuality, the limits of coherence, and the radiance of the universe / Ben Baader, Ph.D -- Border crossings : commentary on Ben Baader's paper / Seth Aronson, Psy.D -- Knowing the soul of the stranger / Joy Ladin, Ph.D -- Rabbinic and halachic discourse on sex change surgery and gender definition / Hillel Gray, Ph.D -- Orthodox Judaism and its transgender members / Rabbi Hayim Shaffner, LCSW.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Chapter 1: Editorial Introduction The Study of Religion in Israeli Social Science -- 2 Chapter 2: Sociological Analyses of Religion -- 3 Chapter 3: Dimensions of Jewish Religiosity -- Part II: Political Dimensions of Israeli Judaism -- 4 Chapter 4: Jewish Civilization: Approaches to Problems of Israeli Society -- 5 Chapter 5: State Ceremonies of Israel: Remembrance Day and Independence Day -- 6 Chapter 6: Religious Adherence and Political Attitudes -- 7 Chapter 7: Religion in the Israeli Discourse on the Arab-Jewish Conflict -- 8 Life Tradition and Book Tradition in the Development of Ultraorthodox Judaism -- 9 Ultraorthodox Jewish Women -- Part IV: Nationalist Orthodoxy -- 10 Religious Kibbutzim: Judaism and Modernization -- 11 A Mystic-Messianic Interpretation of Modem Israeli History: The Six-Day War in the Religious Culture of Gush Emunim -- Part V: The Sephardic Pattern -- 12 The Religiosity of Middle Eastern Jews -- 13 Secularization and the Diminishing Decline of Religion -- 14 Saints' Sanctuaries in Development Towns -- 15 The Religion of Elderly Oriental Jewish Women -- Part VI: Secularism and Reform -- 16 Hanukkah and the Myth of the Maccabees in Ideology and in Society -- 17 Death Customs in a Non-Religious Kibbutz -- 18 Americans in the Israeli Reform and Conservative Denominations -- 19 Religion and Democracy in Israel -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Authors

Machine generated contents note: Introduction Judith R. Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin; 1. The Hebrew Bible and the early history of Israel Marc Zvi Brettler; 2. The Second Temple Period Alan F. Segal; 3. The rabbinic movement Hayim Lapin; 4. The Jewish experience in the Muslim world Norman A. Stillman; 5. Jewish life in Western Christendom Robert Chazan; 6. Jews and Judaism in early modern Europe Adam Shear; 7. European Jewry: 1800-1933 Marsha L. Rozenblit; 8. Jews and Judaism in the United States Pamela S. Nadell; 9. The Shoah and its legacies Peter Hayes; 10. The founding of modern Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict Bernard Reich; 11. The centrality of Talmud Michael S. Berger; 12. Judaism as a religious system Harvey E. Goldberg; 13. Jewish worship and liturgy Ruth Langer; 14. Jewish private life: gender, marriage, and the lives of women Judith R. Baskin; 15. Jewish philosophy Kenneth Seeskin; 16. Jewish mysticism Hava Tirosh-Samuelson; 17. Modern Jewish thought Leora Batnitzky; 18. Contemporary forms of Judaism Dana Evan Kaplan; 19. Jewish popular culture Jeffrey Shandler; 20. Aspects of Israeli society Judith R Baskin; 21. The futures of world Jewish communities Calvin Goldscheider; Glossary; Time line

Between 1391 and the end of the 15th century, many Spanish Jews were forced to convert to Christianity, though many maintained clandestine ties to Judaism. This study demonstrates the role played by the crypto-Jewish women of Castile in the perpetuation of crypto-Jewish traditions and culture

"This book investigates one of the major issues that runs through the history of Italian Judaism in the aftermath of emancipation: the correlation between integration, seen as the acquisition of citizenship and culture without renouncing Jewish identity, and assimilation, intended as an open refusal of Judaism of any participation in the community. On account of that correlation, identity has become one of the crucial problems in the history of the Italian Jewish community. This volume aims to discuss the setting of construction and formation--the family-- and focuses on women's experiences, specifically. Indeed, women were called through emancipation to ensure the continuity of Jewish religious and cultural heritage. It speaks to the growing interest for Women's and Gender Studies in Italy, and for the research on women's organizations which testify to the strong presence of Jewish women in the emancipation movement. These women formed a sisterhood that fought to obtain rights that were until then only accorded to men, and they were deeply socially engaged in such a way that was crucial to the overall process of the integration of Jews into Italian society"--Page 4 of cover

Abstract: In the last century, in both Islam and Judaism, female religious trailblazers have taken on roles traditionally dominated by men. In this study, I examine parallels between individual Muslim and Jewish female religious trailblazers under three rubrics: Exegesis of the Holy Book : Nehama Leibowitz and Aisha Abd al-Rahman; Delving into Oral Law : Judith Hauptman and Kecia Ali; and Crafting Responsa : Suad Saleh and Malka Puterkovsky. Remarkably, although these Muslim and Jewish women functioned in very different societies and within rather different religious traditions, they have much in common. The reasons for this seem to be the similar sociologies of Judaism and Islam, on the one hand, and the increasing globalization of the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries, on the other. Inevitably, there has been disagreement as to the extent to which these women were themselves feminists or contributed to women's advancement, dealt with the patriarchy of their time and place, or explicitly supported male dominance.

"In this book, Mary Doak shows how the church must rectify its own historic failures to embody the unity-in-diversity it proclaims, especially with regard to women and Jews. Only then, and through responding to the demands of the current global crises, can we learn what it means to be the church-that is, to be a prophetic witness and public agent of the harmony that God desires and the world deeply needs"--