Women and Judaism

includes index and biblioraphy

PART l. FAMILY AND ENVIRONMENT 1. Unwrapping the Gift 3 Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso 2. The Ecological Message of the Holy Days 11 Ellen Bernstein 3. Sacrificing the Son 23 Alice Shalvi ,RT II. SOCIOECONOMICS, POLITICS, AND AUTHORITY 4. Woman Rabbi in Spiritual Leadership 31 Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb 5. Circles of Healing in the Time of Old Age 57 Rabbi]udith Edelstein J T III. BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT 6. Biblical Heroes as Role Models for Jewish Women 75 Rabbi Ham Person 7. Women of the Holocaust: Whispering Heroes 97 Pamela Treiber Opper 8. How Women Integrate Judaism with Other Spiritual Technologies 11 Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg PART IV. SEXUALITY, POWER, AND VULNERABILITY 9. Women in the Double Life of The Song of Songs 127 Debra Band 10. The Book of Ruth through New Eyes 145 Joy Silver 11. Becoming a Jew from a Woman`s Perspective 159 Judith Willmore PART V. WORLDVIEW AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE 12. Miriam`s Well: Unearthing the Sacred in Jewish Women`s Groups 179 Shelly Fredman 13. The Transformative Nature of the Rosh Hodesh Experience 201 Rabbi Jo David 14. A Renewed Mikvah 229 Leak Lax