Women & Feminism

These women use diaries, memoirs, fiction, and poetry to express their Holocaust experience.

Gender and sexuality are motifs for women Holocaust writers.

The sequence of the tractates in the Order

New information about the economic and religious lives of medieval Jewish women.

Anorexia and bulimia are amongst the most emotionally and physically devastating disorders affecting young Jewish women.

What it means to be a contemporary mother and to be a Jewish mother today

Selections from two tehines (women's prayers)

Not part of the fixed liturgy, women used these prayers to commemorate special holidays and special times in their lives.

In the Torah, women are absent at the covenantal moment; to make up for this, Jewish history must be reconstructed.

If we reject male God language, we lose a powerful metaphor: the husband-wife relationship between God and the Jews.

Because the evolution of Judaism is affected by social conditions, it can be actively developed to be gender sensitive.