Every morning Jewish men offering their prayers to God in the
traditional manner include the line Blessed are you Lord our God,
King of the universe who has not made me a woman. Regardless of
one's interpretation of this line, it is an inescapable fact that
traditional Judaism views women and men and their places within
Judaism quite differently.
But Judaism is not a static religion. It has always been
influenced by changes in its surrounding environment. Throughout
history, issues of gender have both influenced and been influenced
by classical and modern Jewish perspectives. This transformation
continues today, as feminist thinkers attempt to discover how
modern women fit into Jewish thought and practice. Is halakhah
gender inclusive? How do conceptualizations of the Jewish home
effect Jewish women's identities? What is the relation between the
experiences of historical Jewish women and the roles of their
present day sisters? How have changing gender roles affected the
identity of the Jewish male?
In this groundbreaking anthology, twenty scholars seek to
address these and other questions. Among the many subjects covered
are: gender boundaries in Kabbalah; images of Jewish masculinity;
the challenge of women's rabbinic leadership; Jewish feminist
theory; rabbinic responses to wife-beating; Orthodox women in the
modern world; and patriarchy, Judaism, and Nazism in German
feminist thought.
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