Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues articles from March 2005

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues archives from March 2005

Introduction.(spiritual literature on jewish women)
March 22, 2005... For years, I have been studying the spiritual journey as a literary genre. The Jewish spiritual journey, female or male, fictional or autobiographical, is typically distinct from the Christian one, which is so much more familiar that it is...

In search of a feminist reading of the Akedah.(jewish women literature)
March 22, 2005... Being a feminist woman, or a womanly reader, means that every issue is a feminist issue, and there is a feminist perspective on every subject. Athalya Brenner, A Feminist Companion to Song of Songs (1) Our horrified reaction to the...

A Christian means to a conversa end.(research of religious convertion of Jewish women)
March 22, 2005... In 1499, seven years after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the conversa Ines of Herrera envisioned an apparition foretelling the advent of the messianic age and the salvation of conversos faithful to the laws of Moses. Her visions...

Holle's cry: unearthing a birth goddess in a German Jewish naming ceremony.
March 22, 2005... One avenue of inquiry in feminist spirituality has been the exploration of folklore and folk ritual related to women. Folk ritual often contains elements from outside Jewish law and tradition, imported from idiosyncratic or syncretic local...

"Opening the blue of heaven to us": (1) reading anew the pioneers of women's ordination.
March 22, 2005... "Seeking the face of God, striving to live in His presence and to fashion the life of holiness appropriate to God's presence--these have ever been the core of that religious civilization known to the world as Judaism." Arthur Green, Jewish...

Ritualwell.org--loading the virtual canon, or: the politics and aesthetics of Jewish women's spirituality.
March 22, 2005... In the several decades since spirituality was rediscovered and popularized by a generation of middle-class Americans in rebellion against empty religious conventions and in search of meaning and self-expression, Jewish women's spirituality has...

Tehinnat hanashim levinyan hamikdash the supplication of the mothers for the rebuilding of the temple: excerpts and commentary.
March 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION "On account of you, Rachel, I will return Israel to their place." According to a midrash on the Book of Lamentations, this was God's response to the plea of Rachel the matriarch that He restore the exiled people to its home....

Tehinnat hanashim levinyan hamikdash: a conversation.(Interview)
March 22, 2005... CW: Yael, it is fascinating that you have become so involved with the tehinnah form. You have written many new tehinnot in Hebrew. Can you tell me something about how and why you began to write tehinnot? Were you inspired by the Yiddish tkhines...

Waiting for the Messiah, a tambourine in her hand.
March 22, 2005... Between March and July of 1994, the period just before and after the death of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, I was doing fieldwork among Lubavitch women in Crown Heights, New York, and in Morristown, New Jersey, home of the...

A challenging grittiness: spirituality in jewish women's art.(Resident Artist)
March 22, 2005... There are many parallels between spiritual work and creative process. Hailing from a wide spectrum of artistic backgrounds and religious practice, each artist discussed here addresses spiritual themes that assume the existence of a divine...

Three steps forward, two steps back.
March 22, 2005... A couple of months ago, I was at a meeting of Jewish feminists at which we tried to formulate next steps for a cross-denominational feminist agenda. In order to keep ourselves from sinking into a sense of powerlessness and despair, we began by...

Approaches to the representations of women in Rabbinic literature.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... Judith Hauptman, Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman's Voice Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998 Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,...

Carol Meyers, General Editor Toni Craven and Ross S. Kraemer, Associate Editors: Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Carol Meyers, General Editor Toni Craven and Ross S. Kraemer, Associate Editors Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament. Boston-New York:...