What does it mean to re-vision Torah? Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, woman, rabbi, scholar, and feminist, challenges and defends, rereads and reinterprets the ancient text, revealing to modern readers a way to see Judaism anew, for a new vision, a "revision", of the Torah. Goldstein boldly brings the Torah into a contemporary context at the same time she honestly reconciles its past.

Anchored in Jewish ethical tradition, community-building, and an activist's call to repair the world, "Hope into Practice" is about human liberation, linking personal healing with social justice. It also asks Jewish women to love ourselves enough to face our fears without acting on them-expanding our sense of possibility, empowering our activism. This book brings to life an irresistible blend of healing stories, fascinating history, and a fair-minded...

The authors debate the nature of divinity, proposing a new method called embodied theology. They agree that the transcendent, omnipotent, male God of traditional theology must be reimagined. Christ proposes that Goddess is the intelligent embodied love that is in all being. Plakow counters that God is an impersonal power of creativity that includes both good and evil. Rooting their views in experience and questioning each other, they offer a fruitful...

"Kaddish, Women's Voices explores what the recitation of the Jewish mourner's Kaddish prayer meant to different women who made a commitment to say it in Synagogue. It is a record of modern women searching for their place within an ancient Jewish tradition"--