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Author
Publisher
Apples & Honey Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This true story of the first woman ever ordained as a rabbi -- in Germany in 1935 -- will inspire children to pursue their dreams and to persist in the face of challenges. Written by Rabbi Sandy Sasso, the first Reconstructionist woman rabbi in the United States, the book also features an Afterword with historical context about the Nazi Germany setting and about the female ordinations in the various Jewish movements."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
From Mary M. Cohen, who first published an article on the ordination question in 1889, to Sally Priesand, the first woman rabbi, to the continuing controversy over ordination in Orthodox Judaism, the full story of Jewish women's long struggle to become rabbis has never been told - until now. Pamela S. Nadell mines a wealth of untapped sources - newspapers, letters, temple records - to create the first in-depth account of the debates surrounding women's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions--a rabbi who craves goodness and surety while wrestling with her own desires and with the sorrow and pain she sees around her. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman, an older man who has attempted suicide. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust when he was a child, and all his life he's struggled with difficult questions. Deborah's encounter with Henry and his...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Nachman is a Rabbi without a synagogue. Having resigned from her dwindling congregation, she now works as a college counselor at a small Vermont college advising students about private matters and offering the "Jewish perspective" on issues raised at faculty dinner parties.
Deeply lonely and on the edge of losing her faith, she comes into possession of a Torah, the last relic of Czechowa, a village of Polish Jews who were exterminated by...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Osnat Barzani, also known as Asnat or Asenath Barzani, the world's first female rabbi, was born almost five hundred years ago, during a time when few girls were allowed to read. Her father was a great scholar whose house was filled with books, and she convinced him to teach her. She grew up to teach others, becoming a wise and famous scholar in her own right.-- Adapted from inside front jacket flap, Amazon.com, and a Jerusalem Post article about...
