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Nonfiction Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman and Elana Maryles Sztokman
Essay How to Find an Expert Sorceress, According to the Talmud This week, Maggie Anton — the author of the Rashi’s Daughters series and, most recently, Rav Hisda’s Daugther: A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery—blogs for The… Maggie Anton November 19, 2013
Nonfiction Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves, and Other Female Villains Jane Yolen & Heidi E. Y. Stemple; Rebecca Guay, illus.
Nonfiction Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature Ronit Irshai; Joel A. Linsider, trans.
Nonfiction Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State: Israel’s Civil War Susan M. Weiss & Netty C. Gross-Horowitz
Nonfiction The Dynamics of Becoming Orthodox: Dutch Jewish Women Returning to Judaism and How Their Mothers Felt about It Minny E. Mock-Degen
Nonfiction Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity Nora Rose Moosnick
Essay The Teacher Has Plenty to Learn Earlier this week, Melissa R. Klapper wrote about abortion and the complexity of halacha and 5 American Jewish women you’ve (probably) never heard of. She… Melissa R. Klapper July 19, 2013
Essay Abortion, Birth Control, and the Complexity of Halacha (Jewish Law) Earlier this week, Melissa R. Klapper wrote about 5 American Jewish women you’ve (probably) never heard of. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Melissa R. Klapper July 17, 2013
Essay Top 5 American Jewish Women Most People Have Never Heard Of Melissa R. Klapper is a professor of history at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Her newest book, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace American Jewish… Melissa R. Klapper July 15, 2013
Nonfiction Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890 – 1940 Melissa R. Klapper
Essay Making the Invisible Visible: The Bildungsroman and the Jewish Woman Janice Weizman was born in Toronto, and moved to Israel at the age of nineteen. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Bar-Ilan University, where… Janice Weizman June 3, 2013
