Creator Bio
Rachel Adler
b. 1943
Born in Chicago, Rachel Adler is the Rabbi David Ellenson Professor of Jewish Religious Thought and Professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College–JIR/Los Angeles. The recipient of a National Jewish Book Award, Adler has written studies and many articles that approach theology from a feminist and Reform perspective.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Jew Who Wasn’t There
It is not unusual for committed Jewish women to be uneasy about their position as Jews. It was to cry down our doubts that rabbis developed their pre-packaged orations on the nobility of motherhood…
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Brit Ahuvim: A Lovers’ Covenant
Kinyan, or symbolic acquisition of the partnership, is the third traditional element of partnership law embodied in the b’rit ahuvim, and it is fraught with…