The Jew Who Wasn’t There

Rachel Adler

1971

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; the glory of childbirth; and modesty, the crown of Jewish womanhood. I have heard them all. I could not accept those answers for two reasons. First of…

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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.

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