JTS Both/And

7: Hearing women’s voices and moving “from path to pathlessness”


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Jewish feminism has been a major influence on Conservative Judaism since the 1970s. Judith Hauptman, professor emerita at JTS, has brought her deep knowledge of rabbinic literature to developing new positions on women’s halakhic obligations. Mara Benjamin is soon to publish a book that uses her own experience of motherhood as a lens on Jewish ethics. A further example of innovating out of a thorough understanding of the tradition comes from Arthur Green, who syntheses Kaplan and Heschel into a naturalist mystical theology.

Further reading
Hauptman: “Women and Prayer: An Attempt to Dispel Some Fallacies,” (JUDAISM, Winter 1993) https://ohelayalah.org/wp-content/uploads/article.pdf
Mara Benjamin, The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought (2018)
Arthur Green, “Rethinking Theology,” Radical Judaism, 1-15
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