Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site

Women of the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's Holy Site
ISBN-10
1580237355
ISBN-13
9781580237352
Series
Women of the Wall
Category
Religion
Pages
510
Language
English
Published
2013-07-02
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Authors
Phyllis Chesler, Rivka Haut

Description

An Inspiration to All Who Struggle for Religious and Gender Equality “Our souls yearn to pray, in peace, in the sacred place, to read from our holy Torah, together with other Jewish women.” —from the In Israel today, the historic Western Wall, known as the Kotel, a holy site for Jewish people, is under the religious authority of the Orthodox rabbinate. Women have only limited rights to practice Jewish ritual in its precincts. This passionate book documents the legendary grassroots and legal struggle of a determined group of Jewish women from Israel, the United States, and other parts of the world—known as the Women of the Wall—to win the right to pray out loud together as a group, according to Jewish law; wear ritual objects; and read from Torah scrolls at the Western Wall. Eyewitness accounts of physical violence and intimidation, inspiring personal stories, and interpretations of legal and classical Jewish (halakhic) texts bring to life the historic and ongoing struggle that the Women of the Wall face in their everyday fight for religious and gender equality.

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