Beginning Anew

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JUDAICA/WOMEN'S STUDIES
"Reimer and Kates have done it again! They have gathered the best writers to address the most powerful of themes. You will laugh, wonder, weep, and think about your own new beginnings. The words will echo in your soul, not one season but all year long."
—Blu Greenberg, author of On Women and Judaism
Beginning Anew is an anthology of women's spiritual writing for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the two holiest days of the Jewish calendar. Compiled by Gail Reimer and Judith Kates, the acclaimed editors of Reading Ruth, it includes new interpretations of Biblical texts by preeminent authors, scholars, and educators, including novelists Rosellen Brown and Rebecca Goldstein; Harvard Law School professor Martha Minow; feminist theologian Rachel Adler; Laura Geller, the first woman to be chosen as a rabbi of a major synagogue; Orthodox feminist Bible scholar Avivah Zornberg; Carolivia Herron, a Jewish African American writer; and many others. Beginning Anew is a... Tovább

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JUDAICA/WOMEN'S STUDIES
"Reimer and Kates have done it again! They have gathered the best writers to address the most powerful of themes. You will laugh, wonder, weep, and think about your own new beginnings. The words will echo in your soul, not one season but all year long."
—Blu Greenberg, author of On Women and Judaism
Beginning Anew is an anthology of women's spiritual writing for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, the two holiest days of the Jewish calendar. Compiled by Gail Reimer and Judith Kates, the acclaimed editors of Reading Ruth, it includes new interpretations of Biblical texts by preeminent authors, scholars, and educators, including novelists Rosellen Brown and Rebecca Goldstein; Harvard Law School professor Martha Minow; feminist theologian Rachel Adler; Laura Geller, the first woman to be chosen as a rabbi of a major synagogue; Orthodox feminist Bible scholar Avivah Zornberg; Carolivia Herron, a Jewish African American writer; and many others. Beginning Anew is a wonderful and exciting new collection that will be embraced by women and men looking for a more meaningful understanding of the Bible and the High Holy Days.
"Penetrating and brimming with creative insights, this collection revives our excitement and wonder at these most important days in the Jewish calendar. With Beginning Anew, the mantle of midrash comes to fit firmly on women's shoulders. These women teach us all, male and female, the true meaning of the Jewish High Holy Days."
—Burton L. Visotzky, author of The Genesis of Ethics
"Deepens our understanding and increases our amazement at the psychological wisdom of the Jewish tradition. Read this before going to synagogue each Rosh Hashana."
—Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation and editor of Tikkun magazine
Gail Twersky Reimer is director of the Jewish Women's Archive in Brookline, Massachusetts. Judith A. Kates teaches Jewish Women's Studies and Bible at Hebrew College in Brookline. They are the editors of Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story. Vissza