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usannah Heschel does

not like to talk about
women's roles within
Judaism, a curious statement
from someone who has writ-
ten a book on being a Jewish
feminist.
"No one ever talks about
`men's roles,' " she explains.
"Any discussion that tries to
define women's roles
automatically puts us in a
marginal position."
Last week Heschel was in
Michigan to deliver a lecture
at Adat Shalom Synagogue
and to address audiences in
Ann Arbor.
The daughter of Conser-
vative Jewish theologian
Abraham Joshua Heschel,
she grew up in a home en-
vironment that welcomed
equality among the sexes.
"Both my parents were very
pious, but at the same time
they were involved in leftist
political issues. They took a
stand on civil rights. There
were a lot of people who
weren't happy that my father
went to march in Selma."
An only child, Heschel
recalls "making kiddush and
leading the Birkot Hamazon
(Blessing After the Meal) for
company. I didn't know then
that it was forbidden for a girl
to do that."
However, very early
Heschel began to question
why she was looked at dif-
ferently outside her home.

"When we visited my father's
Chasidic family, I had to re-
main in the kitchen and help
the women prepare the food,
while the boys and men
gathered around my uncle,
the rebbe, in the living room.
I didn't like the Orthodox day
school .I attended in New York
City because the adults there
were so rigid. They would
scream, and they couldn't
handle questions. My parents
were very gentle people. It
had never been like that for
me at home, and so as a yOung
child I was made aware of con-
tradictions within Judaism."
Her experience at a private,
secular prep school was no
more welcoming. "Despite the
fact that a lot of the students
and teachers were Jewish,
they were uncomfortable with
me because I was more obser-
vant than they were. I kept
kosher."
Heschel was pleased with
her decision to attend Trini-
ty College, where she receiv-
ed a B.A. degree in religion in
1973. "I found a lot of warmth
there. Because it was called
Trinity College, the Jewish
students felt the need to
strongly assert their
Jewishness. I couldn't have
survived at a place like
Brandeis with a name like
Heschel."

A master's degree in
theology and church history
from- Harvard Divinity School
followed. ribday Heschel is a
doctoral candidate at the
University of Pennsylvania,