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Center for Liberal
and its legacy.
Jewish
Learning in
Other contributors
Toronto,
she serves as
also use metaphors
rabbinic director.
related to birth. In
In the book's appen-
her piece on
dix, the description of
Devarim,"Essence
contributors makes for
NEW INSIGHTS FROM WOMEN
and Transcendence,"
RABBIS ON THE 54 WEEKLY
interesting reading, too.
Rabbi Analia Bortz
TORAH PORTIONS
Along
with the usual
of Valparaiso, Chile,
biographical
informa-
cites a classical
tion,
each
of
the women
midrash that
comments on her moti-
describes Moses as
vation and encourage-
pregnant with the
ment in choosing the
Jewish people. She
rabbinate.
explains that he can
Rabbi Goldstein, 46,
be thought of as the
recounts
how she want-
mother of the Jewish
ed
to
be
a
rabbi from
people, giving birth
the time of her bat
and sending the peo-
mitzvah in Forest Hills,
ple out on their own.
Queens. In her Hebrew school class, she
Another contributor, Rabbi Ilene
explains, she was the only young woman
Schneider of Gratz College in
Pennsylvania, draws links between kashrut to choose to have a bat mitzvah —
many of the others were faced with the
and eating disorders in her piece on
choice of a bat mitzvah or a Sweet
Shemini, "Kashrut, Food and Women."
Sixteen party and chose the latter.
"What
In writing about Mishpatim,
After reading from the Torah, she put
Must We Do?" Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-
aside the speech that the rabbi had
Kreimer, who is affiliated with
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in written for her and instead announced
that she was going to be a rabbi. People
Philadelphia, uses the laws about deal-
gasped, she recalls, and the rabbi joked
ing kindly with strangers as a jumping
that she really meant rebbetzin, the
off point to talk about rules for living a
Yiddish
term for rabbi's wife.
good life, and how we select our mem-
But
for
her, "standing up there seemed
ories, making a connection between
the
most
natural
thing in the world.
our past and our calling in the world.
This was where I belonged." In 1983,
Rabbi Goldstein, author of
she was ordained at Hebrew Union
ReVisions: Seeing Torah Through a
College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Feminist Lens, a book she describes as
She and her husband now are the par-
a primer on Jewish feminist issues
ents of three sons — ages 7, 9 and 11
related to the Torah, is also profession-
— and she describes the experience as
ally involved in bringing together Jews
"the shechinah's test of a real feminist,"
from different backgrounds for study.
that is, raising three feminist boys. 0
The founder of Kolel, The Adult

THE WOMEN'S
TORMI y
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An odyssey through the greatest stories ever told.

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t the seders author Bruce Feiler
attended this Passover, he no doubt
A
told the other guests about his experi-

ence crossing Lake Timsah in Egypt,
thought to be the Red Sea of the Bible.
In a boat made out of eucalyptus
about the size of a bathtub, he and four
others were rowed by a 16-year-old
named Mohammed who trawled the
waters daily for what he called Moses
fish. As the boy's oars hit the turquoise
water, Feiler imagined the boulevard of

dry ground that the Israelites walked
across in pursuit of freedom.
Feiler recounts this episode in Walking
the Bible: A journey By Land Through the
Five Books of Moses" (Morrow; $26). "I
want people to be on that boat with me,
crossing the Red Sea, feeling the excite-
ment and fear that the Israelites must
have felt," he says in an interview
Walking the Bible is armchair travel
reading with a spiritual bent. Along with
Israeli archaeologist Avner Goren, Feller
retraced chronologically the Five Books
of Moses, traveling 10,000 miles, with
stops in Turkey, Israel, Egypt, the Sinai,