Praise for Rebecca Alpert:
One of the first women ever ordained a rabbi, Rebecca Alpert gives compelling voice to the values and politics of progressive Jews who care about the fate of the world and everyone in it. She has been a leader in Jewish thinking about justice in our time.
-Adrienne Rich, poet and 2006 winner of National Book Foundation "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters"
No one has more deftly woven threads of feminism, Jewish wisdom, and progressive politics into a single sacred fabric than Rebecca Alpert. Among the leading teachers of Judaism and its renewal, she has courageously stood for what is right and what is just throughout her distinguished career in shaping apprentices into rabbis, shaping students into scholars, and shaping Americans into meeting their social responsibilities.
-Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Founder and Director of The Shalom Center
One of the first women ever ordained a rabbi, Rebecca Alpert gives compelling voice to the values and politics of progressive Jews who care about the fate of the world and everyone in it. She has been a leader in Jewish thinking about justice in our time.
-Adrienne Rich, poet and 2006 winner of National Book Foundation "Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters"
No one has more deftly woven threads of feminism, Jewish wisdom, and progressive politics into a single sacred fabric than Rebecca Alpert. Among the leading teachers of Judaism and its renewal, she has courageously stood for what is right and what is just throughout her distinguished career in shaping apprentices into rabbis, shaping students into scholars, and shaping Americans into meeting their social responsibilities.
-Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Founder and Director of The Shalom Center
Whose Torah?
A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism
hardcover
$23.95 / £13.99
Noted scholar and groundbreaking Rabbi Rebecca Alpert discusses what the Torah actually says about sex, war, poverty, the environment, and other major contemporary issues—from noted feminist scholar and groundbreaking rabbi Rebecca Alpert
Jews believe in a God whose main interest was to take a bunch of rebellious slaves and set them free from oppression—who could top that? —from Whose Torah?
Rabbi Rebecca Alpert is a leading voice in progressive Judaism. A crusader for reform within the Jewish community, she was one of the first women in Jewish history to be ordained a rabbi. Alpert is a celebrated teacher, an expert on Jewish American religious history, and a key public advocate for progressive social issues in contemporary Jewish life.
In Whose Torah?, Alpert sketches a compelling portrait of the progressive values that belong to the core of Judaism today. Reaching deeply into the sources of Jewish tradition, she highlights with unflinching moral clarity the textual basis for a truly just vision of life for all who care about sexual, economic, and racial justice and for those who would oppose all forms of discrimination, unjust war, and the destruction of the environment. Alpert also carefully considers what it means to be Jewish in contemporary America—offering both a passionate and deeply learned defense of progressive Jewish identity.
Whose Torah? will be an essential intellectual resource for progressive Jews and for anyone searching for the religious underpinnings of contemporary progressive politics.
Rebecca Alpert is the chair of the religion department and an associate professor of religion and women’s studies at Temple University and was one of the first women in Jewish history to be ordained a rabbi. She has written widely on progressive religion and Judaism; among her books are Like Bread on the Seder Plate and Exploring Judaism (with Jacob Straub). She lives in Philadelphia.
Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University, is the author of numerous, widely acclaimed books on Gnosticism and early Christianity, including The Gnostic Gospels, Beyond Belief, and Reading Judas.
June
Hardcover, 978-1-59558-336-9
$23.95 / ₤13.99 / $27.95 CAN
5 1/2” x 8 1/4”, 192 pages
Religion / Sociology
In Whose Torah?, Alpert sketches a compelling portrait of the progressive values that belong to the core of Judaism today. Reaching deeply into the sources of Jewish tradition, she highlights with unflinching moral clarity the textual basis for a truly just vision of life for all who care about sexual, economic, and racial justice and for those who would oppose all forms of discrimination, unjust war, and the destruction of the environment. Alpert also carefully considers what it means to be Jewish in contemporary America—offering both a passionate and deeply learned defense of progressive Jewish identity.
Whose Torah? will be an essential intellectual resource for progressive Jews and for anyone searching for the religious underpinnings of contemporary progressive politics.
Rebecca Alpert is the chair of the religion department and an associate professor of religion and women’s studies at Temple University and was one of the first women in Jewish history to be ordained a rabbi. She has written widely on progressive religion and Judaism; among her books are Like Bread on the Seder Plate and Exploring Judaism (with Jacob Straub). She lives in Philadelphia.
Elaine Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University, is the author of numerous, widely acclaimed books on Gnosticism and early Christianity, including The Gnostic Gospels, Beyond Belief, and Reading Judas.
June
Hardcover, 978-1-59558-336-9
$23.95 / ₤13.99 / $27.95 CAN
5 1/2” x 8 1/4”, 192 pages
Religion / Sociology
Spring 2008
hardcover
5 1/4 x 7 1/2, 176 pages
978-1-59558-336-9
hardcover
5 1/4 x 7 1/2, 176 pages
978-1-59558-336-9
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