Women and Jewish Law - Biale, Rachel
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How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special concern to women. Combining a historical overview with a thoughtful feminist critique, this pathbreaking study points the way for "informed change" in the status of women in Jewish life.

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How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special concern to women. Combining a historical overview with a thoughtful feminist critique, this pathbreaking study points the way for "informed change" in the status of women in Jewish life.
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Rachel Biale has been in practice as a parenting consultant/coach for over 40 years.She earned a BA and MA in Jewish History at UCLA and a Master of Social Work from Yeshiva University. She worked as a clinical social worker for over 30 years, including a parenting counseling private practice. She wrote a parenting advice column for the J.Weekly (the Bay Area Jewish community's paper) for 3 years. She's collected her "parenting wisdom" in this book.She has also published several other books in other fields, including a scholarly work, Women and Jewish Law (1984), a memoir, Growing Up Below Sea Level: A Kibbutz Childhood (2018), Lost and Found (2020), a historical novel, and a joint memoir with her husband, Aerograms Across the Ocean: A Love Story in Letters 1970-72 (2020)