The element of this essay that I found to be fscinating is the conflict. The conflict between how “Haredi Judaism is caught between the perceived purity of a child-centered nuclear family, which encourages female domesticity,…
Kulp, Joshua. “The Participation of a Court in the Jewish Conversion Process.” Jewish Quarterly Review 94, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 437–70. doi:10.1353/jqr.2004.0068. This journal article discusses the development of rabbinic laws regarding conversion into Judaism,…
“Because while naming is fascinating thing worthy of much conversation, it also turns out that some people enjoy a particular parlor game of learning the birth names of transpeople.” “For me my change of name…
I went about finding my book through the Trexler Library catalog. I searched for books that had to do with conversions from Christianity or Catholicism to Judaism. I was not sure going in if I…
“We are left to assume that women raised in rabbinic households somehow acquired knowledge, but, again the Talmud displays no interest in how that acquisition occurred or what part rabbis played in educating their daughters”…
I am interested in learning more about conversions through research and the book report. I am interested in this topic because it allows me to bring together the Jewish perspective and my Catholic upbringing. I…
The section of Cohen’s essay that I found interesting and almost shocking was the part titled “Sex and the (Not So) Single Scholar”. This section opens with Cohen’s discussion the gender of Rabbis and how…
One of the elements of Plaskow’s essay that I found really interested is what she categorized as the “yeah yeah experience”. I found this term to be very raw and honest. Seeing yourself in the…
