Tamar Ross is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought in the Department of Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. She has also been the central instructor of Jewish Thought at Midreshet Lindenbaum (the first women's Yeshlva) since its inception.
"This may be one of the most important works to date in tracking
the changes in Judaism over the past 2000 years." --Jewish Book
World
[Expanding the Palace of Torah is] a brave, in many ways radical
and essential, attempt to deal with the problem seriously, and is a
model of erudition and scholarship Her book offers a powerful
alternate theological vision that challenges some of the basic
assumptions of the Orthodox Jewish world, and gives a glimpse of
just how revolutionary feminism could be to Orthodoxy. Forward"
Addressing the practical and the theological challenges that
feminism poses to halakah, Ross offers a brilliant study, informed
not only by ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish sources, but also
by postmodernism, the history of feminism, process theology,
mysticism, and legal theory . . . She finds the key to change in
women's increasing knowledge of halakah, whose meaning women can
transform by weaving a different narrative . . . Highly
recommended. CHOICE"
Ross' conjoining of the patriarchal past with a feminist future in
the single unfolding process of divine revelation is an
unprecedented, and I would suggest brilliant, move in the world of
Jewish feminism... this book is ground-breaking in the field of
theology (Jewish, feminist and otherwise). It is beautifully
written, masterfully insightful in its analysis of earlier feminist
attempts to resolve a similar set of challenges and subtly
brilliant in the presentation of its own solutions. I simply cannot
say enough positive things about it. It is thought-provoking and
sophisticated. I have no doubt that this book will become a
standard textbook for courses on Jewish feminism. Nashim: A Journal
of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues"
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