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A Jewish Woman's Prayer
Book Reviews
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A Prayer Book for
All Seasons By Barbara
Trainin Blank, Hadassah Magazine
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Va'ani Tefillati:
The Women’s Prayer Conference,
The United Synagogue of
Conservative Judaism
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A Shul Of Her Own By Haviva Ner-David, The Jerusalem
Report
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Lilith Magazine Review By Judy Gerstel
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Conference On Prayer Underscores Change By Francine
Klagsbrun,
The Jewish Week
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Faith that heals the suffering heart
By Simon Rocker, The Jewish Chronicle
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Rabbi Marc Wolf discusses Aliza Lavie's new book on
Women's prayer as it relates to
the spontaneous prayer of Jacob and the current recession in this week's
commentary
on Parashat Va-yishlah.
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Jew Wishes On: A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book By Jew
Wishes Blog
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Into the limelight By Shoshana Kordova, Haaretz
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Seeking Authenticity, Women Flock to Prayer Forum By
Debra Nussbaum Cohen,
The Jewish Daily Forward
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Inspiring prayers for women By Gilah Langner,
HighBeam Research
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Aliza Lavie at the NJBA Ceremony By Naomi Firestone,
Jewish Book
Council's Blog
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New Ways Of Talking To God By Elicia Brown, The
Jewish Week
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The Torah of our mothers By Judy Bolton- Fasman, The
Jewish Advocate
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Essential Jewish Books :: A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book
By Maureen Kendler,
LSJS
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What I learned from Aliza Lavie ... By Jordan
Namerow, Jewish Women's
Archive Blog.
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Prayers From The Women’s Balcony By Sandee Brawarsky,
The Jewish Week
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New prayer books revive forgotten women’s liturgy By
Ben Harris, The Wisconsin
Jewish Chronicle
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published in
Jewish Exponent and
JTA websites)
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Tefillat Nashim: Jewish Women’s Prayers throughout the
Ages By Sybil Sheridan,
NASHIM: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and
Gender Issues.
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Unexpected Gift Books By Sande Brawarsky, Jewish
Women International
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Aliza Lavie: Discovering A Legacy of Jewish Women's
Prayers By Michelle Katz,
The Jewish Press
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The Prayer of a mother in law By
Rabbi Jack Riemer
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A Prayer of One’s Own By Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder, The
Jewish Daily
Forward
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Jewish Woman's Prayer Book' author Aliza Lavie to speak
at Palm Beach Synagogue
By Michele Dargan, Palm Beach Daily News
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Praying for a Spouse By Shulamit Reinharz, 614 HBI
eZine
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Making Time for Prayer and Religious Dialogue Top New
Year's Resolution Lists,
Fayette Faith
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A woman's place By
Ben Harris, The Jerusalem Post
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On wings of prayer By Tamar Rotem, Haaretz
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'With humility, my God, I approach you'
By Prof. Avigdor Shinan, Haaretz
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A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book” edited by Aliza Lavie
(Spiegel & Grau, December)
is a new collection of prayers written by and for women over the ages.
Hebrew prayers
are translated into English, with commentary. The prayers commemorate
holidays,
lifecycle and mundane events, whether an Italian prayer for an easy
pregnancy or the
matriarchs’ prayer for the month of Elul and Rosh HaShanah. The editor
teaches at
Bar Ilan University in Israel. Sandee Brawarsky, Jewish Week Book
Critic.
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"The essence of the book ‘Tefillat Nashim’ (Women’s
Prayers Throughout the Ages)
isn't realized in the first reading, nor in a continuous reading. A
prayer that is uttered
for the first time is not really 'prayer'; it is a random prayer like
many others. Only the
element of repetition transforms it into real prayer. The power of a
prayer-book lies in
its communal acceptance into the life cycle; its power lies in the
ceremony that is
created around it, in being read aloud in public at the appropriate time
and season.
The power of the Jewish prayer book throughout the generations has arisen
from the
tension between tradition and innovation, between the fixed and the
transient, between
the Divine and the human. ‘Women's Prayers Throughout the Ages’ is
perhaps one of
the most important events in the Jewish religion in recent years, and it
is worthy of
many sequels".
Almog Behar, Haaretz.
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Impact Of Women On Jewish History
By Prof. Livia Bitton Jackson
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A woman's book of prayer becomes a bestseller
By Nechemia Meyers, Jewish Tribune
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Women and Prayer, BIU Today
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Shulamit Reinharz on Aliza Lavie´s New Book
By
Prof. Shulamit Reinharz, Kolech
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Lavie at women's prayer workshop in Brookline The
Jewish Advocate
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Women's Prayers By Menachem Mendel
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Fiction And Poetry: From Kosher Butchers To Lost Tribes
- Books Review
By Sandee Brawarsky, Jewish Week Book Critic
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Reviews of the book in the Israeli press
All Hebrew Reviews
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Journalist and literary critic
Ariana Melamed - YNET
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Poet and literary critic Almog
Behar (Haaretz) explains that the power of a prayer book
lies in the community’s acceptance of it into the cycle of life; its
power is in the
ceremony that is created around it, in the reading of it, aloud, by the
congregation, at
the appropriate seasons of the year and of life.
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Journalist Lihi Lapid was enchanted
by the stories of the women writers, learned
scholars, who found the way to express their feelings and connect with
others with the
right words for those moments that a woman understands.
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Carmel Weissman explains why many
women - including some who define themselves
as secular - have begun to pray with this book.
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Prof. Avigdor Shinan invites deeper
consideration of the book: is there any difference
between a work created by a woman for her peers and one created by a man,
meant
for women? Were these men - mostly rabbis - able to understand the depths
of a
woman’s heart and give them full, honest expression?
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Sociologist Gilad Seri Levi considers
the political ramifications of Tefilat Nashim, a
mosaic of prayers and the life stories...
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Dr. Tzvia Walden questions the absence of women’s
prayers created by other streams
of Judaism. Are there women’s prayers that are “acceptable” and others
that are “
unacceptable”?
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Prof. Yehudit Baumel enthuses: “There are few books that
one reads in a single
breath, regretting afterwards that they came to an end. It is still rarer
to read a book
with the certainty that it will find a place in your everyday life.”
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Arutz 7 Review
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A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book - Treasure Revealed - YNET
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Rabbi Yuval Cherlow calls to restore private, personal
prayer to its proper place.
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Journalist Michal Wasner finds that Tefilat Nashim
presents the prayers like works of
art, like a display of precious jewels, as empowering texts of spiritual
greatness. And,
she concludes, it is specifically the non-obligatory format that affords
the reader the
possibility of suddenly deciding, in a completely independent manner, on
the spur of
the moment, to take action.
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Prof. Admiel Cosman feels deeply the absence of the
prayers created by other modern
Israeli poets.
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Poet Hava Pinhasi grapples with the question of how a
book of prayers became
relevant to such different audiences, including religious, traditional,
and secular
readers.
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Dr. Yael Areli summarizes: “This important book has
achieved its purpose: to
reawaken the feminine voices that have been lost, forgotten and erased
from our
consciousness over the course of the generations.
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Amudim - Tefilat Nashim is a collection of
prayers written by and/or for Jewish
women from a diverse range of historical and cultural background.
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Shvoong Website: For all those women who would
like to talk to God, once in a while,
and feel that they don’t know how to begin or what to say, Dr. Aliza
Lavie has gathered
prayers written three thousand years ago along with prayers written in
the third
millennium.
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Rabbi Einat Ramon is pained by the absence of
non-Orthodox prayers and poetry.
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Yael Penini describes how the stories of women from
Jewish sources inspire her.
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