Tamar Ross

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Jewish feminism
Writers
Rachel Adler Blu Greenberg Tova Hartman Paula Hyman Judith Hauptman Susannah Heschel Judith Plaskow Tamar Ross Mendel Shapiro Daniel Sperber Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
Groups
JOFA Shira Hadasha
Issues
Agunah Jewish view of marriage Minyan Mitzvah Partnership minyan Role of women in Judaism
Category
Judaism and women

Tamar Ross is a professor of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. She has scholarly expertise in the thought of Abraham Isaac Kook, the modern Musar movement and the ideology of Mitnaggedism, and Judaism and gender. She is the author of books and articles on Jewish ethics and theology, contemporary issues in traditional Jewish thought, philosophy of halakha, and Orthodox Jewish feminism.

[edit] See also

• Jewish feminism
• Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
• Role of women in Judaism

[edit] External links

• Professor Ross Page at Hebrew University Philosophy Department Faculty

[edit] References

Ross, T. Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism. Brandeis University Press, 2004. ISBN 1-58465-390-6

Ross, T. "Orthodoxy, Women, and Halakhic Change" (Hebrew), in The Quest for Halakha: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Jewish Law, edited by Amichai Berholz. Yediot Aharonot/Bet Morasha, 2003, pp. 387-438.

Ross, T. “Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism”, in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, edited by Jonathan Frankel, Eli Lederhendler, Peter Y. Medding and Ezra Mendelsohn. Institute of Contemporary Jewry and Oxford University Press, 2000, pp, 3-38

Ross, T. "The Cognitive Value of Religious Truth Claims: Rabbi A.I. Kook and Postmodernism", in Hazon Nahum: Jubilee Volume in Honor of Norman Lamm, December 1997, pp. 479-527.