E-grāmata: Women's Haftarah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot & Special Shabbatot

Index by Author Acknowledgments Introduction Rabbinic Commentators and
Midrashic Collections Noted in This Anthology Bereshit / Genesis Haftarat
Bereshit: Isaiah 42:543:10 Rabbi Amy Joy Small Haftarat Noach: Isaiah
54:155:5 Rabbi Jill Hammer Haftarat Lech Lecha: Isaiah 40:2741:16 Rabbi Sue
Levi Elwell Haftarat Vayera: II Kings 4:137 Rabbi Paula Jayne Winnig.
Haftarat Chaye Sarah: I Kings 1:131 Rabbi Beth Janus. Haftarat Toldot:
Malachi 1:12:7 Rabbi Carol E. Stein Haftarat Vayeitze: Hosea 12:1314:10
Rabbi Kathy Cohen Haftarat Vayishlach: Hosea 11:712:12 Rabbi Nina Beth
Cardin Haftarat Vayashev: Amos 2:63:8 Rabbi Hara E. Person Haftarat Miketz:
I Kings 3:154:1 Rabbi Zoe Klein Haftarat Vayigash: Ezekiel 37:1528 Rabbi
Marsha J. Pik-Nathan Haftarat Vayechi: I Kings 2:112 Rabbi Amber Powers
Shmot / Exodus Haftarat Shmot: Isaiah 27:628:13; 29:2223 Rabbi Sharon
Brous. Haftarat Va-era: Ezekiel 28:2529:21 Rabbi Andrea Carol Steinberger.
Haftarat Bo: Jeremiah 46:1328 Rabbi Denise L. Eger Haftarat Beshalach:
Judges 4:45:31 Rabbi Deborah J. Schloss. Haftarat Yitro: Isaiah 6:17:6;
9:56 Rabbi Shira Stern Haftarat Mishpatim: Jeremiah 34:822; 33:2526 Rabbi
Lori Cohen. Haftarat Terumah: I Kings 5:266:13 Rabbi Elisa Koppel Haftarat
Tetzaveh: Ezekiel 43:1027 Rabbi Alison B. Kobey Haftarat Ki Tissa: I Kings
18:139 Rabbi Valerie Lieber Haftarat Vayakhel: I Kings 7:4050 Rabbi
Danielle Leshaw Haftarat Pikudei: I Kings 7:518:21 Rabbi Y. L. bat Joseph
Vayikra / Leviticus Haftarat Vayikra: Isaiah 43:2144:23 Rabbi Tina Grimberg.
Haftarat Tzav: Jeremiah 7:218:3; 9:2223 Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman Haftarat
Shimini: II Samuel 6:17:17 Rabbi Julie Wolkoff Haftarat Tazri'a: II Kings
4:425:19 Rabbi Mary Lande Zamore Haftarat Metzorah: II Kings 7:320 Rabbi
Rochelle Robins Haftarat Acharei Mot: Ezekiel 22:119 Rabbi Nina H. Mandel
Haftarat Kedoshim: Amos 9:715 Rabbi Rona Shapiro Haftarat Emor: Ezekiel
44:1531 Rabbi Rachel Esserman. Haftarat Behar: Jeremiah 32:627 Rabbi Nancy
Wechsler-Azen Haftarat Bechukotai: Jeremiah 16:1917:14 Rabbi Hanna Gracia
Yerushalmi. Bamidbar / Numbers Haftarat Bamidbar: Hosea 2:122 Rabbi Rachel
Leila Miller Haftarat Naso: Judges 13:225 Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams Haftarat
Behalotecha: Zechariah 2:144:7 Rabbi Margot Stein Haftarat Shelach Lecha:
Joshua 2:124 Rabbi Pamela Wax Haftarat Korach: I Samuel 11:1412:22 Rabbi
Barbara Borts Haftarat Chukkat: Judges 11:133 Rabbi Vicki Lieberman Haftarat
Balak: Micah 5:66:8 Rabbi Jane Kanarek. Haftarat Pinchas: I Kings
18:4619:21 Rabbi Susan P. Fendrick Haftarat Mattot: Jeremiah 1:12:3 Rabbi
Rachel R. Bovitz. Haftarat Maasei: Jeremiah 2:428; 3:4 Rabbi Jennifer Elkin
Gorman. Devarim / Deuteronomy Haftarat Devarim: Isaiah 1:127 Rabbi Analia
Bortz Haftarat Vaetchanan: Isaiah 40:126 Rabbi Sheryl Nosan-Blank Haftarat
Ekev: Isaiah 49:1451:3 Rabbi Lynne A. Kern Haftarat Reeh: Isaiah 54:1155:5
Rabbi Joanne Yocheved Heiligman. Haftarat Shoftim: Isaiah 51:1252:12 Rabbi
Cindy Enger Haftarat Ki Tetze: Isaiah 54:110 Rabbi Vivian Mayer Haftarat Ki
Tavo: Isaiah 60:122 Rabbi Shoshana Dworsky.. Haftarat Nitzavim: Isaiah
61:1063:9 Rabbi Laura Geller Haftarat Vayelech: Isaiah 55:656:8 Rabbi Susan
Gulack Haftarat Haazinu: II Samuel 22:151 Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein
Haftarat Vzot Habrachah: Joshua 1:118 Rabbi Nancy Rita Myers Special
Shabbatot Haftarat Shabbat Rosh Chodesh: Isaiah 66:124 Rabbi Ilene Schneider
Haftarat Shabbat Shekalim: II Kings 12:116 Rabbi Stacia Deutsch Haftarat
Shabbat Zachor: I Samuel 15:134 Rabbi Karen Soria Haftarat Shabbat Parah:
Ezekiel 36:1638 Rabbi Mira Wasserman. Haftarat Shabbat HaChodesh: Ezekiel
45:1646:18 Rabbi Helaine Ettinger Haftarat Shabbat HaGadol: Malachi 3:424
Rabbi Michelle Missaghieh. Haftarot for Days of Awe Haftarah for the First
Day of Rosh Hashanah: I Samuel 1:12:10 Rabbi Serena Raziel Eisenberg
Haftarah for the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah: Jeremiah 31:120 Rabbi Linda
Bertenthal. Haftarah for Shabbat Shuva: Hosea 14:210; Joel 2:1527; Michah
7:1820 Rabbi Jessica Locketz . Haftarah for Yom Kippur Morning: Isaiah
57:1459:4 Rabbi Ilana Berenbaum Grinblat. Haftarah for Yom Kippur Afternoon:
The Book of Jonah Rabbi Myriam Klotz Holiday Haftarot Haftarah for the First
Day of Sukkot: Zechariah 14:121 Rabbi Chana Thompson Shor . Haftarah for
Shabbat Chanukah: Zechariah 2:144:7 Rabbi Sharyn H. Henry. Haftarah for the
First Day of Pesach: Joshua 3:57; 5:26:1; 6:27 Rabbi Linda Joseph Haftarah
for the First Day of Shavuot: Ezekiel 1:128, 3:12 Rabbi Shaina Bacharach.
Five Megillot Shir HaShirim: The Song of Songs Rabbi Rachel Sabath-Beit
Halachmi. Megillat Ruth: The Book of Ruth Rabbi Barbara Rosman Penzner..
Eicha: The Book of Lamentations Rabbi Melinda Panken.. Kohelet: Ecclesiastes
Rabbi Laura M. Rappaport . Megillat Esther: The Book of Esther Rabbi Karen L.
Fox. . Special Additional Selections Bathsheba: II Samuel 11 Rabbi Jessica
Spitalnic Brockman. Michal: I Samuel 18:1729; I Samuel 25:44; II Samuel
3:13; II Samuel 6:2023 Rabbi Beth L. Schwartz. The Prophetess Huldah: II
Kings 22; II Chronicles 34 Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar. Judith and the Story of
Chanukah Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand . Delilah: Judges 16:431 Rabbi Debra
Orenstein. The Witch of Endor: I Samuel 28:328 Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael
Jerusalem as Woman in the Book of Ezekiel Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses and
Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield The Woman of Valor: Proverbs 31:1031 Rabbi Wendy
Spears Psalm 23 Rabbi Devorah Jacobson Notes Glossary Bibliography and
Suggested Further Reading About the Contributors

Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, one of the leading rabbis of a new generation, is director of Kolel: The Adult Center for Liberal Jewish Learning, a full-time progressive adult Jewish learning center. Goldstein lectures frequently throughout North America. She is also editor of The Women's Torah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions; and The Women's Haftarah Commentary: New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot and Special Shabbatot; and author of the award-winning New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future and ReVisions: Seeing Torah through a Feminist Lens (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Elyse Goldstein is available to speak on the following topics:





Women and Judaism Reform Judaism Jewish Parenting General Judaica

Rabbi Sharon Brous is the founding rabbi of IKAR (www.ikar-la.org), a spiritual community dedicated to reanimating Jewish life through soulful religious practice that is rooted in a deep commitment to social justice. She has been noted as one of the leading rabbis in the country in Newsweek/Daily Beast and has been listed among the Forward's fifty most influential American Jews numerous times. She serves on the faculty of the Wexner Heritage Program, the Shalom Hartman Institute and Reboot, and sits on the board of Rabbis for Human Rights.

Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand received her rabbinic ordination in 1993 at The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She has served as chief executive of the United Kingdom Movement for Reform Judaism and prior to that was vice president of the Wexner Heritage Foundation in New York. Currently she is director of JHub, an operating program of the London-based Pears Foundation. She contributed to All These VowsKol Nidre, May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in JudaismYizkor, and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in JudaismAshamnu and Al Chet (both Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Laura Geller is senior rabbi of Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills. She was twice named one of Newsweek's 50 Most Influential Rabbis in America and was featured in the PBS documentary Jewish Americans. She has contributed to many books and journals, and was on the editorial board of The Torah: A Womens Commentary.

Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, is the director of spiritual education at the Academy for Jewish Religion. She is also the director of Tel Shemesh, a website and community celebrating and creating Jewish earth-based traditions, and the cofounder of Kohenet: The Hebrew Priestess Training Program. She is the author of numerous essays, articles, and poems, and also of two books: Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women (Jewish Publication Society, 2001) and The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons (Jewish Publication Society, 2006).

Rabbi Karyn D. Kedar teaches matters of the spirit to groups throughout the U.S. She is senior rabbi at Congregation B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim in the Chicago area, and the inspiring author of The Bridge to Forgiveness: Stories and Prayers for Finding God and Restoring Wholeness; Our Dance with God: Finding Prayer, Perspective and Meaning in the Stories of Our Lives; and God Whispers: Stories of the Soul, Lessons of the Heart and contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in JudaismYizkor; Who by Fire, Who by WaterUn'taneh Tokef; and All These VowsKol Nidre (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Debra Orenstein is an acclaimed teacher, speaker and scholar-in-residence. Before repatriating back to New Jersey in 2010 to become spiritual leader of Congregation B'nai Israel in Emerson, she spent twenty years as an instructor at the American Jewish University and a pulpit rabbi in Los Angeles. Rabbi Orenstein is the author and editor of five books, including Lifecycles 1: Jewish Women on Life Passages and Personal Milestones and Lifecycles 2: Jewish Women on Biblical Themes in Contemporary Life (Jewish Lights). A seventh generation rabbi, she is also an alumna of the first entering class to include women at The Jewish Theological Seminary. For downloadable teachings and scholar-in-residence information, please visit www.RabbiDebra.com.

Rabbi Debra Orenstein is available to speak on the following topics:





Finding (More) Meaning in Jewish Ritual and Practice Unfolding Adventures in Lifecycle, Spirituality and Gender Reading the Bible with New Eyes: Feminist Interpretation Ways in to Jewish Spirituality Raising Spiritually Fulfilled Children: Generation Mentsch

Rabbi Dr. Shira Stern, MHL, DMin, BCJC, is a past president of and certified through the National Association of Jewish Chaplains and currently chairs the Ethics Committee. She has served on the CCAR Board of Trustees as the vice president for member services. She currently has a private pastoral counseling practice in Marlboro, New Jersey, and serves Temple Rodeph Torah of Marlboro, New Jersey, as its educator. Previously, she was the director of community chaplaincy of Middlesex County, New Jersey, and director of the Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care, part of the HealthCare Chaplaincy, providing programs for rabbinic and cantorial students, chaplains, and clergy in the field. She was trained by the Red Cross to serve on the SAIR teamSpiritual Air 450 The Infrastructure of Spiritual / Pastoral Care Incident Response Team (now the Critical Incident Response Team) and worked for four months at the Liberty State Park Family Assistance Center in the aftermath of 9/11. Her selected works include "Visions of an Alternative Rabbinate," CCAR Journal, and Healing Muses: Music as Spiritual Therapy, Jewish Relational Care A to Z.

Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell is the director of the Pennsylvania Council of the Union for Reform Judaism.

Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams, PhD, an award-winning Jewish educator, is widely recognized for making the study of Judaism and its sacred texts accessible and relevant to our everyday lives. She is the founder and director of Maqom: A School for Adult Talmud Study (www.maqom.com) and a recipient of the Covenant Award for outstanding performance in the field of Jewish education. She teaches through the ALEPH rabbinic program and is author of Learn Talmud and Talmud for Beginners, among other books about Talmud and prayer. She is a popular speaker on the topics of Jewish learning and sacred literature.