Rebecca Alpert
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rabbi Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert is Professor of Religion Emerita at Temple University, and was one of the first women rabbis. Her chief academic interests are religions and sports and sexuality in Judaism, and she says that her beliefs were transformed by a Sabbath prayer book that refers to God as 'She'.
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- Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition (1997) (38)
- Out of Left Field (2011) (38)
- Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation (2001) (18)
- Religion and Sports: An Introduction and Case Studies (2015) (9)
- Exploring Judaism : A Reconstructionist Approach (1985) (8)
- Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball (2011) (5)
- Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s (2019) (5)
- The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives (review) (2007) (4)
- Whose Torah?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism (2008) (4)
- Voices Of The Religious Left: A Contemporary Sourcebook (2000) (4)
- Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2014) (3)
- Jackie Robinson, Jewish Icon (2009) (3)
- The Macho-Mensch: Modeling American Jewish Masculinity and the Heroes of Baseball (2015) (2)
- Jewish Feminist Justice Work: Focus on Israel/Palestine (2013) (2)
- Religious Liberty, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Case of Reconstructionist Judaism (2012) (1)
- Jews and Sex (review) (2010) (1)
- What Is a Jew? The Meaning of Genetic Disease for Jewish Identity (2007) (1)
- The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003 (review) (2006) (1)
- Solidarity with Palestinian Activists (2016) (1)
- Social Justice, Sport and Judaism: A Position Statement (2018) (1)
- Feminism and Modern Jewish Theological Method (review) (2012) (1)
- Thelma “Tiby” Eisen: An Oral History (2014) (1)
- A Prophetic Voice for Truth (2007) (1)
- Case 7. American Jews and the Boycott of the 1936 Berlin Olympics (2015) (1)
- Faith based on what? A roundtable discussion (2002) (1)
- The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life (review) (2006) (0)
- Baseball Since 1920 (2014) (0)
- Case 6. Jewish Umpires and Baseball Chapel (2015) (0)
- Case 5. Juju: Witchcraft and African Football (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews: City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972, by Mark Stein. (2000) (0)
- Enter Jackie Robinson (2011) (0)
- World War II and the Advancement of Black Baseball (2011) (0)
- “Religion in Philadelphia” for General Education (2017) (0)
- Destined to be an American, not an Israeli, Jew (2008) (0)
- “Location, Location, Location: Toward a Theology of Prepositions” (2020) (0)
- On Seams and Seamlessness (2012) (0)
- Case 3. Zen and Archery in Japan (2015) (0)
- Pioneers in the Pulpit (2001) (0)
- A Note to Instructors on How to Use This Text (2015) (0)
- Looking at the Sexual Abuse Crisis (2008) (0)
- Case 11. Caroline Pla and CYO Football: Should Girls Be Allowed to Compete with Boys? (2015) (0)
- Case 2. Oscar Pistorius and What It Means to Be Human (2015) (0)
- The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today. By Jack Wertheimer (2019) (0)
- Book review (2006) (0)
- Sport and Religion: The State of the Field (2023) (0)
- Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball (2013) (0)
- Case 12. Should the Roman Catholic Church Condemn Bullfighting in Spain (2015) (0)
- Thelma "Tiby" Eisen (2014) (0)
- Correction to: Who Is the Prophet? Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey, and the Integration of Baseball (2019) (0)
- Exploring Judaism and Finding Reconstructionism (2005) (0)
- Case 1. Friday Night Lights: High School Football as Religion in Odessa, Texas (2015) (0)
- Case 13. The Florida State University Seminoles’ Osceola and Renegade: Mascots or Symbols? (2015) (0)
- Social Justice, Sport, and Judaism (2020) (0)
- The Making of Gay and Lesbian Rabbis in Reconstructionist Judaism, 1979–1992 (2018) (0)
- Contributors to this issue (1974) (0)
- Case 9. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and the National Anthem Ritual in the NBA (2015) (0)
- Case 8. The Belleville Grays and Playing Sports on the Sabbath (2015) (0)
- The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century (2000) (0)
- Jewish tradition and the right to health care. (1984) (0)
- Babe Ruth: Religious Icon (2019) (0)
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE ISLAMIC TRADITION. By Ayesha S. Chaudhry. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013. Oxford Islamic Legal Studies Series. x + 288 pp. $52.50 cloth. (2015) (0)
- For Irving and Avi, but Mostly for Me (2009) (0)
- Case 14. Jack Taylor’s 138 Points: Is “Running Up the Score” Christian? (2015) (0)
- Case 4. O God of Players: Prayer and Women’s Basketball at a Catholic College (2015) (0)
- 3. Translating Rabbinic Texts on the Curse of Ham: What We Learn from Charles Copher and His Critics (2013) (0)
- Case 10. Judo and Hijab at the Olympics (2015) (0)
- The Conflict over Baseball Comedy (2011) (0)
- The Jewish Contribution to Ending Jim Crow Baseball (2011) (0)
- Baseball Was America (2011) (0)
- The Business of Black Baseball (2011) (0)
- NiSh'ma: Apikorus (2000) (0)
- The Guide from A to Z (2014) (0)
- What Does Genuine Transformation Look Like? Emphasizing the “E” in DEI (2022) (0)
- Review: Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives (2003) (0)
- A Guide for Women in Religion, Revised Edition (2014) (0)
- Traditions and Transformations (1998) (0)
- Case 15. Conclusion: What Would Phil Jackson Do? (2015) (0)
- Editors’ Introduction to the Revised Edition (2014) (0)
- Introduction: Why Study Religion and Sports, Anyway? (2015) (0)
- Who Is the Prophet? Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey, and the Integration of Baseball (2018) (0)
- Diamond Quotes (2014) (0)
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