![]() ![]() Rebecca Alpert: The question of the common themes of my work has always bedeviled me. Is there a thread of connection between them for you? And yet, they are all topics about which you have written. Susan Henking: If I say Judaism, baseball, lesbians-to lots of people, these seem like very disparate topics. She is also the author of books on Reconstructionist and progressive Judaism, on the place of lesbians within Judaism, and, most recently, on Jews in black baseball. Shaped by her own teachers, including Mordecai Kaplan, who founded Reconstructionist Judaism, Alpert is currently a faculty member in religious studies at Temple University. And yet, that only happens when one forgets: forgets the many rabbis and ministers who were core to the Civil Rights movement, forgets the role of ministers and rabbis (again) in the early LGBT movement, forgets that religion is more than the right.Īmong the first generation of women rabbis as well as the first generation of lesbian rabbis is Rebecca Alpert. For many years, it has seemed that religion, as it appears in the public square, is a conservative or even a right-wing affair. ![]()
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