Judith Plaskow

merican theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian.[1] After earning her doctorate at Yale University, she taught at Manhattan College for thirty-two years before becoming a professor emerita.[2][3] She was one of the creators of the Journal for Feminist Studies in Religion and was its editor for the first ten years.[4] She also helped to create B'not Esh, a Jewish feminist group that heavily inspired her writing, and a feminist section of the American Academy of Religion, an organization of which she was president in 1998.[5] Plaskow's work has been critical in developing Jewish feminist theology. Her most significant work, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective, argued that the absence of female perspectives in Jewish history has had a negative impact on the religion and she urged Jewish feminists to reclaim their place in the Torah and in Jewish thought.