S. Tamar Kamionkowski

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Linda Troeller

Faith and Practice

One Jewish Feminist’s Lifelong Companionship with a Misogynist

It was 1999 and I was a visiting scholar at a synagogue in Florida teaching a workshop on Ezekiel. Midstream, I found myself saying words I had not anticipated saying to these suburban mainstream Jews: “Ezekiel 16, verse 17 is referring to a strap-on dildo and Ezekiel is referencing the emasculation of God by the collective body of Israel who is assuming the phallic, penetrative role in the divine-human relationship.” Gulp.