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Tova Hartman (born 1957), scholar and social entrepreneur, is the Dean of Humanities at the Kiryat Ono Academic College.
Tova Hartman (born 1957), scholar and social entrepreneur, is the Dean of Humanities at the Kiryat Ono Academic College.
Biography
She was formerly Professor of Gender Studies and Education atBar Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...
, specializing in gender and religion, and gender and psychology.
She is the author of a book on Jewish and Catholic mothers, titled ''Appropriately Subversive,'' as well as a book on the crossroads of Jewish Tradition and modern feminism, titled ''Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism'', which won the National Jewish Book Award
The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1944, is an organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature.Shira Hadasha, a congregation organized to increase women's participation and leadership within traditional Jewish prayer and
Hebrew University School of Education
* Tova Hartman and Tamar Miller, "Our Tradition, Ourselves"
''JOFA Bulletin'', Winter 2001
* Jessica Ravitz
'' Moment'', January/February 2009.
"Orthodox Group Fetes Traditional Roles"
''Forward'', May 11, 2001 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartman, Tova Living people Israeli Jews Orthodox Jewish feminists Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University 1957 births Jewish ethicists Academic staff of Ono Academic College
halakha
''Halakha'' (; he, הֲלָכָה, ), also transliterated as ''halacha'', ''halakhah'', and ''halocho'' ( ), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws which is derived from the written and Oral Torah. Halakha is based on biblical commandm ...
.
She is the daughter of Rabbi Prof. David Hartman. She was married to Moshe Halbertal, and they have three daughters.
Selected Published works
*Hartman, T., ''Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions'', Harvard University Press, 2003, *Hartman, T. and Marmon, M., "Lived Regulations, Systemic Attributions Menstrual Separation and Ritual Immersion in the Experience of Orthodox Jewish Women." ''Gender & Society'' 18:3, pp. 389–408 (2004)See also
* Feminist Jewish ethics * Hebrew University of Jerusalem *Jewish feminism
Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to make the religious, legal, and social status of Jewish women equal to that of Jewish men in Judaism. Feminist movements, with varying approaches and successes, have opened up within all major branc ...
* Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance
* Women in Judaism
The role of women in Judaism is determined by the Hebrew Bible, the Oral Law (the corpus of rabbinic literature), by custom, and by cultural factors. Although the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature mention various female role models, religio ...
References
External links
Hebrew University School of Education
* Tova Hartman and Tamar Miller, "Our Tradition, Ourselves"
''JOFA Bulletin'', Winter 2001
* Jessica Ravitz
'' Moment'', January/February 2009.
"Orthodox Group Fetes Traditional Roles"
''Forward'', May 11, 2001 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartman, Tova Living people Israeli Jews Orthodox Jewish feminists Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University 1957 births Jewish ethicists Academic staff of Ono Academic College