Life on the Fringes:
A Feminist Journey Toward Traditional Rabbinic Ordination

by Haviva Ner-David

JFL Books | Hardcover | March 2000 | ISBN 0-9664306-7-0 | $21.95 just $17.95 if you order directly from JFL Books

Part memoir, part halakhic commentary, this book charts a journey, at once solitary and engaging. Through Ner-David's eyes, we are drawn into the many facets of this Jewish-American life: a girl's modern Orthodox childhood; living -- and wrestling with -- a life of Jewish observance; the emergence of her feminist and other social justice commitments; the serious study of Jewish texts; and settling with her young family in Israel, where she is currently studying for rabbinic ordination under the auspices of an Orthodox rabbi. Writing with warmth, vision, and passion, Ner-David unwraps her often startling package of Jewish choices, and invites readers into her many worlds, even as she challenges us to examine and deepen our own allegiances and Jewish journeys.