Cara Rock-Singer, at The Blogs

Dec 12, 2013, 4:07 PM

Jewish lives and participation cannot simply be counted, and solutions to problems in the Jewish community are not necessarily quantifiable. Quantitative sociological work, which charts changing demographics or Jewish literacy, has provided us with tools to keep people engaged...

Nov 6, 2013, 10:59 PM

To Be a Young Feminist on Women of the Wall’s 25th Anniversary

Ve’higiy’anu laz’man hazeh. As hundreds of women sang Shehecheyanu towards the end of Monday’s Rosh Hodesh service, the joy and the relief of having reached this occasion was palpable. For many of the participants, it has been 25 hard...

Oct 24, 2013, 10:26 AM

What Makes a Community of Valor?

As I sit here to write, I hear two male students learning together: a more advanced student is teaching a relative novice, and they are practicing singing ayshet chayil. Surrounded by the sounds of patriarchy—even from the lips of...

Sep 29, 2013, 12:27 PM

Ushpizot

In the middle of Sukkot, eight Jerusalem-based women’s organizations gathered to celebrate a feminist re-interpretation of the practice of ushpizin, meaning guests in Aramaic. The ritual, originally based in the Zohar, involves the invitation of seven Biblical men as...

About Me

Cara Rock-Singer is a PhD Candidate in the Religion Department at Columbia University in New York City. She is spending the year in Jerusalem doing dissertation research and studying at The Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.