Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, is the director of spiritual education at the Academyfor Jewish Religion. She is also the director of Tel Shemesh, a website and communitycelebrating and creating Jewish earth-based traditions, and thecofounder of Kohenet: The Hebrew Priestess Training Program. She is theauthor of numerous essays, articles, and poems, and also of two books: Sistersat Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women (Jewish Publication Society, 2001) andThe Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons (Jewish PublicationSociety, 2006).