The Reclaiming community of witches was founded in 1979 in San Francisco by the Jewish author Starhawk. Their name refers to the spirituality re-claimed from ancient Paganism and goddess worship in order to heal estrangement from Biblical religion. Believing that Western culture suffers from severe social and spiritual disease because its founding religions deny such major aspects of the nature of reality as divine immanence and ecological/magical interdependence. From this stance, feminist witches have created the compassionate alternative known as Wicca.

The Reclaiming community of witches was founded in 1979 in San Francisco by the Jewish author Starhawk. Their name refers to the spirituality re-claimed from ancient Paganism and goddess worship in order to heal estrangement from Biblical religion. Believing that Western culture suffers from severe social and spiritual disease because its founding religions deny such major aspects of the nature of reality as divine immanence and ecological/magical interdependence. From this stance, feminist witches have created the compassionate alternative known as Wicca.

The dominant theme of post-Holocaust Jewish theology has been that of the temporary hiddenness of God, interpreted either as a divine mystery or, more commonly, as God's deferral to human freedom. But traditional Judaic obligations of female presence, together with the traditional image of the Shekhinah as a figure of God's 'femaleness' accompanying Israel into exile, seem to contradict such theologies of absence. The Female Face of God in Auschwitz, the first full-length feminist theology of the Holocaust, argues that the patriarchal bias of post-Holocaust theology becomes fully...

The dominant theme of post-Holocaust Jewish theology has been that of the temporary hiddenness of God, interpreted either as a divine mystery or, more commonly, as God's deferral to human freedom. But traditional Judaic obligations of female presence, together with the traditional image of the Shekhinah as a figure of God's 'femaleness' accompanying Israel into exile, seem to contradict such theologies of absence. The Female Face of God in Auschwitz, the first full-length feminist theology of the Holocaust, argues that the patriarchal bias of post-Holocaust theology becomes fully...