A theologian with this first name wrote on the exclusion of women from patriarchal Jewish tradition in her book Standing Again at Sinai. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give the first name of that feminist theologian, surnamed Plaskow. Jews consume dairy on Hanukkah to commemorate a woman with this first name from the Apocrypha who beheads an Assyrian general.
ANSWER: Judith [or Yehudit; accept Judith Plaskow]
[10m] The first public bat mitzvah was for a Judith born in this family. Her father penned the massive Judaism as a Civilization and founded Reconstructionist Judaism.
ANSWER: Kaplan [accept Judith Kaplan; accept Rabbi Mordecai (Menahem) Kaplan]
[10h] In her Standing Again at Sinai, Judith Plaskow discussed the problem of viewing this Kabbalistic concept as a Goddess while tradition treats it as God's subordinate bride. Lynn Gottlieb's She Who Dwells Within is titled for this concept of God's presence, a feminine entity identified with the sefirah Malkuth.
ANSWER: Shekhinah [or Shekinah; or Shechinah; or Sakina]
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