Drawing on interviews with Jewish women from age 18 to 80, across the USA, as well on new demographic data, scholarship, literature and media, this text explores the ways in which feminism has affected contemporary options for Jewish women striving to combine community, family and individual needs.

Just as Eastern European Jews at the turn of the century and Holocaust survivors after World War II brought a religious intensity to American Jewish communities, today feminism is providing a fresh wave of enthusiastic reinterpretation and participation in American Jewish life.