Pray Tell: A Hadassah Guide to Jewish Prayer

This book is a rich resource on Jewish prayer using traditional and contemporary perspectives. It contains insightful analyses of the meaning of prayer services with fascinating commentaries on individual prayers. Particularly relevant are a wideranging chapter on Women’s Spiritual Alternatives and another on Orthodox Women’s Private Prayers that covers traditional tehines, contemporary prayers of Orthodox women and songs of Sephardic women in Ladino. A chapter by Rochelle Furstenberg approaches Israeli poetry as prayer. The discussion on recent developments includes mention of services at Drisha in New York and Shira Chadasha in Jerusalem.