The Attraction and Danger of Foreign Women in the Bible

Facilitated by Rabbi Enid Lader
In person

Foreign women interested the biblical authors for more than one reason. At different times, they represented a source of attraction but also of danger — a threat to the formation of a coherent and homogeneous nation…
This basically ambivalent attitude towards foreign  women is evident in that some of the most pious and ideally portrayed women in the Bible are of alien origin, but at the same time, some of the most negative and dangerous also come from foreign lands. Based on an article by David Fishelov, we will examine these two  extremes, as well as some interesting mixtures.

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Enid Lader is the Rabbi Emerita at Beth Israel – The West Temple in Cleveland, Ohio.
In retirement, she is  actively engaged with interfaith programming and, along with her husband Harry, actively engaged in babysitting their local grandchildren.