Maggie Anton
Maggie Anton is the award-winning author of historical fiction series Rashi's Daughters and Rav Hisda's Daughter. She is a Talmud scholar, with expertise in Jewish women's history.
Articles by Maggie Anton
How Do the Rabbis in the Talmud Address Rape?
With the deplorable situation in Santa Clara (the Stanford rape case), there has recently been a media focus on rape. ...
Researching Jewish History through a Woman’s Eyes
It’s strange but true that being a woman made me uniquely positioned to write my historical novels. Growing up a ...
Blessing the Shabbat Lights – A “Modern” Jewish Ritual
The quintessential image of home, holiness, and Jewish motherhood is that of a woman blessing the Shabbat candles, performing a ...
Women in Rashi’s Time: It Wasn’t the Dark Ages for Them
On July 27, the 29th of Tammuz, I will observe the 909th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shlomo Yizhaki, better known as ...
From Secular Jew to Talmud Scholar Part II: Many Ways to Study Talmud
Click here for part 1 of this series. Rabbi Benay Lappe instructed us in the traditional method of Talmud study, ...
From Secular Jew to Talmud Scholar Part I: How I Came to Study Talmud
Readers often ask: How did a girl raised in a secular socialist family in Los Angeles come to be a ...
Maggie Anton Reviews Elie Wiesel’s “Rashi”
I haven’t looked forward to a book’s release so much since the final installment of Harry Potter. Here is a ...