What Am I, a Cockroach?

The painful experience of not being counted as a person for a minyan pushed Rachel Adler to apply feminist values to Jewish tradition.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "What Am I, a Cockroach?." (Viewed on September 11, 2025) <https://qa.jwa.org/media/what-am-i-cockroach>.