An atheist-feminist siddur? Yep.

A professor at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles has composed an atheist-feminist siddur - seriously. The Jewish Daily Forward chronicles his creative, spiritual and translational process in a great feature story this week.

Tzemah Yoreh is a bible scholar and former IDF soldier who grew up in Toronto and Israel with Talmud scholars for parents. The siddur, tentatively titled "Liturgical Experiments: A Siddur for the Skeptical" is only available in Hebrew thus far. Yoreh intends to translate the siddur into English soon, at which point it will be the first siddur of its kind.

My favorite quote from the article: "If you define [prayer] as communication between humans and a deity, I think that’s a very narrow conception. I think prayer is communal and private expression of hopes, fears, an appreciation of aesthetic beauty, good attributes. But that has nothing to do with God.”

Read the story here, and check Yoreh's personal Web site here.

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