Women's spiritual expression has gone beyond seeking equality with men to embrace female-specific forms and contexts. Today, women continue to create ceremonies and liturgies to infuse the events of their lives—personal and communal, celebration and tragedy—with spirituality. Pictured here is a "Healing Service" published by Central Synagogue, a Reform congregation in New York City.

Institution: Eleanor Leff Jewish Women’s Resource Center (JWRC) of the National Council of Jewish Women, New York Section