Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women - Paperbackby Debra Renee Kaufman (Author) Debra Kaufman writes about ba'alot teshuva women who have returned to Orthodox Judaism, a form of Judaism often assumed to be oppressive to women. She addresses many of the most challenging issues of family, feminism, and gender. Why, she asks, have these women chosen an Orthodox lifestyle? What attracts young, relatively affluent, well educated, and highly assimilated women to the most traditional, right wing,