Editing Siddur (section)

==Feminist siddurim==
* ''Siddur Nashim: a Sabbath prayerbook for women'' by Naomi Janowitz and Margaret Moers Wenig; 1976. 
* ''Siddur Birkat Shalom'' by the Havurat Shalom Siddur Project; [[Havurat Shalom]], 1991.

''[[Siddur Nashim]]'', by [[Margaret Wenig]] and Naomi Janowitz in 1976, was the first Jewish prayer book to refer to God using female pronouns and imagery.<ref name="Weber2019">{{cite book|author=Shannon Weber|title=Feminism in Minutes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=buJ6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA286|date=4 June 2019|publisher=Quercus|isbn=978-1-63506-142-0|pages=286–}}</ref>

Reconstructionist Rabbi [[Rebecca Alpert]] (''Reform Judaism'', Winter 1991) commented:
{{blockquote|The experience of praying with ''Siddur Nashim''... transformed my relationship with God. For the first time, I understood what it meant to be made in God's image. To think of God as a woman like myself, to see Her as both powerful and nurturing, to see Her imaged with a woman's body, with womb, with breasts – this was an experience of ultimate significance. Was this the relationship that men have had with God for all these millennia? How wonderful to gain access to those feelings and perceptions.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}}}

Following in the footsteps of feminist prayerbooks, [[Religious liberalism|liberal]] prayerbooks tend increasingly to avoid male-specific words and pronouns, seeking that all references to God in translations be made in gender-neutral language. For example, the [[Liberal Judaism (UK)|UK Liberal movement]]'s ''Siddur Lev Chadash'' (1995) does so, as does the [[Reform Judaism (UK)|UK Reform Movement]]'s ''Forms of Prayer'' (2008).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thejc.com/judaism/features/the-slimline-siddur-with-a-touch-of-bob-dylan-1.3719 |title=The slimline siddur with a touch of Bob Dylan |first=Rabbi Dr Andrew |last=Goldstein |date=July 4, 2008 |work=The Jewish Chronicle |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bwpjc.org/slc.htm |title=Siddur Lev Chadash |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705015023/http://www.bwpjc.org/slc.htm |archive-date=July 5, 2008 |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref> In [[Mishkan T'filah]], the American Reform Jewish prayer book released in 2007, references to God as "He" have been removed, and whenever Jewish patriarchs are named (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), so also are the matriarchs (Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/03/us/03prayerbook.html?_r=1 |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Laurie |last=Goodstein |title=In New Prayer Book, Signs of Broad Change |date=September 3, 2007 |access-date=November 20, 2018}}</ref>