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Gender & the Rabbinate: How has the ordination of women changed the role of the rabbi?
Breakout Session
Facilitator: Rabbi Ellen Wolintz-Fields
Speakers: Rabbi Craig Scheff & Rabbi Paula Mack Drill
Originally recorded on April 29,...
Spirals within Spirals: Understanding Where Gender and Religion Might Go Next in a Digital World
Limmud
Rabbi Karen Reiss Medwed
Originally recorded on April 29,...
Mutuality in Jewish Marriage - Possible in Jewish Law?
Limmud
Rabbi Gail Labovitz
Originally recorded on April 29,...
Kaddish and Community: Reflecting on Gendered Perspectives
Limmud
Dr. Shuly Schwartz
Originally recorded on April 28,...
Finding God in Unlikely Places: Six Poems No Rabbi Should Be Without
Limmud
Dr. Anne Lerner
Originally recorded on April 28,...
Gender Bending in 2 Kings 4: How a Great Woman Instructs a Man of God
Limmud
Rabbi Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky
Originally recorded on April 28,...
When One Rabbi Visits Another the Result is Halakhic Change: A Close Reading of Five Very Short Talmudic Anecdotes
Limmud
Rabbi Dr. Judith Hauptman
Originally recorded on April 28,...
A Prayer for the People of Nepal
By Rabbi Naomi Levy
ונבנתה עיר על-תילה
"And the city shall be rebuilt on its ruins" (Jeremiah 30)
ועל אנשי השרון היה אומר: יהי רצון מלפניך יי אלהינו ואלהי אבותינו שלא יעשו בתיהם קבריהם
On Yom Kippur the Kohen Gadol...