January
2004 News:
Women's
Study Day
TO ALL WOMEN INTERESTED
IN PARTICIPATING
IN AN OPEN AND INTELLECTUALLY CHALLENGING DIALOGUE
WITH JUDAISM
Please
join us for The Fourth Annual Masorti Women’s
Study Days
Sunday, February
15, 2004 at the Bet Israel Synagogue, Netanya
Wednesday, February 18, 2004, at Eshel Avraham Synagogue,
Beersheva
Monday, February 23, 2004 at Kibbutz Hanaton, northern
Israel
Time:
3:45 –8:45 p.m.
Classes start at 5:00 p.m
Study Theme:
Miriam: Sister, Feminist and Prophetess.
Star faculty include Prof. Alice Shalvi and and
many of the women rabbis of the Schechter Institute
of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.
Most
of the lectures will be given in four languages:
Hebrew, English, Spanish & Russian.
Lectures*:
How Rabbis Looked at Women Prophets –
Professor Alice Shalvi
The Spirit of Miriam/New Ritual – Rabbi Shira
Yisrael
How To – Talmud: Miriam, Beloved of Her People
Miriam: Family Relationships & Effect on Jewish
History (in English only at Hanaton)
Miriam: Family Relationships: Hers & Ours -
Dr. Brenner
Learn New Tunes & Meaningful Prayer
If/How to Blend Ritual in Multi-Cultural Marriages
(tentative, and not in Beersheva)
Justification for Women’s Participation in
Ritual
Why & Who are the Unnamed Women in the Bible
Miriam: “Lashon Hara,” Gossip –
Is It a Crime
Why &Who: Women Writers Left out of Hebrew Literature(in
Hebrew only)
*The
list of lectures is not yet finalized and is subject
to change.
Please contact Diane at wleague@masorti.org
for a questionnaire and/or more details.
Sponsors: Women’s League Masorti Israel, Schechter
Institute of Jewish Studies, Masorti Movement
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