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September 6, 2019
What We Talk About When We Talk About Biblical Criticism
Higher criticism of the Bible is one of the major theoretical issues dividing today's Jewish community. Many progressive Jews triumph... more
Rabbi Daniel Reifman

Rabbi Daniel Reifman

Years of Experience
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Daniel Reifman has taught Talmud and halakhah at Drisha for close to 20 years.  He holds a PhD in hermeneutics from Bar Ilan University and received his rabbinic ordination and an MA in Tanakh from Yeshiva University. During the year, he teaches at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and at the Institute for Advanced Torah Studies at Bar Ilan.

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June 2, 2016
Is There Such a Thing as Written Torah?
A lecture and discussion with Benjamin Sommer about his book Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition (Finalist,... more
Benjamin Sommer

Benjamin Sommer

Years of Experience
3 Lectures

Benjamin Sommer is a Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at JTS. He is the author of The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel and A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66. He has a PhD in Bible from the University of Chicago, an MA in Near East and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University.

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October 29, 2015
Brother Rival / Sister Enemy: Literary and Kabbalistic Readings of Intimate Antagonism in the Bible
The Bible is filled with tales of enmity between intimates, rivals who are literal or figurative twins. We will look... more
Dr. Nathaniel Berman

Dr. Nathaniel Berman

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Nathaniel Berman holds the Rahel Varnhagen Chair at Brown University, where he teaches in the Religious Studies Department. Nathaniel’s writing and teaching span a number of disciplines. As a legal historian, his work has focused on the modern construction of the “nation” and “religion” in tandem with the “international.” He is the author of, among many other publications, Passion and Ambivalence: Nationalism, Colonialism, and International Law (Brill 2011). In Jewish Studies, his work has focused on classical kabbalah, particularly the Zohar. He has taught widely in this field in the New York area, as well as at Brown. His book, Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar: The “Other Side” of Kabbalah, will be published this year by Brill. Nathaniel holds a J.D. from Harvard and a PhD in Jewish Studies from University College London.

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Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

Years of Experience
365 Lectures

David Silber is the founder and dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education in New York and Israel. Rabbi Silber received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He is a recipient of the Covenant Award, for excellence in innovative Jewish education, and is the author of A Passover Haggadah: Go Forth and Learn (Jewish Publication Society 2011), For Such a Time as This: Biblical Reflections in the Book of Esther (Koren Publishers 2017), and Malkhut Adam: Iyunim Bsefer Shmuel (Maggid 2021). He is also a nationally acclaimed lecturer on the Bible. Rabbi Silber is married to Dr. Devora Steinmetz. They have eight children and live in New York City.

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July 1, 2015
Commentary and Controversy: The Boundaries of Biblical Interpretation
In this shiur we'll discuss recent Israeli controversies about the limits of legitimate biblical interpretation, and study selected biblical texts... more
Channa Lockshin Bob

Channa Lockshin Bob

Years of Experience
4 Lectures

Channa Lockshin Bob is the CEO of Drisha. Her background includes leadership roles in schools and nonprofits, including principal of Edu-Together, an online school, member of the leadership team of Yachad, a large mixed secular-religious school in Israel, and head of organizational assessment and program evaluation for TALI, an educational nonprofit.

She began her career in the classroom and has over twenty years of experience teaching Talmud and other Jewish texts. Her experience across educational leadership, program development, and strategic planning will help guide Drisha as it builds on its strengths and enters its next chapter.

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June 17, 2015
Dancing with God and Man: The Life and Leadership of Moshe Rabbeinu
Moshe, as presented in the Torah, is an enigmatic figure. He sometimes seems so sensitive to the needs of the... more
Zvi Grumet

Zvi Grumet

Years of Experience
3 Lectures

Zvi Grumet is the Associate Educational Director of The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education at Bar Ilan University.  He  teaches at Machon Pardes and coordinates the Tanakh Department at Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi, both in Jerusalem. He is an alumnus of Yeshivat Shalvim (Israel), has a BA from Brooklyn College and graduate degrees in Jewish Education from the David J. Azrieli Graduate School.  He has rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and serves on the Rabbinic Advisory Board of many communal organizations.

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March 17, 2014
The Contribution of Non-Jewish Biblical Scholarship to Jewish Biblical Scholarship
An exploration of the ways in which Jewish practices have affected, and have been affected by, Judaism's surrounding cultures.... more
Jeffrey Tigay

Jeffrey Tigay

Years of Experience
1 Lectures

Jeffrey Tigay is Emeritus A.M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a BA in Ancient History from Columbia, Master of Hebrew Literature and Rabbinical Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a PhD in Comparative Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies from Yale.

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November 18, 2013
The Bible’s Earliest Interpreters Philo and Qumran
How was the Torah understood by Jews of the Second Temple Period? What do the surviving texts of the period... more
David Flatto

David Flatto

Years of Experience
7 Lectures

David Flatto is an assistant professor of law, religion, and history at Penn State Law. He has a PhD in Jewish Studies from Harvard University and a JD from Columbia Law School, and received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He has written and lectured on Maimonides, Jewish legal philosophy, and the critical and historical study of rabbinics.

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March 27, 2012
Parshanut Personalities: Parashat HaShavuaThrough the Eyes of Midrash
Join us for an innovative approach to text study that provides the unique opportunity to look at Parashat HaShavua through... more
Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz

Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz

Years of Experience
8 Lectures

Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz is the chair of the Bible department at the SAR High School, and is the founding director of Makom B’Siach at SAR, an immersive adult education program for parents. She has taught Bible for the Wexner Heritage program, and she is also an adjunct faculty member of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, where she teaches the Pedagogy of Tanakh. She is a graduate of the Drisha Institute’s Scholars Circle, and completed her PhD in Midrash at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010 as a Wexner Graduate fellow. Dr. Jacobowitz is currently at work on a parsha book, geared towards parents reading to young children. She lives in Teaneck, NJ with her husband, Prof. Ronnie Perelis, and their four children.

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January 29, 2012
Parshanut Personalities: Parashat HaShavua through the Eyes of Commentaries- Rashbam
Come explore the world of parshanut as it is applied to the weekly Torah portion. Each class will focus on... more
Dr. Aaron Koller

Dr. Aaron Koller

Years of Experience
34 Lectures

Aaron Koller is associate professor of Near Eastern and Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, where he is chair of the Robert M. Beren Department of Jewish Studies, and also Core Faculty and Coordinator of Adult Educational Programming at Drisha. His most recent book was Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and his next book, Unbinding Isaac, on the ‘aḳedah in religious philosophy, is forthcoming, but he usually works on Semitic languages and linguistics. Aaron has served as a visiting professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and held research fellowships at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research and the Hartman Institute. He lives in Queens with his wife, Shira Hecht-Koller, and their children.

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