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February 13, 2024
Hanukkah: Holiday of Homebodies
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Rabbanit Leah Sarna

Years of Experience
29 Lectures

Rabbanit Leah Sarna is the Associate Director of Education and Director of High School Programs at Drisha. She previously served as Director of Religious Engagement at Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel Congregation in Chicago, a leading urban Orthodox congregation.

She was ordained at Yeshivat Maharat in 2018, holds a BA from Yale University in Philosophy & Psychology, and also trained at the SKA Beit Midrash for Women at Migdal Oz, Drisha and the Center for Modern Torah Leadership. Rabbanit Sarna’s published works have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Lehrhaus and MyJewishLearning.

She has lectured in Orthodox synagogues and Jewish communal settings around the world and loves spreading her warm, energetic love for Torah and Mitzvot with Jews in all stages of life.

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December 10, 2020
לראות את הנרות – גפ”ת 41
Rabbanit Hanna Godinger

Rabbanit Hanna Godinger

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Rabbanit Hanna Godinger (Dreyfuss) serves as Rosh Yeshiva and teaches gemara (iyun). Rabbanit Dreyfuss learned in Migdal Oz, Matan, and Beit Morasha. She earned her BA in philosophy and psychology and her MA in Talmud. She served as Rabbanit Beit Sefer in Pelech High School, as Rosh Beit Midrash in Midreshet Lindenbaum, and as head of the Metivta program in advanced Talmud at Matan. Rabbanit Dreyfuss is a sought-after speaker and teacher who has been invited to teach in yeshivot and panels of rashei yeshiva.

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December 31, 2019
Anti-Judeanism and Anti-Judaism: The Formation of Jewish Identity and the Story of Chanukkah
This webinar will consider what Jewish life was like in Judea and in the diaspora during the time... more
Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

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Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich is the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies and the director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She is the author of The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria (2016), and Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism (2018), which received the 2019 AJL Judaica Reference Honor Award. Simkovich’s articles have been published in journals such as the Harvard Theological Review and the Journal for the Study of Judaism, as well as on online forums such as The Lehrhaus, TheTorah.com, and the Times of Israel. She is involved in numerous local and international interreligious dialogue projects which help to increase understanding and friendship between Christians and Jews.

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December 28, 2016
“It is forbidden to light with an old candle” – Chanukkah and the Oral Torah
What does it mean for Chanuka to be the only major holiday invented in the post-biblical era? ... more
Miriam Gedwiser
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Miriam Gedwiser

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Miriam Gedwiser is the Rosh Kollel of the Drisha Summer Kollel and teaches Talmud and Tanakh at the Ramaz Upper School. She has a B.A. in the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from N.Y.U. School of Law. Miriam studied at Midreshet Lindenbaum and in the Drisha Scholar’s circle. She previously practiced commercial litigation at a large law firm and clerked for the Hon. Debra Freeman, U.S.M.J., in Manhattan. Miriam serves as a guest lecturer at synagogues and programs around the Northeast, and has written on topics of Jewish and Torah interest for The Lehrhaus, The Forward, the Center for Modern Torah Leadership blog, and Project 929. Miriam lives Teaneck, New Jersey with her family.

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December 28, 2016
Purim and Chanukkah: Text and Temple
The observance of Purim centers around the Megillah, which becomes part of the canon. Chanuka, by... more
Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

Years of Experience
350 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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December 27, 2016
Purim and Chanukkah: Megillah and Hallel
A central observance of Chanuka is the recitation of Hallel on all eight days; on Purim Hallel is... more
Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

Years of Experience
350 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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December 26, 2016
The Jews of Diaspora in the Hasmonean Period
When the Hasmoneans ruled Judea in the second and first centuries BCE, hundreds of thousands of... more
Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

Years of Experience
8 Lectures

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich is the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies and the director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She is the author of The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria (2016), and Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism (2018), which received the 2019 AJL Judaica Reference Honor Award. Simkovich’s articles have been published in journals such as the Harvard Theological Review and the Journal for the Study of Judaism, as well as on online forums such as The Lehrhaus, TheTorah.com, and the Times of Israel. She is involved in numerous local and international interreligious dialogue projects which help to increase understanding and friendship between Christians and Jews.

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December 26, 2016
Maccabees and Martyrdom
Dying for a cause is considered by many the most noble form of death, and dying for one’s faith... more
Dr. Aaron Koller

Dr. Aaron Koller

Years of Experience
35 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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December 25, 2016
Darkness Envelops Me
The Talmud tells about the origins of Chanukah in a way that closely parallels a talmudic legend... more
Dr. Devora Steinmetz

Dr. Devora Steinmetz

Years of Experience
13 Lectures

Devora Steinmetz serves on the faculty of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School and the Mandel Leadership Institute. She is the founder of Beit Rabban, a Jewish day school profiled in Daniel Pekarsky’s Vision at Work: The Theory and Practice of Beit Rabban. She is the author of scholarly articles on Talmud, Midrash, and Bible as well as of two books, From Father to Son: Kinship, Conflict, and Continuity in Genesis and Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law. She has served on the faculty of Drisha, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshivat Hadar, and Havruta: a Beit Midrash at Hebrew University.

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