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February 13, 2024
Understanding Lamentations
In this series, we will conduct a close reading of the text of Lamentations. We will focus on the poetry,... more
Dr. Adele Berlin

Dr. Adele Berlin

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Dr. Adele Berlin taught in the Winter Week 2011 program and several times in the Drishat Shalom Fellowship. She is the Robert H. Smith Professor of Bible Emerita at University of Maryland. Her special interests are literary approaches to the Bible and the theory and practice of biblical interpretation. She has published seven books, written over thirty scholarly articles, and edited three books.

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February 7, 2024
Community Kinnot
Community Kinnot, led by Rabba Wendy Amsellem and Rabbi David Silber, joined by members of Drisha's learning community for recitation... more
Rabba Wendy Amsellem

Rabba Wendy Amsellem

Years of Experience
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Rabba Wendy Amsellem teaches Talmud and Halakha at Yeshivat Maharat and directs The Beit Midrash Program, a joint project of Maharat and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. She also teaches regularly at Drisha, Pardes, and the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.  Rabba Wendy received semikha from Yeshivat Maharat and is an alumna of the Drisha Scholars Circle. She has a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University.

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Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

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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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September 18, 2022
Isaiah’s Prophecies of Consolation: The Movement from Tisha Ba’av to Rosh Hashanah
Dr. Yael Ziegler

Dr. Yael Ziegler

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Dr. Yael Ziegler is an Assistant Professor in Tanakh at Herzog College and Matan. As of September 2021, Dr. Ziegler assumed the position of Rosh Batei Midrash and Academic Director of Matan. She received her BA from Stern College and an MA and Ph.D. at Bar Ilan University. Dr. Ziegler has lectured widely on various Tanakh topics in Israel, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and Europe. Dr. Ziegler is the author of Promises to Keep: The Oath in Biblical Narrative and Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy, which has been translated into Hebrew. Her book: Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World was released in June, 2021. She is currently working on a book on Exodus.

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August 7, 2022
‘She Gave No Thought to Her Future’ – Reading Eicha Through the Ages
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Miriam Gedwiser

Years of Experience
30 Lectures

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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July 27, 2021
Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Jeremiah: A Prophet of Anger and Love
In his book The Prophets (1962), Abraham Joshua Heschel sought to resurrect before us the prophetic experience. In this lesson... more
Dr. Dror Bondi

Dr. Dror Bondi

Years of Experience
7 Lectures

Dror Bondi is dedicated to bringing Abraham Joshua Heschel’s thought to Israel, translating his words into Hebrew and transforming Israel by his spirit. Dror has a doctorate in Jewish Thought from Bar-Ilan University and his dissertation, Heschel’s Hermeniutics, will be published next year. Dror has translated several of Heschel’s books into Hebrew. He is the author of Where Art Thou? which won the Shalem Prize in 2006. He lives with his family in Jerusalem in Beit Yisrael, an urban-kibbutz community of religious and non-religious Jews who unite together in social and spiritual activism.

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July 27, 2021
Faith in a Turbulent World: Eikha’s Magnificent Design
The book of Eikha describes the terrible events surrounding the destruction of Jerusalem and the subsequent exile of Judea's inhabitants.... more
Dr. Yael Ziegler

Dr. Yael Ziegler

Years of Experience
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Dr. Yael Ziegler is an Assistant Professor in Tanakh at Herzog College and Matan. As of September 2021, Dr. Ziegler assumed the position of Rosh Batei Midrash and Academic Director of Matan. She received her BA from Stern College and an MA and Ph.D. at Bar Ilan University. Dr. Ziegler has lectured widely on various Tanakh topics in Israel, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and Europe. Dr. Ziegler is the author of Promises to Keep: The Oath in Biblical Narrative and Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy, which has been translated into Hebrew. Her book: Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World was released in June, 2021. She is currently working on a book on Exodus.

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July 27, 2021
Tisha B’Av and its Liturgy: Opportunities For Reflection
An examination of the character and fabric of the day as seen through the standard liturgy and biblical readings of... more
Rabbi David Silber

Rabbi David Silber

Years of Experience
362 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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August 19, 2020
God Who Suffers With: Divine Presence Amidst Pain
Jewish tradition has often mourned the destruction of the Temple by tying loss to collective transgression, evoked most poignantly through... more
Rabbi Julia Watts Belser

Rabbi Julia Watts Belser

Years of Experience
1 Lectures

Rabbi Julia Watts Belser is an associate professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University.  Her research centers on gender, sexuality, and disability in rabbinic literature, as well as Jewish feminist ethics.  She is the author of Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2018), as well as Power, Ethics, and Ecology: Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster (Cambridge University Press, 2015).  A rabbi and a longtime advocate for disability and gender justice, she writes queer feminist Jewish theology and brings disability arts and culture into conversation with Jewish tradition. 

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August 10, 2020
On Suffering and Metaphors: Limits and Opportunities
The book of Eichah is saturated with metaphors that serve to capture a range of emotions in the wake of... 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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