EDUCATION
FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS
HALAKHA
JEWISH HISTORY
JEWISH MARRIAGE, DIVORCE and IGGUN
JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
LIFECYCLE EVENTS AND RITUALS
SPIRITUALITY
TANACH / BIBLE
WOMEN IN JUDAISM
OTHER
EDUCATION
JOFA Gender and Orthodoxy Curriculm - Bereishit: A New Beginning - A Differentiated Approach to Learning and Teaching
Dr. Chaya Gorsetman
Homeschooling: Fringe Movement or Viable Alternative in Jewish Education?
Viva Hammer
"Secular" and "Holy" - Educational priorities for the Modern Orthodox Community.
Deborah Klapper
Gender and education -- with a special focus on religious education. This topic includes issues of gender messages in schools, gender and curricula, single-sex versus coed education, power and hierarchy in schools, body issues, girls in the sciences and in sports, analysis of the most recent research in gender issues and the brain, and issues of gender and cultural differences.
Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman
Pre-marital education in the religious community: What does the Orthodox community consider pre-marriage education; what are the messages women and men -- receive before marriage; what is the archetypal orthodox relationship; are there ways we can be doing this better?
Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman
Torah Education for Women - Issues that arise in today's Orthodox world
Laura Shaw-Frank
FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS
American Family Law (including its implications for Jewish Communities) – e.g. surrogacy, and the new reproductive technologies
Janet Dolgin
The Interface of Psychiatry and Religious Life: Post-partum Depression, Anxiety and Depression
Dr. Michelle Friedman
Creating a meaningful Jewish environment for young children - at home and/or in school
Dr. Chaya Gorsetman
Blessed With Children: Why have Orthodox Family Sizes Have Grown in Modern Times While Other Families have Shrunk?
Viva Hammer
Relationships - Between Couples, Within Families, and in Organizations
Gael Hammer
Blended Families and the Jewish Community
Joan Katz
"She spat in his face, yet he did not shame her": The limits of Honor thy Father and Mother
Leebie Mallin
But Ima, Why Aren't Any Women on the Bima? - Raising Conscious and Concerned Children in the Orthodox Community.
Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus
Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community: Research indicates that Jewish women stay in abusive relationships longer than women of other ethnic groups. Reasons for this alarming statistic will be explored and discussed. Excerpts from the film “To Save a Life” will be shown as a trigger for discussion. Resources for community services will be shared
Naomi Mark
Jewish Step-Parenting: Challenges, Conflicts, and Choices – strategies and solutions
Naomi Mark
Orthodox Jewish Super Women: Doing it all – coping strategies for succeeding as the working mom
Naomi Mark
The Sandwich Generation: Women: Jewish women as multi-generational caregivers
Naomi Mark
Dealing with our Children - "those who comply/those who defy"
Miriam Schacter
HALAKHA
Positive Time Bound Commandments
The Ashkenazi Custom of Two Blessings for T'fillin - Is it a mistaken custom? A textual analysis.
Dr. Debby Koren
The Road To Wearing a Tallit - Addressing the Tensions of Change in the Community
Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus
Mikvah, Niddah and Sexuality
A Textual Analysis of Hilchot Niddah - Where do our Practices Come From?
Deborah Klapper
Tzelem: Creating a Comprehensive Curriculum on Sexuality and Relationships for the Orthodox Community
Jennie Rosenfeld
Women and Halakha
Any topic on Women and Halakha/Ritual. For example, Women and saying Kaddish, Women and Prayer, Women and the Synagogue, Women and Megillah Reading, etc...
Ms. Rahel Berkovits
Women and Halacha - observance of mitzvot, ritual participation
Rachel Dulitz
"Grace is deceptive, beauty is illusory" (Proverbs 31:30) - Two Halakhic Approaches to Elective Plastic Surgery. A text-based discussion.
Dr. Debby Koren
A Man Precedes a Women when Saving a Life (Horayot 3, 7) - What are the implications of the lesser obligation of women in mitzvot? A text-based study session on women's obligation in mitzvot.
Dr. Debby Koren
Women and Zimmun - A halakhic analysis of the view presented by Rishonei Ashkenaz, including halakha l'maaseh
Jennie Rosenfeld
Other Halakhic Topics
Halakhic Minyanim (Partnership Minyanim): Halakhic basis and consequences on Orthodox communities through case study
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Check Your Own Mezuzah - this workshop encourages us to keep the mitzvah of placing Mezuzot in our homes and checking them twice every seven years by teaching how to tell if a Mezuzah is kosher.
Soferet S Avielah Barclay
The Blessing on Blossoming Trees: Tracing a Journey From the Gemara to Present Day Halacha -- using the blessing on blossoming trees as an example, this speech traces the development of Jewish law from the gemara to its practical application today.
Viva Hammer
Agenda in P'sak Halakha - Are halakhic decisions based on a search for truth or are they influenced by public policy considerations? A text-based study session.
Dr. Debby Koren
Raisinettes - Safek and Humrot: An examination of the halakhic approach and the tendency to choose stringent rulings, using source texts.
Dr. Debby Koren
Responsa in a Historical Context - Early modern and modern responsa are examined in the context of the events of their times, such as post-expulsion Sephardic Jewish experience or European Jewish experience during or following the time of emancipation.
Dr. Debby Koren
JEWISH HISTORY
Relationship between Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism as preserved in texts from the first centuries
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Dignity in the Face of the Holocaust: The Chevra Kadisha During the Holocaust
Mrs. Rochel Berman
Australian Jewish History and Writing Family Stories
Gael Hammer
19th - 20th Century Polish Chasidism - A historical overview to figures and ideas in this movement/ Chasidic perspectives on the Holidays
Jennie Rosenfeld
JEWISH MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND IGGUN
Agunah - The halachic roots of the problem, the gravity and dimension of the problem, and the debate over proposed solutions
Dr. Susan Aranoff
"The Interpretive Strategies of Rabbinic Court Pleaders": a presentation of 3 "ideal types" of pleaders and the interpretive strategies that they employ to reconcile modern values and traditional
Attorney Susan Weiss
Are Some Pre-nupts Better than Others? A survey of pre-nuptial agreements meant to ameliorate the problem of Jewish women and divorce
Attorney Susan Weiss
Taking Form: The Tort of Get Recalcitrance: a description of how the tort of get recalcitrance is taking form in Israel and how this is part of a world-wide trend. Is it a solution to the problem of J
Attorney Susan Weiss
JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
Torat Hayyim a Living Torah: The Status of Women in the Thought of Rabbi Professor Eliezer Berkovits
Ms. Rahel Berkovits
Toward Building a Gender-Critical Approach to the Philosophy of Halakha
Dr. Ronit Ir-shai
Midrash Aggadah: Reading and exploring the philosophy and beliefs of our sages, emphasizing women issues
Rachel Keren
Rambam - especially Guide for Pereplexed and other Philosophic writings
Rachel Keren
Theoretical/philosophical groundings for Orthodox feminism in relation to actual religious practice
Dr. Miriam Udel-Lambert
LIFECYCLE EVENTS AND RITUALS
When Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things: How We Ensure Dignity Beyond Death
Mrs. Rochel Berman
How life cycle events such as births, weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and Bat Mitzvahs affect the family and how to make these events meaningful for adults as well as for children
Dr. Chaya Gorsetman
Making a Meaningful Bat Mitzvah: Getting Beyond the Party to a Celebration that Teaches Values for Life.
Viva Hammer
SPIRITUALITY
ShalhevetYah: the Holy Flame of the AlefBet, an exploration of Midrash on the Hebrew letters, lessons on how to connect with the Divine, on Social Action & more that can be found in their shapes & in the spaces in between!
Soferet S Avielah Barclay
Eish Lavan: The Torah of the Spaces - A Chassidic view on the potential role of the individual in uncovering new meaning in Torah
Jennie Rosenfeld
The Sage and the Prophet - Two Models of Jewish Spirituality
Dr. Tamar Ross
Kabbalistic Writings on the Nature of Masculine & Feminine: A Vision of how Women and Men will Relate when they have Healed Themselves and Fixed the World, based on the Talmudic tale of the sun and moon
Sara Yehudit Schneider
TANACH / BIBLE
Text Study in Tanach
The Meaning of Midrash - The place of midrash in rabbinic literature, the medium and its messages
Dr. Susan Aranoff
Midrashei Halakha: Introduction and text study of topics treated in legal Midrashim, and the Aggada in early tannaitic material
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Biblical themes and Biblical poetry, socio-historical analysis of commentaries, and associated ideas in the Five Books of Moses, Esther, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs
Sharon Freundel
Ben Zoma is already outside” -- An Ill-fated Journey into Pardes: Close readings and comparisons within rabbinic literature will be used to explore the journey and fate of this relatively less-known member of the “four who entered Pardes”
Miriam Gedwiser
From Temple to Torah -- Pilgrimage in Masekhet Hagigah: This session is geared for shalosh regalim, especially Shavuot and/or Simchat Torah
Miriam Gedwiser
Preserving the Bible Throughout the Centuries
Deena Grant
The Genesis Creation Story in it's Ancient Near Eastern Context
Deena Grant
Topics in Midrashic and Agggadic Literature - an in-depth analysis of selected midrashim or aggadic materials from the Talmud on a range of topics.
Karen Miller
Biblical Exegesis - Specifically employing the rich breadth of midrash to enhance our understanding of the Matriarchs, Patriarchs, and Moses.
Sandra Rapoport Esq.
Women in Tanach
A wide range of topics in Tanach with an emphasis on women and women issues
Rachel Keren
The Daughters of Zelophechad: Rabbinic reflections on assertive women
Leebie Mallin
Biblical Women: Ancient Voices, Modern Wisdom - the Sacred Art of Modern Midrash
Dr. Vanessa Ochs
WOMEN IN JUDAISM
Women of the Wall - politics and religion in Israel, the quest for women's religious and spiritual fulfillment
Dr. Susan Aranoff
Netivat Sofrut - A dramatic tale of the road less traveled, including provocative discussion of the political and Jewish legal complexities of work as a certified Soferet.
Soferet S Avielah Barclay
Women, Frumkeit and the "Modern" Orthodox World: Why has the Orthodox community increasingly measured their religiosity through references to the habits, clothing, and experiences of women?
Janet Dolgin
The Interface of Women and Judaism: women and prayer, women and Torah learning, women in Tanach
Sharon Freundel
Women and Jewish communal leadership: What are the specific challenges women face in Jewish communal work and advancements; what are the professional cultures in the Jewish community and how do they affect women; what is the relationship between gender and leadership in the Jewish community at large.
Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman
Establishing a Minyan or Women's Tefillah Group - Working with Conflict in your Community
Miriam Schacter
OTHER
Inside every Jew there is a mob of Jews. Jewish writers capture the varieties of the contemporary Jewish experience
Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman
Sh'ma Yisrael: a workshop for the kids (or adults) on how to write the Sh'ma with a feather-quill on parchment.
Soferet S Avielah Barclay
Dignity in the Wake of Terrorism: The Chevra Kadisha Following Terrorist Attacks
Mrs. Rochel Berman
Pesach/Chag Hamatzot in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Second Temple sources
Dr. Shani Berrin
American Constitutional Law: Interpretations of the religion clauses
Janet Dolgin
Personhood, Discrimination and the New Genetics: Why are Jews (Askenazi Jews in particular) being associated with a disproportionate number of harmful genetic alterations and what are the consequences?
Janet Dolgin
Pastoral Counseling - What should communities expect from rabbis and how can communities support psychological health
Dr. Michelle Friedman
Capital Punishment in Jewish Thought: Contemporary American as well as rabbinic sources will be used to explore three questions: Why punish? Why not punish? How to punish?
Miriam Gedwiser
Gender and Jewish adolescence. What are the specific challenges to being an adolescent religious girl? What messages do religious girls encounter at home, in school, with teachers and rabbis? How can we be doing this better?
Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman
Social Justice Issues (including peace) in Judaism and the State of Israel
Leah Shakdiel
Modern Jewish Literature and its Relationship to Particular Themes Found in Jewish Literature of all Times
Dr. Miriam Udel-Lambert
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