The Changing Role of Women and Ritual
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Dr. Elliott Malamet
Dr. Malamet received his doctorate in English Literature from the University of Toronto, where he taught from 1987-1993. Dr. Malamet's work in the field of spiritual education has been featured in the leading Canadian newspapers and he has appeared on Canadian radio and television. He has run seminars on teaching Judaism to young people in the United States, Canada, England and Israel and is consulted by people worldwide on the subject of Jewish education. A sought-after speaker in Canada and overseas, Dr.…
Dr. Rivkah Blau
Rivkah Blau, an adjunct professor at Stern College, began teaching Torah when she was fifteen. She has been a teacher, principal, lecturer and author in the decades since. Her doctoral thesis at Columbia was on Psalms in English poetry. She is a member of the editorial board of Tradition. Learn Torah, Love Torah, Live Torah, her biography of her father, Rav Mordechai Pinchas Teitz, z’l, published in Israel as ושמחת בחייך, conveys his approach of Torah knowledge for everyone, while enjoying what…
Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Frimer
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Rahel Berkovits
Rahel Berkovits lectures in Talmud, halakhah and the status of women in Judaism at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. She has spent many years studying Talmud and Jewish texts in both traditional and academic frameworks at such institutions as Midreshet Lindenbaum, The Shalom Hartman Institute, and Hebrew University in both the Talmud and Jewish education departments. She lectures widely in both Israel and abroad on topics concerning women and Jewish law, and has published entries in the…