Pardes from Jerusalem

This week Judy Klitsner discusses parshat VaYetzei.

Judy Klitsner will be launching her new book, entitled “Subversive Sequels In the Bible: How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other,” on Saturday night, December 5th at 8 pm, at the Pardes Institute, 29 Pierre Koenig Street, Jerusalem. Admission is free, no rsvp is needed. For more information about this evening of learning, music and celebration, you may write to info@pardes.org.il.

For a list of Judy’s upcoming speaking engagements, see www.judyklitsner.com

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About Judy Klitsner
Judy Klitsner is a senior faculty member at Pardes, where she has taught courses in Bible and Biblical exegesis for nearly two decades. She is a disciple of the great Torah teacher Nechama Leibowitz. In her teaching and in her writing, Klitsner weaves together traditional exegesis, modern scholarship, and her own original interpretations that are informed by close readings of the text.

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This week Rabbi Meir Schweiger discusses the Contested Blessing from parshat Toldot.

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About Rabbi Schweiger
Rabbi Meir Schweiger is a Senior Faculty Member and the Mashgiach Ruchani (the spiritual guide) of the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. He has been a full-time teacher there for the last 31 years, teaching Chumash, Mishna, Talmud, and Halacha. He is a dynamic and inspiring speaker, known for his keen and profound insights into the text. Meir has a BA in mathematics and physics from City College in New York. He did his advanced Jewish studies at Yeshiva University, Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh, and Yeshivat Har Etzion, receiving ordination from Rabbi Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg of Jerusalem. Meir served in the IDF as a combat medic. He has 9 children and lives in Efrat.

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Judy Klitsner and Yaffa Epstein will be speaking in the US in the coming weeks.

In addition to the attached schedule, please see Judy Klitsner’s web site for her complete speaking schedule and book tour locations around the world: www.judyklitsner.com

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Judy Klitsner’s new book, “Subversive Sequels in the Bible:
How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other” is now available from Amazon and other book sellers.

In this podcast, Rabbi Daniel Landes discusses parsha Hayyei Sara, focusing on Rivkah and Isaac.

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About Rabbi Landes
Rabbi Daniel Landes is the Director and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Rabbi Landes has been described as a “remarkable teacher who weaves the insights of his students together through a group process, in order to discover fascinating new meanings in age-old texts.” Rabbi Landes heads the Pardes team of outstanding scholars who are well-known for their use of unique educational methodology that combine independent thinking and deep understanding with sensitivity to contemporary relevance.

Rabbi Landes was a founding faculty member and Director of Educational Projects at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and a professor of Ethics and Values at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. He taught Jewish Law at Loyola Law School, and was a faculty member at prominent think tanks such as The RAND Corporation, and major Jewish educational institutions such as the Brandeis-Bardin Institute and CLAL. Rabbi Landes remains a long-term faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and serves on the educational advisory committee of Taglit-birthright Israel.

Rabbi Landes has lectured at the rabbinic seminaries of all major denominations. He is well-known for his struggle to create Jewish unity. In America his synagogue in Los Angeles, Bane-David Judaea, was known for Jewish inclusiveness, feminism, social action, and Halakhic observance. Rabbi Landes has written widely in the area of social ethics, theology and mysticism, and is the Jewish law commentator for the recent series, “My People’s Prayerbook,” a multi-denominational effort.

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In this episode Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels discusses Parshat VaYera.

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About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels
Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism.

Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a BA in Philosophy and Judaic Studies from Brown University and an M.St. in Modern Jewish Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford. He studied at the Conservative Yeshiva, the Hartman Institute of Jewish Studies, and in the Advanced Learning Seminar at Pardes and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Chicago in Jewish Studies specializing in Jewish mysticism. He has taught in a variety of settings in America and Israel on Judaism and Jewish Mysticism.

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