Talmudic Women as Social Critics

Join us for an opportunity to hear from one of the leading voices in Jewish feminism. Valley Beit Midrash presents “Talmudic Women as Social Critics,” a lecture by professor Tova Hartman.

About Tova Hartman:

Tova Hartman, scholar and social entrepreneur, is the Dean of Humanities at the Kiryat Ono Academic College. She was formerly Professor of Gender Studies and Education at Bar Ilan University, specializing in gender and religion, and gender and psychology. She is the author of a book on Jewish and Catholic mothers, titled Appropriately Subversive, as well as a book on the crossroads of Jewish Tradition and modern feminism, titled Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 2008. She most recently authored Are You Not a Man Of God? Devotion, Betrayal and Social Criticism in Jewish Tradition. She is a founder of Kehillat Shira Hadasha, a congregation organized to increase women’s participation and leadership within traditional Jewish prayer and halakha. She is the daughter of Rabbi Prof. David Hartman.

RSVPs are required. Please visit: www.valleybeitmidrash.org/events/talmudic-women-social-critics/

Date:

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Cost:

$18/person

Venue:

Temple Kol Ami (64th Street & Greenway Rd.)

15030 N 64th Street

Scottsdale, AZ