Masorti Women in Israel and Diaspora sisters who are visiting Israel are invited to the 19th Regional Masorti Women’s Study Days.
Prof. Alice Shalvi will teach at each of the three regional study days, focusing on her recent memoir, “Never a Native.” She will teach the class together with Rabbi Nathalie Lastreger. Prof. Shalvi will focus on sections from her memoir, which echo the theme of “Women’s Voices Changing the Discourse: Bible to Today” and Rabbi Lastreger will examine the halakhah related to this issue.
Rabbi Amy Levin, the second woman graduate of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, will clarify how the Conservative/Masorti Movement’s Committee on Halakhah operates and will focus on some current issues regarding the role of women.
For the first time, Prof. Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern will be teaching at the Women’s Study days. Her lecture will focus on the writings of Jewish women in Pre-State Israel that influenced a change in attitude towards the role of women.
Sponsored by Women’s League for Conservative Judaism and Midreshet Schechter, with the help of the Masorti Movement.