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Pardes' Judy Klitsner will join us for shabbat meals and learning on May 17 and May 18. Judy Klitsner will be teaching two sessions. A shabbat dinner session: Five Stages of Post-October 7 Grief: Personal and Biblical Reflections (8pm on May 17), and a shabbat lunch session From Echo Chamber to Unique Inner Voice: Two Biblical Stories Combat a Culture of Uniformity (1pm on May 18). Childcare will be available for both sessions.REGISTRATION: To register, follow this link: https://forms.gle/CL5Z1asBhV5VLpRm6. Registration closes on May 5.
COST: Event cost is $18/meal for an individual and $54/meal maximum for a family.
SPONSORSHIP: To make this program accessible, the costs are highly subsidized. Please consider making an additional contribution so that we can serve more people now and in the future.
HOW TO PAY: Payments can be made one of three ways: Venmo to @Peter-Braasch. 2) Credit card payment to the Kulam Philanthropic Fund at the United Jewish Federation's Community Foundation. MAKE SURE that you DESIGNATE the "Kulam Fund." Follow this link https://jfedpgh.org/donate/foundation. 3) You can mail a check to the Jewish Community Foundation (2000 Technology Drive, Pittsburgh 15219). Make check out to "Kulam Fund."
Judy Klitsner is a senior lecturer at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where she has educated a generation of students, of whom many now serve as teachers and heads of
Jewish studies programs throughout the Jewish world. A disciple of the great Torah teacher Nechama Leibowitz, Judy lectures internationally, at venues that span the denominational spectrum, and she has taught Bible to Christian and Muslim audiences. Judy Klitsner is the author of Subversive Sequels in the Bible: How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other, which received a National Jewish book award. She is the founding board chair of Sacred Spaces, an organization that works to systemically address abuse in Jewish institutions. Judy has just completed a pilot for an ambitious joint Pardes-Sefaria project: an original, line-by-line commentary to the Pentateuch.
The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, located in Jerusalem, brings together people of all backgrounds to study classic Jewish texts and current Jewish issues in an open, warm, and challenging learning environment.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Levinson Hall, JCC, 5738 Darlington Road Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 5738 Darlington Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15217-1512, United States,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
