Join us for Shabbat Parashat Naso at Ramath Orah with a special guest speaker: Rabbi Dr. Wendy Zierler. She will be speaking three times on Shabbat (see below for the full schedule and titles for the lectures.) Don't forget to register for the community Shabbat dinner!  

Program for Shabbat:

Friday, June 10th

7:00 PM Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Maariv followed by a Community Dinner

"And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Herbew Women's Writing" 

Shabbat, June 11th

9:00 AM Shacharit followed by Kiddush

Following Kiddush: "The Song of the Sotah: a Feminist, Midrashic, Literary Re-reading of the Numbers 5" 

7:25 PM Mincha follwed by Seuda Shlishit

"Moondancing with Hava Shapiro, 1878-1943)":

Wendy Zierler is Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at HUC-JIR in New York. Prior to joining HUC-JIR she was a Research Fellow in the English Department of the University of Hong Kong. She earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her books include These Truths We Hold: Judaism in an Age of Truthiness (with HUC colleague Joshua Garroway, 2022), Movies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation (SUNY Press, Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, 2017) and of And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Hebrew Women’s Writing (2004). In June 2021, she received rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva Maharat.