LimmudFest NY 2020

What happens when smart women with feminist sensibilities encounter the infamously misogynist Talmud? How do they deal with the paradox of unrequited love? What can we learn from the way distinguished women scholars, such as Ilana Kurshan, Rachel Adler and Judith Hauptman, approach these texts? This class will focus on a cutting-edge technique for reading - and reclaiming- stories of the aggadah from a woman’s perspective. Discover how these rabbinic stories actually question - and even sabotage - shaky assumptions, while restoring gender equality in surprising ways that are liberating for all.