Programming for Tisha B'Av
Wednesday, July 29
8:30-9:15pm: Brief intro and reading of Eicha, the Book of Lamentations
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/2ZSfEn6 Webinar ID: 818 0394 5992
9:15-10:00pm: A Cry in the Night: Eicha as a Lamentation with Rabbi Silber
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/2ZSfEn6 Webinar ID: 818 0394 5992
Thursday, July 30
10:30am-12:30pm: Kinot discussion
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/3hs8k7K Webinar ID: 885 9372 5326
1:00-2:15pm: The Impossibility of Mourning? Zoharic Thoughts on Two Millennia (and counting) of Tisha B’Av with Dr. Nathaniel Berman
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/3fSMSZk Webinar ID: 894 2740 4792
2:30-3:45pm: On Suffering and Metaphors: Limits and Opportunities with
Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/30vGUXG Webinar ID: 842 5707 1407
4:00-5:15pm: God Who Suffers With: Divine Presence Amidst Pain with
Julia Watts Belser
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/2WO13Hx Webinar ID: 830 5966 7739
4 : 00-5 : 15pm for high school young women : Text Study and Interactive
Workshop on The Poetics of Destruction with Shira Hecht-Koller
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/30GtxnX Webinar ID: 828 7270 2484

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About the Teachers
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Rabbi David Silber is the Founder and Dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. He received ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He is a Covenant Award recipient, has authored of a haggadah and is writing on a book about Megillat Esther.  
Dr. Nathaniel Berman is a professor at Brown University and co-directs Brown University’s Religion and Internationalism Project. He holds a PhD in Jewish Studies from the University College London. He focuses on kabbalah and Hasidut.
Dr. Tammy Jacobowitz holds a PhD in Midrash from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Wexner Graduate Fellow, and is a graduate of the Drisha Scholars Circle. She teaches at SAR High School and the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, co-wrote a gender sensitive Shmot curriculum for JOFA, and has been on the faculty at Drisha and Me’ah NYC.
Rabbi Julia Watts Belser is an associate professor at Georgetown University. She has authored 2 books on gender, sexuality, and disability in rabbinic literature, as well as Jewish feminist ethics. A rabbi and a longtime advocate for disability and gender justice, she writes queer feminist Jewish theology and brings disability arts and culture into conversation with Jewish tradition. 
Shira Hecht-Koller  is the Director of the  Dr. Beth Samuels Summer High School Program  at Drisha and Director of Education for 929 English. She teaches Talmud and Jewish identity, and writes on about education, creative living and family life. She was a Fellow at the Paideia Institute of Jewish Studies, teaches at Experiential Jewish Education from M²: The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education, and graduated from Beruria Scholars program at Midreshet Lindenbaum and from Cardozo School of Law. 
These classes are open to men and women from around the world.
We hope you'll join us for this enriching learning opportunity.
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