One-Night Stand: A Radical Approach to Talmud

Familiar with the Hebrew aleph-bet? Continue learning with Rabbi Benay Lappe for a deeper dive into the study of Jewish texts and an opportunity to transform your relationship to the tradition. If you'd like to join us but are not familiar with the aleph-bet, please indicate this on the registration form or give us a call at 734-764-5392. We can provide you with resources and support to prepare for this text study.

Part of the Jewish Communal Leadership Program's "WHAT NOW? Communal Conversations for Unreasonable Times" a weekend of provocative study and discussion that can help us meet this challenging moment. Programs run February 18th and 19th, and feature diversity educator Yavilah McCoy and Rabbi Benay Lappe.

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Rabbi Benay Lappe is Founder and Rosh Yeshiva of SVARA, a traditionally radical yeshiva based in Chicago that offers accessible, complex, and highly accountable traditional Jewish education from a Queer perspective. Ordained in 1997 by the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Lappe has founded multiple programs to support LGBTQ Jews of all ages, taught at six different universities, and been named by The Forward as one of America's Most Inspiring Rabbis (2014). Rabbi Lappe is an award-winning educator, and a 2016 recipient of the prestigious Covenant Award and is an associate at two progressive Jewish think tanks (Institute for the Next Jewish Future and CLAL). While learning and teaching Talmud are Rabbi Lappe's greatest passions, she is also a licensed pilot, shoemaker, and patent-holding inventor.

Presented as part of the Frankel Speakers Series with the generous support of the Covenant Foundation.   Co-sponsored by Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, Michigan Hillel, Department of America Culture, Dean's TBLG Matters Initiative, and AHAVA.