Rabbanit Dr. Liz Shayne
Director of Academic Affairs / Core Semikha, Class of 2021
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Rabbanit Dr. Liz Shayne is the Director of Academic Affairs at Yeshivat Maharat as well as a recent alumna. She came to Maharat after completing her PhD from University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied the past, present, and future of digital reading. She loves old books in new forms, analyzes how halakha and technology can work together, and is a teacher committed to the idea that studying Torah can and must be for everyone. During her time at Maharat, she worked with Sefaria on the Sefaria & Maharat Women Scholar’s Writing Fellowship and interned at Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob and the Hebrew Institute of White Plains. She writes and teaches about everything from how the Talmud is like the internet to the future of robots in halakha. Rabbanit Liz lives in Riverdale with her husband and two children.
publications and media
Title | Type | Category | Topic | Year |
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And You Shall Tell Your Self: Narratives, Neurodivergence, and Passover | Neurodivergent Torah | Holiday | Passover | 2024/5784 |
Seeing Esther's Face | Neurodivergent Torah | Holiday | Purim | 2024/5784 |
Choosing Light | Neurodivergent Torah | Holiday | Hanukkah | 2023/5784 |
Finding Justice in Jonah | Neurodivergent Torah | Holiday | Yom Kippur | September 19, 2023 |
Keren Journal: Volume 4 | Dvar Torah | Keren Journal | 5783/2023 | |
What is Neurodivergent Torah? | Neurodivergent Torah | Center for Lived Torah | 5783/2023 | |
The Mystery of the Parva Chamber | Multimedia | International Women's Talmud Day | April 25, 2021 | |
#maharat10daysoftorah Purim 2022, Day 1 | Dvar Torah; Multimedia | Holidays; Video Divrei Torah | Purim; #maharat10daysoftorah | 2022/5782 |
The First Yeshiva Exile | Dvar Torah | December 16, 2021 | ||
The Power of Analogy in מראה כהן | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Yom Kippur | 2018/5779 |
Rabbanit Dr. Liz Shayne - Maharat's 9th Annual Semikha Ceremony | Multimedia | Graduations | Ninth Semikha Ceremony | June 15, 2021 |
Breastfeeding Series Session 3 - Breastfeeding in Public, Synagogue and while Learning | Multimedia | Panels and Discussions | February 10, 2021 | |
Knowledge of the Heart, Knowledge of the Hands | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Tetzaveh | 2021/5781 |
Losing Yourself, Finding Yourself: Jacob’s Psychological Journey | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Vayeitzei | 2017/5778 |
In Defense of Legalism | Dvar Torah | Shemot | Mishpatim | 2020/5780 |
Spring Ahead and Fall Back: When Israel and the Diaspora Read Different Parashas" | Dvar Torah | Vayikra | Acharei Mot | 2019/5779 |
Sometimes You Need a Good Poem | Dvar Torah | Devarim | Haazinu | 2018/5779 |
Signed, Sealed, Delivered | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Rosh Hashana | 2019/5780 |
Mortal “Pair-il”: Zugot on the Seder Night | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Pesach | 2019/5779 |
A Door Opens: Reflections on the End of the Seder | Dvar Torah | Holiday | Pesach | 2018/5778 |
Aseret Yemei Teshuva 5779/2018 - Rabbanit Dr. Liz Shayne '21 | Multimedia; Holiday | Video Divrei Torah; Holiday | Rosh Hashana; Yom Kippur | 2018/5779 |
Sibling Rivalry: on Joseph and Judah the Righteous | Dvar Torah | Bereishit | Vayigash | 2020/5780 |
mentions
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