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Get to Know the Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination Track
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The Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination Track provides students with the infrastructure and institutional support to master the halakhic topics necessary to receive semikha, as well as pastoral training necessary to be a compelling spiritual leader. Once a woman graduates and receives semikha from Maharat she has the credentials to build rich, dynamic communities, impacting countless individuals on university campuses, in synagogues and Jewish organizations. Learn more here: https://www.yeshivatmaharat.org/kollel-executive-ordinationPeople & Blogs
Maharat Brand Video
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What are the core values, vision and impact of Maharat? Learn more about Maharat and how our logo represents all that we are.People & Blogs
I Felt a Calling, Revava Campaign 2018
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Maharat graduates reflect on the calling they felt to pursue semikha. To support Maharat students and graduates, please consider donating here: http://weblink.donorperfect.com/revavaPeople & Blogs
Maharat: The Cohort
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The Maharat program is filled with dynamic women passionate about Orthodox Judaism and leading the community. To support Maharat students and graduates, please consider donating here: http://weblink.donorperfect.com/revavaPeople & Blogs
10 Years from Now...Where will we be?
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Graduates of Maharat share their dreams for the Jewish community, ten years from now.People & Blogs
Looking Back, Looking Forward
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In celebration of our inaugural class of musmakhot (graduates), we look back at the history of women's leadership and the stories of our first three graduates and dream of what is to come.Our Scholars
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Maharat Rachel Kohl Finegold - Transforming community
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Maharat Rachel Kohl Finegold is shaping Jewish life in Montreal in davening, teaching, counseling and more.Rabbi Tali Adler - Manhattan
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Rabbi Tali Adler was a tremendous asset as an intern in Manhattan, as community members share in this compilation.Film & Animation
Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter - Potomac
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How did Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter impact her community in only a few short months? Hear from community members in Potomac, MD.Stories from our Students
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Who are our students and faculty? How did they come to Maharat? Learn more in this short video.Maharat Rori Picker Neiss
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Women’s Philanthropy of Jewish Federation of St. Louis brought together a group of 7 extraordinary women clergy to speak about their journey to becoming members of the clergy, the feminization of Judaism and women in leadership.Nonprofits & Activism
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Breaking boundaries as a female Orthodox rabbi | MORAL COURAGE EP. 14
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Subscribe! http://goo.gl/jHnM5 Facebook: http://www.facebook/moralcourage 3,000 years of Orthodox Judaism and no female rabbi - until now. Sara faced a firestorm within the Jewish community in the Bronx, New York - and throughout the world - when she became a "Rabba." Opponents accused her of splitting apart the community. But in the face of backlash, Sara pressed on and made history. She continues to teach within her community and train other Orthodox women as religious leaders. From Executive Producer Irshad Manji, Moral Courage TV tells the stories of people who are standing up when others want them to sit down. Whether they are confronting a bully, challenging their culture, or simply seeking truth, the agents of moral courage refuse to fail. Irshad Manji, Executive Producer of Moral Courage TV, invites you to discuss and debate on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/moralcourage Subscribe & share: http://www.youtube.com/user/moralcouragechannelNonprofits & Activism
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Get to Know the Maharat Faculty
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About the Maharat Faculty
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“Something I love about Maharat is the teachers. I came for the rebbeim, the faculty, the administration. I love how everybody’s heart is in the work that they’re doing and the Torah that they are teaching. They really believe in me and it helps me believe in myself and in the movement we are a part of as well.” - Emily Goldberg Winer, class of ‘22 Support Maharat and the Revava Campaign today! http://weblink.donorperfect.com/revava2019People & Blogs
Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, Rosh Yeshiva, Maharat
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“Part of what makes Maharat special is that it’s “ללמד על מנת ללמד”, to learn for the sake of teaching. Torah lishma is beautiful and wonderful and can be uplifting, but when you’re learning for the sake of teaching your community, then that learning takes on a different kind of power and depth.” - Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, Rosh Yeshivat Maharat. RSVP now and join us in the 2019 Revava Campaign! http://weblink.donorperfect.com/revava2019People & Blogs
Rabbanit Devorah Zlochower, Maharat Dean
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“I believe passionately in Talmud Torah. I believe passionately in Talmud Torah for women and that women’s learning and women’s voices are a critically important part of Torah and of the conversation.” - Rabbanit Devorah Zlochower, Dean Support Maharat and join the Revava Campaign Today! www.weblink.donorperfect/revava2019People & Blogs
Rabbi Wendy Amsellem, Maharat Faculty
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"Something I love about Rabba Wendy is that her enthusiasm for halakha is contagious." -Emily Goldberg Winer, Student RSVP now and join us in the 2019 Revava Campaign! http://weblink.donorperfect.com/revava2019People & Blogs
Rabbi Adam Mintz, Maharat Faculty
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"The highlight of my day is listening to those chevrutot learning the same gemara that I’m teaching but with their own twist and their own understanding of the gemara." - Rabbi Adam Mintz RSVP now and join us in the 2019 Revava Campaign! http://weblink.donorperfect.com/revava2019People & Blogs
Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler, Maharat Faculty
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"My goal is ls both help people develop themselves spiritually, and also begin to imagine themselves as shouldering other peoples’ religious needs." -Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler RSVP now and join us in the 2019 Revava Campaign! #revavacampaign http://weblink.donorperfect.com/revava2019People & Blogs
Dr. Esther Altmann, Maharat Faculty
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"Dr. Esther Altmann - I just hang on her every word. I feel so blessed to have Esther Altman as a teacher, to have someone with the experience she has, the insight. She’s incredibly emotionally astute, she brings her own experience to the table." - Yael Smooha, Student RSVP now and join us in the 2019 Revava Campaign!http://weblink.donorperfect.com/revava2019People & Blogs
Divrei Torah
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Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Rabba Wendy Amsellem
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Show your support for #maharatgivingday by donating at: maharatgivingday.yeshivatmaharat.orgPeople & Blogs
Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Rabba Yaffa Epstein
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Show your support for #maharatgivingday by donating at: maharatgivingday.yeshivatmaharat.orgPeople & Blogs
Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Rabbi Dr Erin Leib Smokler
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Show your support for #maharatgivingday by donating at: https://maharatgivingday.yeshivatmaharat.orgPeople & Blogs
Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld
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Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Michal Kohane
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Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Aliza Sperling
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Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Marianne Novak
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Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Maharat Ruth Balinsky Friedman
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Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Laura Shaw Frank
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Show your support for #maharatgivingday by donating at: maharatgivingday.yeshivatmaharat.orgPeople & Blogs
Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Rabba Sara Hurwitz
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Show your support for #maharatgivingday by donating at: maharatgivingday.yeshivatmaharat.orgPeople & Blogs
Purim Kibbitz
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Struck by the unbound giddiness of Purim, Abigail Pogrebin asks: How can the so-called 'People of the Book' simultaneously be the 'People of the Party'? Read more: http://jd.fo/a7jsePurim, Yaffa Epstein, Abigail Pogrebin
Torah Talk: Parashat Lech Lecha
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Shmuel Rosner sits down with Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn to discuss Parashat Lech Lecha. For more Shmuel Rosner: JewishJournal.com/RosnersDomainNews & Politics
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Event Archive
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Sixth Annual Semikha Ceremony 2018 Highlights
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11. 30. 17 Community Leadership Series Panel
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Featuring: Dr Giti Bendheim - Psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice Ariela Dubler - Head of School, The Abraham Joshua Heschel School Rabbi Joanna Samuels - Executive Director, Manny Cantor Center Moderated by Maya BernsteinPeople & Blogs
Ilana Kurshan 11 08 17 "If All the Seas Were Ink"
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Ilana Kurshan discussing her memoir "If All the Seas Were Ink" at Yeshivat Maharat on November 8th, 2017.People & Blogs
Maharat Rori Picker Neiss
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Women’s Philanthropy of Jewish Federation of St. Louis brought together a group of 7 extraordinary women clergy to speak about their journey to becoming members of the clergy, the feminization of Judaism and women in leadership.Nonprofits & Activism
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Breaking boundaries as a female Orthodox rabbi | MORAL COURAGE EP. 14
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Subscribe! http://goo.gl/jHnM5 Facebook: http://www.facebook/moralcourage 3,000 years of Orthodox Judaism and no female rabbi - until now. Sara faced a firestorm within the Jewish community in the Bronx, New York - and throughout the world - when she became a "Rabba." Opponents accused her of splitting apart the community. But in the face of backlash, Sara pressed on and made history. She continues to teach within her community and train other Orthodox women as religious leaders. From Executive Producer Irshad Manji, Moral Courage TV tells the stories of people who are standing up when others want them to sit down. Whether they are confronting a bully, challenging their culture, or simply seeking truth, the agents of moral courage refuse to fail. Irshad Manji, Executive Producer of Moral Courage TV, invites you to discuss and debate on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/moralcourage Subscribe & share: http://www.youtube.com/user/moralcouragechannelNonprofits & Activism
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Introduction: Continuity & Creativity - Dina Brawer
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What happens when we encounter a tension between two values that is not solvable?'Spiritual Explorers and their Discoveries'
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Rabbi Sara Hurwitz and Rav Ysoscher Katz in conversation with Dina Brawer highlighting their personal journeys along the continuity and creativity spectrumA view to the future - Rabba Sara Hurwitz
