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Get to Know Maharat
Learn more about Maharat here: https://www.yeshivatmaharat.org/
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Get to Know the Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination Track
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-ordination
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I Felt a Calling
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/revava
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Maharat: The Cohort
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/revava
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Maharat: 10 Years From Now
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Looking Back, Looking Forward
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.
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Maharat Rachel Kohl Finegold - Transforming community
Maharat Rachel Kohl Finegold is shaping Jewish life in Montreal in davening, teaching, counseling and more.
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#YMHineni - New York
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Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter - Potomac
How did Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter impact her community in only a few short months? Hear from community members in Potomac, MD.
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Stories from our Students
Who are our students and faculty? How did they come to Maharat? Learn more in this short video.
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Maharat Rori Picker Neiss
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.
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Breaking boundaries as a female Orthodox rabbi | MORAL COURAGE EP. 14
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/moralcouragechannel
Get to Know the Maharat Faculty
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About the Maharat Faculty
“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/revava2019
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Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, Rosh Yeshiva, Maharat
“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/revava2019
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Rabbanit Devorah Zlochower, Maharat Dean
“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/revava2019
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Rabba Wendy Amsellem, Maharat Faculty
"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/revava2019
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Rabbi Adam Mintz, Maharat Faculty
"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/revava2019
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Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler, Maharat Faculty
"My goal is 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/revava2019
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Dr. Esther Altmann, Maharat Faculty
"Dr. Esther Altmann - I just hang on her every word. I feel so blessed to have Esther Altmann 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/revava2019
Divrei Torah
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Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Rabba Wendy Amsellem
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Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Rabba Yaffa Epstein
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Maharat - Abundance of Torah - Rabbi Dr Erin Leib Smokler
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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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Event Archive
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Sixth Annual Semikha Ceremony Highlights
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11. 30. 17 Community Leadership Series Panel
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 Bernstein
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Ilana Kurshan 11 08 17 "If All the Seas Were Ink"
Ilana Kurshan discussing her memoir "If All the Seas Were Ink" at Yeshivat Maharat on November 8th, 2017.
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Maharat Rori Picker Neiss
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.
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Breaking boundaries as a female Orthodox rabbi | MORAL COURAGE EP. 14
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/moralcouragechannel
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Introduction: Continuity & Creativity - Dina Brawer
What happens when we encounter a tension between two values that is not solvable?
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'Spiritual Explorers and their Discoveries'
Rabbi Sara Hurwitz and Rav Ysoscher Katz in conversation with Dina Brawer highlighting their personal journeys along the continuity and creativity spectrum
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A view to the future - Rabba Sara Hurwitz
What impact will current halachic innovations have on the future of Orthodox Judaism? What changes can detected just over the horizon and how will they shape tradition?
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