Speaking & Workshops

I am available for speaking engagements and workshops on topics including:

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• Disability Torah

• Somatic theology

• Queer, trans, and feminist midrash

• Creating deeply accessible communities

• Disability and power dynamics

• Disability wisdom for climate crisis and global instability

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Sample Past Speaking Engagements

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• Beth El New Rochelle Open Beit Midrash: Introduction to concepts in disability justice and disability Torah

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• Rebecca School: Staff development session on power and consent at school for children with developmental disabilities

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• Vanderbilt University: Session about current disability work in a course on Jewish Social Movements

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• Hadar Institute Community Beit Midrash: Small group text study on Dirshuni, a book of contemporary feminist midrashim 

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• National Havurah Committee Summer Institute: Bikkur Cholim from the Inside Out, a week-long text-based course on the emotional and spiritual experience of illness

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• National Havurah Committee Summer Institute: Hollander Social Justice Fellow teaching on disability justice in Jewish communities

 

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Sample Stand-Alone Text Study Sessions

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• M’shaneh ha-Briyot: Encountering Visible Physical Difference​

• Receiving Chesed: Flipping the Conversation​

• Disability and #MeToo​

• Imagining a Vulnerable God: Prayers, Tears, Repentance

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Sample Multi-Session Classes

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• Making Midrash: Beginnings​

• Making Midrash: Re-Imagining God, Radically​

• Bikkur Cholim from the Inside Out

• Are These Sufferings Dear to You? Yisurin Shel Ahavah