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Sunday, August 18 • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
#MeToo: What Vashti and Esther Can Teach Us About Responding to Abuses of Power

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Vashti and Esther both find themselves confronting men who wield absolute power over them. What lessons can we learn from how each woman tries to maintain her dignity and agency in fraught situations?

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Wendy Amsellem

A Rabba who teaches Talmud and Jewish Law at Yeshivat Maharat, the first seminary to ordain Orthodox Women, Wendy also teaches at Pardes and Drisha. An alumnus of Harvard University, she received semicha from Yeshivat Maharat. She edits Maharat's Keren Journal and was a founding editor... Read More →


Sunday August 18, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Room 8

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