Shulamit Magnus will join us on Zoom to discuss:
From Women's Tefilla at the Kotel to the Kotel Deal: Whose Space, Whose Practice?

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Online registration will close Friday, February 25 at noon.
(This program is completely free, but donations are welcome towards our Adult Education Programs and can be made when you register.)

Shulamit S. Magnus is Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History at Oberlin College. She is the author of four published books and numerous articles on Jewish modernity and the history of Jewish women, and winner of a National Jewish Book award and other prizes. She is a founder of women's group prayer at the Kotel and read Torah there in the first such service, in 1988. She is first-named plaintiff in a case before the Supreme Court of Israel asking enforcement of Jewish women's already-recognized right to read Torah at the Kotel, using scrolls held there, and she opposes the Kotel deal, which would criminalize women's group prayer at the Kotel. Her opinions have been published in the Forward, Tablet, EJewish Philanthropy, Moment, the Times of Israel, and the Jerusalem Post. She is currently at work on a book of scholarly advocacy about the history of agunot-- Jewish women held in marital captivity-- and how to free agunot and end iggun. She lives in Jerusalem.