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Women and Gender

All the Honor of the King’s Daughter Is Within: Imma Shalom and the Feminine Ideal

Hosted By: Orange County Community Scholar Program (CSP)

Who, according to rabbinic literature, is the perfect woman? Does Imma Shalom, Mother Peace, fulfill this ideal? And what has this to do with the greatest story the Talmud has ever told? Join a 4-part series exploring the tragedy of Imma Shalom through the Bible, Midrash, and Talmud; Xenophon, St. Paul, and Muhammad; Tennyson, Dickens, and Patmore; Ruskin, Rav Kook, and Betty Freidan.

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Gila Fine

Gila Fine is a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, exploring the tales of the Talmud through philosophy, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and pop culture. She serves on the faculties of the Nachshon Project, Amudim Seminary, the Tikvah Scholars Program, the London School of Jewish Studies, the Community Scholar Program, and WebYeshiva, and has taught thousands of students at conferences, campuses, and communities across the Jewish world. As editor-in-chief of Maggid Books, Gila worked closely with such leading scholars as Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, publishing over 100 titles of contemporary Jewish thought, including several bestsellers and eight National Jewish Book Award winners. She is also the former editor of Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation. Her work has been featured in the BBC, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, Tradition Journal, Jewish News, and The Jewish Chronicle (which selected her as one of the ten most influential Brits in Israel). Haaretz has called her “a young woman on her way to becoming one of the more outstanding Jewish thinkers of the next generation.
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Orange County Community Scholar Program (CSP)

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