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Dianne Cohler-Esses
UJA Federation of New York
Telephone: 212-836-1342
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Dianne Cohler-Esses is the first woman from the Syrian Jewish community to become a rabbi (and so far the only!). She received ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1995. She has served on the faculty of CLAL, the Bronfman Youth Fellowship, the HUC Kollel, The Curriculum Initiative and the Skirball Center for Adult Learning. Currently she serves as a Scholar in Residence for UJA Federation. She lives in Manhattan with her journalist husband and their three children.
Revelation Restrained
On Reading Texts of Terror in the Torah
- Sunday 2:55PM–4:10PM Embassy Room 2
Text and Thought
Reading two stories of rape in the bible—the rape of Dina and the rape of Tamar—we will explore broader questions of our approach to texts of terror in the Torah. What do we do with narratives and laws that violate our ethics, and at times our very sense of humanity? By using literary interpretation, midrash (classical and contemporary), as well as scholarship, we will closely read these stories and explore some of their broader implications for the Torah as a divine text.
Revelation Restrained
On Reading Texts of Terror in the Torah
- Monday 9:45AM–11:00AM Empire Room 3
Text and Thought
Reading the story of the binding of Isaac, we will explore broader questions of our approach to texts of terror in the Torah. What do we do with narratives and laws that violate our ethics, and at times our very sense of humanity? Stories that are even beyond our very understanding? By using literary interpretation, midrash (classical and contemporary), as well as Biblical scholarship, we will closely read this text as well as explore its broader implications for the Torah as a divine text.
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