Kaddish Women's Voices - Book Event
Sunday, January 25, 2015 • 5 Shevat 5775
9:30 AM - 11:00 AMLL BM |
Topic: Mourning, Memories & Moving On Moderated by Editors: Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas Hear Bayit panelists Debbie Jonas, Dr. Rachel Mesch , Dr. Chaya Gorsetman, and Amy Koplow all contributors to the National Jewish Book Award winning “Kaddish: Women’s Voices”. |
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Chaya R. Gorsetman, Ed.D, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Education, and the Co-Chair of the Education Department at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. She specializes in supervision of student teachers and curriculum studies with a strong emphasis on the constructivist theory of education. She has served as the director and co-author of the JOFA Gender and Orthodoxy Curriculum Project, Bereshit: A New Beginning—A Differentiated Approach to Learning and Teaching. More recently, she co-authored a book, Educating in the Divine Image: Gender Issues in Orthodox Jewish Day Schools, published October 2013, Hadassa Brandies, which won the National Jewish Book Award 2013. |
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Since 2000, Amy Koplow has been the Executive Director of the Hebrew Free Burial Association, in its 127th year of service to the greater New York City Jewish community. Prior to her position with HFBA, she was a faculty member at various universities including Queens College and SUNY-Albany. She earned two degrees from Brandeis University. She is the proud mother of 2 daughters, Chana and Dalia Miller and has lived in Riverdale for 20 years. |
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Rachel Mesch is associate professor of French at Yeshiva University, where she directs the YC Core curriculum. She is the author of Having It All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women's Magazines Invented the Modern Woman (Stanford UP, 2013) and The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle (Vanderbilt UP 2006). She lives in Riverdale with her husband Eric Fisher three children, Abby, Eliza and Sammy. |
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Debbie Jonas is the mother of nine children, and the grandmother (so far!) of ten. When her youngest child was in kindergarten, she fulfilled a lifelong dream, and returned to law school. She graduated Cardozo in 2010, clerked for a Federal Judge, and now works in a legal clinic for poor and homeless people in the Bronx. |
With courage and generosity, 52 authors from around the world reflect upon their experiences of mourning. Kaddish Women’s Voices explores what the recitation of Kaddish meant to different women, most of whom made a daily commitment to say it. They share their relationships with the family members they lost and what it meant to move on, how they struggled to balance the competing demands of childrearing, work, and grief, what they learned about tradition and themselves, and the disappointments and particular challenges they confronted as women.
Hear Bayit panelists Debbie Jonas, Dr. Rachel Mesch ,Dr. Chaya Gorsetman, and Amy Koplow all contributors to the National Jewish Book Award winning “Kaddish: Women’s Voices”. Moderated by editors: Michal Smart and Barbara Ashkenas.
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