Lectures

 

To book speaking engagements with Yael Kanarek and/or Tamar Biala

Upcoming:

  • February-May, 2024: Exhibition and lectures at Central Synagogue, New York.

  • September 1-4, 2023: LimmudFest, Atlanta.

  • March 26, 2023: “My Beloved is Mine and I am Hers: The Shepherdess in the Lilies,” with Tamar Biala & Yael Kanarek, B’nai Jeshurun, New York.

  • March 22 & 24: Temple Adath Or, Florida.

Past:

  • February 16, 2023: Hannah Senesh Community Day School, third grade students, Brooklyn.

  • December 22, 2022: 12-sessions Toratah course at UnYeshivah.

  • December 22, 2022: “Intro to Toratah,” Israeli Bronfman Fellows, 14StreetY, New York.

  • November 28, 2022: Intro to Toratah @ Dr. Felicia Kornbluh’s class, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Vermont.

  • November 28, 2022: Hillel, Prof. Erica Andrus, University of Vermont.

  • November 27, 2022: Temple Sinai, Rabbi David Edleson, Vermont.

  • November 16&18, 2022: Temple Adath Or, Rabbi Marc Labowitz, Florida.

  • October 22, 2022: Chevrutah with Rabbi Eugene Fleischman Sotirescu.

  • September 17, 2022: Slichot @ Barnert Temple, Rabbi Rachel Steiner, New Jersey.

  • June 25, 2022: Barnert Temple, Rabbi Rachel Steiner, New Jersey.

  • June 5, 2022: Toratah @ UnYeshivah, ShavuotLIVE.

  • June 4, 2022: Yael Kanarek featured speaker, Leil Shavuot, Rabbi Marc Katz, Temple Ner Tamid, New Jersey.

  • June 4, 2022: “Book of Rea,” Congregation Beth Hatikvah, Connecticut.

  • May 4, 2022: Guest at Jericho Vincent’s class at UnYeshivah.

  • April 28, 2022: Meeting with Tmurah Fellows, Israeli Secular Judaism.

  • April 12, 2022: “How to Survive Passover,” Neve Schechter, Tel Aviv.

  • April 4, 2022: “Intro to Toratah,” Israeli Bronfman Fellows, 14StreetY, New York.

  • March 29, 2022: “Her Exodus: A Passover Exploration,” Rabbi Roly Matalon, Rabbi Felicia Sol, B’nai Jeshurun, New York.

  • March 13, 2022: “The Scroll of Mordekhai: Everything Upside Down,” Rabbi Roly Matalon, Rabbi Felicia Sol, B’nai Jeshurun, New York.

  • March 2, 2022: Toratah @ Rabbi Rachel Putterman class at Hebrew College.

  • January 15, 2022: Barnert Temple, Rabbi Rachel Steiner, New Jersey.

  • November 12&17, 2021: Temple Adath Or, Rabbi Marc Labowitz, Florida.

  • October 2, 2021: Congregation Beth Hatikvah, Connecticut.

  • September 27, 2021: Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, “Switching Gender in the Torah: What We Reveal by Changing the Perspective,” Tamar Biala and Yael Kanarek.

  • June 12, 2021: Limmud OZ, Yael Kanarek, featured presenter.

  • May 19, 2021: Introduction to Toratah, BEKI, Connecticut.

  • May 17, 2021: Introduction to Toratah at Temple Beth-El with Rabbi Michael Knopf.

  • April 11, 2021: Dr. Lisa Fishbayn Joffe at Brandeis University, class visit with Tamar Biala.

  • March 17, 2021: Toratah Study at Temple Adath Or.

  • February 24, 2021: Maharat fellows and Dr. Erin Leib Smokler: Reading of Megillat Mordecai with Tamar Biala.

  • December 27, 2020: LimmudUK, lecture, ״Toratah, The Regendered Bible.״

  • December 20, 2020: Joint Mincha Service with Temple Adath Or with Rabbi Marc Labowitz, honoring founder Rabbi Shoni Labowitz.

  • November 15, 2020: “Her Holy Names concert,” co-hosts: Rabbi Goldie Milgram, Geela Rayzel, Sarah Ross

  • October 11, 2020: Simchat Toratah, Inauguration of Beit Toratah with a mincha service.

  • September 19, 2020: First day of Rosh Hashanah at Romemu (NYC), Rabbi David Ingber pays tribute to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, followed by Aliya from Toratah with Rabbi Mira Rivera.

  • August 28, 2020: Ki Teszii Portion, a discussion and two aliyot with Rabbi David Ingber at Romemu (2:20:40 min)

  • August 28, 2020: Pinhasah Portion with Rabbi Mira Rivera

  • June 30, 2020: LABA Pride, The Regendered Bible presentation to LABA International on Zoom

  • June 20, 2020: Pride Shabbat three aliyot at Romemu with Rabbi Mira Rivera

  • May 28, 2020: Tikkun Leil Shavuot at the JCC Manhattan on Zoom — following Moshah the Prophetess from birth to death

  • May 23, 2020: Shacharit with aliyot guests: Recording of the Shacharit with Rabbi Emily Cohen, Rabbi Mira Rivera, and Rabbi Michael Bernstein follow by a study of BaMidbar portion at Temple Beit Ora, led by Rabbi Gilah Caine, Edmonton, Alberta

  • April 20: The first draft of the Torah / Five Books of Moshah are complete

  • April 19, 2020: Rev. Amanda Hambrick Ashcraft of Middle Church in the East Village gave the first sermon ever with verses 2:15-25 from the Regendered Bible.

  • April 5, 2020: Zoom conversation with Tamar Biala’s Israeli Torah study group in Boston

  • February 4-March 8, 2020: Exhibition and seminar at the HUC-JIR New York campus, with Dean and Rabbi David Adelson

  • February 15, 2020: Regendered Torah Move-meant workshop with Yonathan Arnon, 14StreetY

  • March 9, 2020: Lab/Shul's Prophetic Post-Patriarchy Purim Performance Party (PPPPPPurim) featuring with Megillat Mordechai, MC

  • December 28: Romemu Kohenet Shabbat service, Miketz Portion, with rabbi Jill Hammer, third aliya for Regendered Genesis 41:8-16

  • November 17, 10am LimmudBoston

  • November 9, 2019: SoulSpa with Lab/Shul at Romemu Center - First Aliyah with the Regendered Bible

  • LimmudFest Atlanta Labor Day Weekend, 2019:

    • Group reading and discussion

    • Lecture on fine art and visual midrashim practice

  • August 16, 8:30-10:30, 2019: Oneg Shabbat at Romemu Center exhibition & conversation with Rabbi David Ingber

  • August 3, 12:30-2:30, 2019: Romemu Shabbat Lunch and group reading

  • Fort Tyron Jewish Center, Tikkun Leil Shavuot with Rabbi Guy Austrian, 2019

  • Tikkun Leil Shavout, 14StreetY, 2019

  • Sunday, Nov 18, 3-6 pm: Exodus Hackathon - regendering Exodus in English collaboratively

  • Tikkun Shavuot, 2018 with Rabbi Marisa James at the 14StreetY

  • Various group reading in private homes