Teaching

Upcoming Lectures and Classes

• “Bodies in [E]motion: Affect and Rabbinic Ritual Law,” Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, December 4, 2024

Selected Course Syllabi

• The Emotional World of the Bavli
• Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
• Methods for Reading Gender in Rabbinic Literature
• What is Canon?

Past Community Lectures and Classes

• “Responding to Change: Lessons from Tisha B’av,” Shalom Hartman Institute Ideas for Today, August 2024, with Dr. Benjamin Sommer
• “Between Law and Narrative in the Talmud,” Jewish Theological Seminary, Zoom, February 20243
• “What’s Love Got to Do With It: The Role of Emotions in Biblical and Rabbinic Texts and Implications for Contemporary Discourse,” Hartman Virtual Rabbinic Torah Seminar, Zoom, July 2021
• “What Questions are Out of Bounds,” Hartman Virtual Symposium, Zoom, July 2021
• “Agency in the #MeToo Moment,” Kehilat Hadar, High Holidays 2018

Podcasts

What Now? A JTS Podcast: On A Scale of One to Ten

Coursera

The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction

Jewish Ritual

Find me on My Jewish Learning demonstrating how to say the blessings for ritual handwashing, donning a tallit, lighting Shabbat candles, and the shehechiyanu; and how to sing birkat hamazon (grace after meals), Avinu Malkeinu, Sim Shalom, El Male Rachamim, Yigdal, Musaf kedushah, and Aleinu.