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URL:https://www.hebrewcongregationchautauqua.org/events/rabbi-elyse-goldst
 ein-for-heavens-sake-ancient-wisdom-modern-conflict/
SUMMARY:Rabbi Elyse Goldstein - “For Heaven’s Sake: Ancient Wisdom - Mo
 dern Conflict”
DESCRIPTION:Rabbi Elyse Goldstein is founding Rabbi of City Shul in Toronto
  and before that was the Rabbinic Director of Kolel: The Adult Centre for 
 Liberal Jewish Learning where she served as its principal teacher for twen
 ty years.\n\nShe broke the “stained glass ceiling” right after her ord
 ination upon her arrival to Toronto in 1983\, as the only female Rabbi in 
 all of Canada. She was quickly recognized as a fiery speaker\, skilled tea
 cher and social justice advocate. After her first position as Assistant Ra
 bbi at Canada’s largest synagogue of 5\,000 families (Holy Blossom Templ
 e) she founded Kolel: The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning\, an ad
 ult education institute recognized a leader in Jewish adult education\, an
 d was awarded the most prestigious prize in Jewish education\, the interna
 tionally recognized Covenant Award for Exceptional Jewish Educators\, as a
  result of that work\, in 2005.\n\nShe was the first woman to be elected a
 s president of the interdenominational Toronto Board of Rabbis and was one
  of seven women featured in the Canadian National Film Board documentary\,
  “Half the Kingdom.” Her first book\, ReVisions: Seeing Torah through 
 a Feminist Lens\, won the Canadian National Jewish Book Awards in the fie
 ld of Bible. Her second and third books\,The Women’s Torah Commentary\, 
 and The Women’s Haftarah Commentary were the first Bible commentaries 
 in history written by female Rabbis. Her fourth book\, New Jewish Feminis
 m: Probing the Past\, Forging the Future won finalist in The National Jew
 ish Book Awards. She is a blogger for The Times of Israel and HuffPost.\n\
 nRabbi Goldstein acted in the theatre from 2017-2019 inThe Clergy Project\
 , an award-winning show she wrote together with a priest and a minister\,
  about being clergy in the 21st century.  This touching and funny piece w
 on them Best of The Fringe Theatre Festival in Toronto.\n\nShe graduated S
 umma Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University in 1978\, earni
 ng her master’s degree from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Rel
 igion in 1981 before ordination in 1983\, and receiving their Doctor of Di
 vinity\, honoris causis in 2008. In 2013 she was named one of America’s 
 50 Most Influential Rabbis by The Forward and in May 2017 she was awarded 
 Doctor of Laws Honoris Causis from Ryerson University in recognition of he
 r path-breaking work in Canada.\n\nShe was honored to be a Chautauqua 2PM 
 Hall of Philosophy speaker in week 8 of the summer season last year and is
  a Jewish representative on Chautauqua’s new “Future of the Abrahamic 
 Mission Council”.
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CATEGORIES:Shirley Lazarus Speaker Series
LOCATION:Smith Wilkes Hall\, 21 Foster Avenue\, Chautauqua\, NY\, 14722\, U
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