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Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future

Are My Prayers for Israel, or Are Israel’s Prayers For Me?

What should the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora look and feel like?
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Rabbi Dr. Sigalit Ur co-leads the Israeli Rabbis Network, a pluralistic network of rabbis from all denominations. Sigalit is a research fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and was David Hartman Center fellow, and a fellow of the third cohort of Maskilot. She is a graduate of the Institute and Ha’Midrasha Be’Oranim’s Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis, where she received ordination in 2018. She received her PhD in

Are My Prayers for Israel, or Are Israel’s Prayers For Me?

What should the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora look and feel like? The contours of that relationship have long been a negotiation.

Sigalit Ur looks at the ways the rabbis navigated the question of when and where to pray for rain to develop a richer vocabulary for thinking about the future between Jews living in Israel and around the world.

NOTE: This program was part of our Summer 2021 Virtual Symposium,  Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future

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