Dr. Orit Avnery is a Research Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at Shalom Hartman Institute and a graduate of the Hartman Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis, where she received ordination in 2018. She is a lecturer in Bible and Dean of Students at Shalem College, and holds both a BA and an MA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD in Bible Studies from Bar-Ilan University, where her dissertation was entitled
The Book of Judges: Society in Danger, Leadership in Crisis
In this two-part elective, Orit Avnery offers a close reading of the Book of Judges revealing a society in danger, leadership in crisis and families on the brink of collapse.
This Rabbinic elective was part of our Hartman@Home fall 2020 learning.
