Channa Pinchasi
Dr. Channa Pinchasi is Deputy Director of Be’eri and Director of the Be’eri School for Teacher Education at the Shalom Hartman Institute. She is a member of the inaugural graduating class of the Institute’s Maskilot program. She received her PhD in gender studies from Bar-Ilan University, where her thesis offered a feminist interpretation of Midrash Eicha Rabba. From 2001-2004, Channa was a representative of the Education Department of the Jewish Agency in Canada. Upon returning to
For Israel’s 72nd Independence Day, Dr. Channa Pinchasi discusses how Modern Hebrew has adapted a “holy language” to an everyday use that extends far beyond anything ever dreamt of by Theodor Herzl.
