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
On Shavuot, we celebrate the giving of the Torah at Sinai. But why were the Jews the ones to receive it? The sages offered two opposing answers. Channa Pinchasi explores these two viewpoints and talks about what it means to be worthy of receiving the Torah.
