Torah Study with Rabbi Lisa Grushcow
Torah Study with Rabbi Lisa Grushcow
"The Strange Case of the Suspected Wife: Text Study of Numbers 5:11-31"
Our 2019 Scholar in Residence sponsored by the Pamela K. Wiles Fund for Interfaith Understanding is Rabbi Lisa Grushcow, an expert in human sexuality and inclusion.
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ABOUT RABBI LISA GRUSHCOW
Rabbi Grushcow is the author of Writing the Wayward Wife: Rabbinic Interpretations of Sotah, and the editor of The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality. She is a contributor to The Torah: A Women’s Commentary and the Torah Treasures videos for children, and is a regular columnist with the Canadian Jewish News.
Rabbi Grushcow received her B.A. from McGill University in 1996. She was then named a Rhodes Scholar and spent three years at Oxford University, where she earned a master’s degree in Judaism and Christianity in the Greco-Roman World, and then a doctorate. She was ordained a rabbi in 2003 at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, where she studied as a Wexner Graduate Fellow. Upon graduation, Rabbi Grushcow joined Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City, where she served as Associate Rabbi. She held this position until July 1, 2012 when she assumed the role of Senior Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal.
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