Hanukah 5783: Deborah and Judith: How Our Heroines Harmonize Across a Millennium

Introduction

During a holiday where there is both darkness and light, where we retreat indoors and shine brightly from the windowsill, go on a journey with Pardes North America to find meaning in the discord within our tradition.

Night 7* – Deborah and Judith: How Our Heroines Harmonize Across a Millennium
Featuring Aviva Lauer
Who was Judith and what does she have to do with Hanukah? And if we listen closely, might we hear her harmonize along with Deborah the Prophetess, who sang her own song a thousand years earlier than Judith did?

 

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*This podcast is being published before the 7th night of Hanukah in order to allow you to listen to it before Shabbat.

Music Credits: Klezmer by Crowander is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Aviva Lauer

Aviva Lauer is the Chief Education and Educational Training Officer at Pardes. Originally from Silver Spring, MD, she has lived in Israel for over 30 years. Aviva holds a Masters in Jewish Studies, with a specialization in Midrash, from Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies.

Aviva has decades of experience in curriculum development, classroom teaching, school administration and educational consulting. She served as the head of the department of Jewish Studies at Immanuel College, London, preceding her joining Pardes in 2009. Aviva is an avid Anglophile, and also speaks elementary Arabic and Yiddish.