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Jewish Approaches to Israeli Minorities Part 4: Refugees: Then and Now

Introduction

Five-part series on Am I my Brother’s Keeper? Jewish Approaches to Israeli Minorities. This lecture is taught by Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy who will discuss Refugees: Then and Now. We take a closer look at Jewish texts in order to thoughtfully consider the conditions of the over 50,000 Sudanese and Eritrean refugees who are currently in Israel, and to the global refugee crisis, in general. What are our obligations, from a Jewish perspective?

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Meesh Hammer-Kossoy

Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy is Director of the Year Program and Rosh Beit Midrash at Pardes, where she has taught since 1999. Originally from Washington, D.C., Meesh is a Pardes alumna herself, attending the Year Program in 1991-1992. Meesh holds degrees from Brandeis University and New York University, and received Orthodox ordination from Beit Midrash Har’el in 2015.

Meesh previously taught at NYU, Drisha, and Midreshet Lindenbaum. She has received multiple fellowships, including from ATID, the Memorial Foundation, and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Despite having written her doctoral dissertation about criminal punishment in the Talmudic period, Meesh is known by her husband and three children as a lover of mercy and kindness.

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