This special event was taught by Rabbi Dr. Meesh Hammer-Kossoy. The second lecture will be part of Pardes’s Purim 3-Part series, on February 27 with “And Esther was Taken” (Esther 2:8): Sexuality, Consent Culture and Trafficking For more information and registration.
The People Have Spoken: Gay Marriage, Female Orthodox Rabbis and Disability – Can “the Rabbis” Step Up?
Introduction
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.