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Sharon Weiss-Greenberg

Sharon Weiss-Greenberg is the Director of Development at ELI Talks.  She is the former Executive Director of JOFA.  She was recently named by the Jewish Forward as a "Forward 50" Jew of influence and by the Jewish Week as a person to watch as a "36 Under 36" honoree. Sharon has served as the Rosh Moshava (Head of Camp) at Camp Stone, as the co-director  of the Orthodox Union Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Harvard Hillel and as the first Orthodox woman chaplain at Harvard University. She has taught at Yeshiva University High School for Girls, Yavneh Academy in New Jersey, and the Denver Academy of Torah High School. Sharon earned her doctorate at NYU. She is an alumna of the Wexner Fellow/Davidson Scholarship graduate program, and ROI Community Member. She studied at The Drisha Institute for Jewish Education and received her B.A. and M.A. from Yeshiva University.

ARTICLE (Reprinted from The Times of Israel)

The Yom Kippur Diet: Mom Edition

by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
October 6, 2016

Categories: High Holidays, Holidays, Holidays, Women's Forum
ARTICLE (Reprinted from MyJewishLearning.com)

Rosh Hashanah from the Other Side

by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
October 5, 2016

Categories: High Holidays, Holidays, Holidays, Modern Judaism, Women's Forum
ARTICLE (Reprinted from MyJewishLearning.com)

Dare to Bare Those Ankles

by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
September 22, 2016

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ARTICLE (Reprinted from MyJewishLearning.com)

Extremism Works Both Ways

by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
August 25, 2016

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ARTICLE (Reprinted from JTA)

No, rabbi, ‘traditional’ women are not immune from rape

by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
April 15, 2016

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ARTICLE (Reprinted from MyJewishLearning.com)

Voting with Our Feet: Heeding the Call of ORA’s Rabbi Jeremy Stern

by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
January 28, 2016

Categories: Uncategorized
ARTICLE (Reprinted from MyJewishLearning.com)

For the Sin We Have Sinned…

by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
September 22, 2015

Categories: High Holidays, Holidays, Women's Forum
ARTICLE (Reprinted from Forward.com)

Are Religious Women Treated As Second-Class Feminists?

by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
September 3, 2015

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ARTICLE (Reprinted from The New York Jewish Week)

Mikveh Needs to be a Safe Place

by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
October 21, 2014

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ARTICLE (Reprinted from The Times of Israel)

Shaping the Present in Light of Our Past

by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
July 14, 2013

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