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Temima Goldberg Shulman, Award winning writer, speaks about “From Tanach to Talmud: The Female Myth vs. The Narrative Truth. What Young Jewish Girls Are Taught About What They Can Get in Love and Marriage, and How We Can Reread the Narratives Into Modern, Relevant, and Healthy Models” at UTJ’s 2016 conference titled, “The Shidduch Crisis & Intermarriage: Finding Love in the Jewish Community.” The conference ran from Sunday, September 10 through Monday, September 11, 2016 and Ms. Goldber Shulman spoke on Sunday, September 10. The conference program, full video of the conference, as well as links to video of other sessions of the conference are available here.
The source sheet for Ms. Goldberg Shulman’s talk is available here.
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Temima Goldberg Shulman is a Jerusalem-born, award winning writer and teacher based in New Jersey. She has taught Bible and Jewish law at New Jersey Jewish high schools and in Israel. She has worked as a daily reporter, a book review columnist, and as an Israel correspondent, interviewing the likes of Yaakov Agam and Yizhak Rabin. As a community activist, 13 years ago she turned her attention to women's issues and healthy sexuality.
Today she writes and speaks about these issues, their origins in the Bible and Talmud, and their application and relevance to modern Jewish life. She is founder and director of the Midrasha in Manhattan, a house of study and culture for Israelis, opening 2017.