The Westchester Community for Humanistic Judaism Invites the public to a presentation of Stav Appel’s The Torah in the Tarot. Stav will argue his provocative thesis that the original Tarot de Marseille, from 17th century Paris, was created as a secret tool for Jewish continuity in response to the 250-year-long banishment of Jews from France. Hear the theory, see the cards, and reach your own conclusions.
For more on this topic, see this article in Judaica in Spotlight and Jewish Boston.