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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T201500
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URL:https://www.wjcouncil.org/events/yinr-womens-initiative-for-jewish-stu
 dies-to-bring-dr-beth-a-berkowitz-via-zoom/
SUMMARY:YINR - Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies to Bring Dr. Beth A.
 Berkowitz via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at Young Israel
 of New Rochelle is proud to present Dr. Beth A. Berkowitz on Tuesday\,
 January 27\, 2026 @ 8:15 pm (ET) on Zoom.  Dr. Berkowitz will be the
 fourth speaker of the 2025-2026 season in the monthly scholarly programming
 offered by WIJS at YINR.\n\nBerkowitz’s lecture is entitled\, “What Do
 Animals Teach Us about Families? Four Biblical Laws about Animal Parents
 and Children.”   Families are sometimes tragically separated by war and
 migration. But what about the animal families that are routinely
 separated by agriculture and development? What is the impact on them\, on
 us\, and on the planet? Moving beyond debates about the ethics of eating
 animals to focus instead on animals' relationships with each other\, the
 lecture will explore the four “animal family” laws of the Torah
 alongside their rabbinic interpreters from ancient times to today.\n\nDr.
 Beth A. Berkowitz is Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor
 in the Department of Religion at Barnard College. She is the author
 of Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and
 Christian Cultures (Oxford University Press\, 2006)\; Defining Jewish
 Difference: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge University Press\,
 2012)\; Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud (Cambridge
 University Press\, 2018)\; and What Animals Teach Us about Families:
 Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature (University of
 California Press\, forthcoming 2026). She is co-editor of Religious
 Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation (Routledge\, 2017). Her area of
 specialization is classical rabbinic literature\, and her interests include
 animal studies\, Jewish difference\, rabbinic legal authority\, and Bible
 reception history.\n\nAll WIJS programming is open to women and men. 
 Please visit https://www.yinr.org/wijs.html  to view the complete WIJS
 2025-26 schedule.  For more information\, to be added to the WIJS email
 list\, or for Zoom information\, please call 914-636-2215 or
 email: wijs@yinr.org.  Individuals on the WIJS mailing list will
 automatically receive the Zoom information.
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