Date & Time of Workshop: Tues. Jan. 10, 2023 7:30-8:45pm (mountain)
Three of our 2023 musmakhimot will present aspects of current halakhic ethical quandaries we face as rabbis. R. Deni Marshall will discuss cancel culture. R. Alan Levin will speak about being a rabbi in the boardroom of secular corporations. R. Cat Zavis' topic will be speaking truth and politics from the bimah. Questions and a moderated discussion will follow. We will consider, as an ancillary text, the rabbinic principle “shitika k’hoda’a damya” – silence is considered as admission/consent.
Facilitators:
Rabbi Simcha Daniel Burstyn has been a member of Kibbutz Lotan since 1990. He splits his time between physical and spiritual service. He received Smicha as Rabbi from the AOP in 2011, Mashpia' in 2012, and Dayan in 2017. In addition to OHALAH, he is an active member of Rabbis for Human Rights and the Israeli Reform Rabbinical Association. As Regional Rabbi for the Reform Movement, he teaches youth and adults in the kibbutz and in the Arava Region. His special focus is Judaism and Ecology. Rabbi Daniel Burstyn, Regional Rabbi, Hevel Eilot.
Rabbi SaraLeya Schley was ordained in 2005 by the ALEPH Ordination Program, for which she currently teaches the Integral Halakha Teshuva Workshop. She authored a 2020 responsum about Medical Assistance in Dying that was published by the Integral Halachah Institute and is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Hartman Institute. A resident of Sparks, NV, she is mother to 3 and savta to 4. She continues to be involved with various Renewal communities, including Chochmat HaLev and Wilderness Torah, as an adjunct leader, teacher and elder.
Presenters:
Rabbi Deni Deutsch Marshall is thrilled to be a newly ordained Rabbi through ALEPH. Deni is a licensed clinical social worker who has been in private practice as a therapist for 29 years. In 2011 she became a mashpia through the Morei Derekh Jewish Spiritual Direction Program. A few years later Deni became a Jewish Meditation teacher through the Institute of Jewish Spirituality, and a Mussar Facilitator trained through The Mussar Institute. In her local community in Sacramento, CA, Deni leads spiritual direction groups and meditation groups as well as facilitates Mussar vaads. She also leads a monthly Jewish Renewal style Shabbat morning service at her home synagogue. Deni lives with her husband and two cats and is the proud savta of three young grandchildren with whom she is very involved. During her studies in ALEPH, Deni wrote a responsa paper on the halacha surrounding cancel culture,
which she’ll be referring to in today’s panel discussion.
R. Alan Levin
R. Cat Zavis
Three of our 2023 musmakhimot will present aspects of current halakhic ethical quandaries we face as rabbis. R. Deni Marshall will discuss cancel culture. R. Alan Levin will speak about being a rabbi in the boardroom of secular corporations. R. Cat Zavis' topic will be speaking truth and politics from the bimah. Questions and a moderated discussion will follow. We will consider, as an ancillary text, the rabbinic principle “shitika k’hoda’a damya” – silence is considered as admission/consent.
Facilitators:
Rabbi Simcha Daniel Burstyn has been a member of Kibbutz Lotan since 1990. He splits his time between physical and spiritual service. He received Smicha as Rabbi from the AOP in 2011, Mashpia' in 2012, and Dayan in 2017. In addition to OHALAH, he is an active member of Rabbis for Human Rights and the Israeli Reform Rabbinical Association. As Regional Rabbi for the Reform Movement, he teaches youth and adults in the kibbutz and in the Arava Region. His special focus is Judaism and Ecology. Rabbi Daniel Burstyn, Regional Rabbi, Hevel Eilot.
Rabbi SaraLeya Schley was ordained in 2005 by the ALEPH Ordination Program, for which she currently teaches the Integral Halakha Teshuva Workshop. She authored a 2020 responsum about Medical Assistance in Dying that was published by the Integral Halachah Institute and is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Hartman Institute. A resident of Sparks, NV, she is mother to 3 and savta to 4. She continues to be involved with various Renewal communities, including Chochmat HaLev and Wilderness Torah, as an adjunct leader, teacher and elder.
Presenters:
Rabbi Deni Deutsch Marshall is thrilled to be a newly ordained Rabbi through ALEPH. Deni is a licensed clinical social worker who has been in private practice as a therapist for 29 years. In 2011 she became a mashpia through the Morei Derekh Jewish Spiritual Direction Program. A few years later Deni became a Jewish Meditation teacher through the Institute of Jewish Spirituality, and a Mussar Facilitator trained through The Mussar Institute. In her local community in Sacramento, CA, Deni leads spiritual direction groups and meditation groups as well as facilitates Mussar vaads. She also leads a monthly Jewish Renewal style Shabbat morning service at her home synagogue. Deni lives with her husband and two cats and is the proud savta of three young grandchildren with whom she is very involved. During her studies in ALEPH, Deni wrote a responsa paper on the halacha surrounding cancel culture,
which she’ll be referring to in today’s panel discussion.
R. Alan Levin
R. Cat Zavis
