Living Midrash Programs
Selected Courses & Presentations
2002
Course:
The Snake Was Right (You Shall be as Gods): Generativity, the Sacred and our Search for Immortality,
National Havurah Committee Summer Institute,
at Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH.
Course:
Bibliodrama Intensive: A Training in Improvisational Communal Exegesis,
Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC.
Workshops:
Drinking From Miriam's Well
Curiouser & Curiouser: The Midrashic Case of Joseph's Coat,
Professional Growth Day, Principle's Cooperative Exchange of Central NJ,
East Brunswick, NJ.
2001
Ner Tamid Scholar-in-Residence:
Generational Change: From Lech Lecha to Machpela,
Congregation Beth Ahabah, Richmond, VA.
Training:
Essentials of Bibliodrama Directing, co-taught with Amy Clarkson,
ICM Summer Training Institute, at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA.
Evening Program:
Gan Eden/Emerging,
Jewish Renewal Life Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Keynote:
The Power of Story,
Professional Growth Day, Principle's Cooperative Exchange of Central NJ,
East Brunswick, NJ.
2000
Keynote:
Building Our Tribal Home;
Classes:
Teacher Self-Care
Reading Midrashically: The Fine & Contradictory Arts of Curiosity & Subversion,
National CAJE Conference, at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
Course:
Bibliodrama Intensive: A Training in Improvisational Communal Exegesis,
Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC.
Scholar-in-Residence:
Explorations of Contemporary Midrash,
Congregation Tikvat Israel, Rockville, MD.
Presentation:
Miriam Transforming,
Redbank Chapter of Hadassah, Redbank, NJ.
Educators' Workshop:
Introduction to Contemporary Midrash,
Metuchen, NJ.
Adult Ed. Workshop:
Generation to Generation,
Main Line Reform Temple, Penn Valley, PA.
1999
Presentation:
Living Midrash,
Havurah! of South Florida, Miami, FL.
Course:
The Voice Beyond and Within: Midrashic Encounters with the Eternal Miriam,
ALEPH Kallah, Corvallis, WA.
Training:
Advanced Bibliodrama, co-taught with Peter Pitzele,
ICM Summer Institute, at Camp Isabella Freedman, Falls Village, CT.
Course:
Bibliodrama Intensive: A Training in Improvisational Communal Exegesis,
Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC.
Course:
Dis/Continuity: The Text, Woman & Leadership Transformed,
CAJE Text Kallah, La Jolla, CA.
1998
Workshops:
Three Encounters with Miriam,
National CAJE Conference, at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX.
Training:
Advanced Bibliodrama Training co-taught with Peter Pitzele,
ICM Summer Institute, Accord, NY.
Shavuot/Summer Institute Scholar-in-Residence:
Returning to the Mountain,
Congregation B'nai Havurah (Denver, CO), at Snow Mountain Ranch, CO.
Intergenerational Workshops:
Living Midrash,
LAJE, at JCC, Lancaster, PA.
Senior Adult Kallah Scholar-in-Residence:
A Weekend with Joseph,
Congregation BJBE, (Clearview, IL) at Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute,
Oconomowoc, WI.
Senior Adult Education Presenter:
Living Sacred Text,
Daroff Campus Speakers Forum, Congregation Adath Jeshurun, Elkins Park, PA.
Torathon Presentation:
Sarah & Hagar; Isaac & Ishmael,
Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El, Wynnewood, PA.
1997
Intensive Training:
Bibliodramatic Techniques for Teachers,
1997 National CAJE Conference, at Stanford University, CA.
Course:
At the Table of Peace Will be Served the Bread of Justice: Joseph and His Family Redeemed,
ALEPH Kallah, Ft. Collins, CO.
Training:
Bibliodrama Directing,
ICM Summer Training Institutes, Accord, NY.
Pre-Pesach Seminar:
Preparing for Exodus,
Town & Country Synagogue, New York, NY.
Three Bibliodramatic Chugim & an Endnote:
On the Road (Ruth),
Under the Mask (Esther),
A Time to Every Purpose (Ecclesiastes),
No Before or After,
Family Education Day: The Five Megillot, Congregation Kodimah, Springfield, MA.
Scholar-in-Residence & Teacher Training:
Journeys, Community & Leadership,
Temple Beth El, Portland, ME.
1996
Adult Education Course:
Living Midrash: Bibliodramatic Encounters with the Book of Genesis,
Germantown Jewish Centre, Philadelphia, PA.
Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class:
Isaac, Rebecca & Sons,
Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, NY.
D'var Torah:
Three Generations: Preparing for Exodus,
Women's Tefillah Group, Adas Kodesch Congregation, Wilmington, DE.
Plenary Session:
The Power of Speech: Lashon Hara/Lashon Tov,
Jewish Funders Network Shabbaton, Santa Monica, CA.
Leadership Session:
Lech Lecha: leadership & Transition,
General Assembly CJF, Seattle,WA.
Opening Program:
Home, Institution, Government: Joseph as Leader,
International Leaders Assembly, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations, NY.
Course:
The White Fire: Four Midrashic Doorways,
NHC Summer Institute, Hood College, MD.
Training:
Bibliodrama Directing,
ICM Summer Training Institute, Accord, NY.
Congregational Retreat Scholar-in-Residence:
The Book of Ruth and the Encounter with Other: Mirror and Window for the Self,
Cong. Adath Jeshurun (Louisville, KY), at Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell, IN.
1995
Course:
Whose Final Victory?: Toward Healing our Holocaust Wounds,
NHC Summer Institute, Hartford, CT.
Workshop:
Materialization of Spirit/Spiritualization of Matter,
ALEPH Kallah, Ft. Collins, CO.
