God, Gender, and Justice: A Seattle Shabbaton
$85
at Bet Alef-Seattle, WA
Queen Anne United Methodist Church
Bellevue, WA
November 12-13, 2010
Seattle, WA
Faculty
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, is an innovative leader in ecumenical dialogue and founder of the Jewish Renewal and Spiritual Eldering movements.He was ordained in the Chassidic lineage of the Lubavitch in 1947. He later received a Master of Arts degree in the Psychology of Religion in 1956 from Boston University and a Doctor of Hebrew Letters degree from Hebrew Union College in 1968.Throughout his long career, Reb Zalman has been an unending resource for the world religious community. He is, today, one of the world’s foremost authorities and an active teacher of Hasidism and Jewish Mysticism.
Jay Michaelson
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Jay Michaelson is the author of three books and two hundred articles about the intersections of religion, sexuality, and law. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, is completing his Ph.D. in Jewish Thought at Hebrew University, and is the founder of Nehirim, now the leading national provider of community programming for LGBT Jews, partners, and allies. Recently named to the “Forward 50†list of the most innovative Jewish leaders in America, Jay is a columnist for the Forward, Huffington Post, and Tikkun, and has held teaching positions at Boston University Law School and Yale. His work on behalf of LGBT people in faith communities has been covered by the New York Times, NPR, and CNN. Jay’s most recent book is “Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism†(Shambhala, 2009), and his next one is “The Religious Case for Gay Rights†(Beacon, 2011).
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Yael Sachs
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Yael Sachs was born in Israel, raised in Japan, and currently resides in Seattle. Her career has spanned hi-tech, non-profits and international development, and through it all, her biggest passions remain teaching and learning. Her role as an educator has spanned four years teaching in the Women’s Studies Program at Haifa University, a two year stint teaching gender awareness workshops in Kosovo and Macedonia, and guest lecturing at numerous venues and conferences in Israel, Europe and the US on sexuality, gender identity and politics, femme lesbianism and alternative lifestyles. Yael firmly believes that both gender and spirituality must be deconstructed by each person and then reconstructed in a personal and often fluid context that evolves and grows as we do.
Terri O’Fallon, PhD is a specialist in transformative learning and change in human systems and in distance learning. She has over 25 years of experience working with many different kinds of human systems, including business, community, educational and political. She has a Ph.D. in Integral Studies, concentrating in “Learning and Change in Human Systems” and she is a certified scorer of the Leadership Development Framework. Terri is presently a principal at Pacific Integral whose focus is to develop support for the relief of suffering on our planet and bring together people who are willing to experiment with new integral structures for realizing transformative change in evolutionary systems.
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