Dr Tanya White
Dr. Tanya White is a lecturer of Tanach and Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University and serves as a senior lecturer at the Matan Women's Institute of Torah Learning and the London School of Jewish Studies. She was appointed a Sacks Scholar in the inaugural cohort of the Rabbi Sacks Scholars programme.
Tanya is also the founder and host of the podcast series: Books and Beyond: The Rabbi Sacks Audio-Series with Tanya White. Tanya lives with her husband and four daughters in a moshav in central Israel.
Speaker Profile
Some of Dr White’s most popular speaking themes and topics include:
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“God will not save us”: The Radical Responsibility of Rabbi Sacks
- Contemplating the covenant idea in Rabbi Sacks thought
- When ‘I’ become ‘We’: The role of the ‘Other’ in the thought of Rabbi Sacks
- Was Avraham right to listen to God? ‘Yirat Elokim’ as the Development of a Moral Conscience
- Eyes and Cries of the ‘Other’ in Torah: On Empathy, Pluralism and Particularity
- Individuality v Individualism; Unity v Uniformity: From the Tower of Bavel to Sefer Bamidbar
- Jacob, Joseph, and the role of liminal space in character transformation
Location:
Azriel , Israel
Languages:
- English
- Hebrew
Availability:
- Online events
- Travel locally
- Travel internationally
Topics:
- About Rabbi Sacks
- Ethics and Morality
- Faith and Resilience
- Holocaust
- Jewish Education
- Jewish Values and Identity
- Leadership and Responsibility
- Rabbi Sacks’ Books
- Social Justice and Tikkun Olam
- Torah
- Women in Judaism
Audiences:
- Yeshiva/Seminary
- University
- Youth and Young Adults
- Cross Communal
- Interfaith and Multicultural
- Professional and Corporate
- Academic and Scholarly
- Government and Policy Makers
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