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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud
Description: A hybrid event (in-person and virtual) by Gila FineThe event was co-sponsored by The New Shul and BMH-BJAbout The Event: “Women in the Talmud are generally marginal and almost always anonymous – the daughters, sisters, and wives of prominent rabbis. The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic explores the stories of the exceptions, the six named heroines of the Talmud: Yalta the shrew, Homa the femme fatale, Marta the prima donna, Heruta the madonna/whore, Beruria the overreacherix, and Ima Shalom the angel in the house. As their epithets suggest, all of...