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Women’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(26) Exposing and destigmatising sexual abuse, with Shana Aaronson of MagenThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk to learn about our Jewish learning journeys & find something that suits you. This week I am delighted to be joined by Shana Aaronson, Executive Director of Magen, where she first began as Social Services Coordinator, supporting families where children had been physically and sexually abused. Magen is dedicated to creating safer Jewish communities in Israel and around the world by developing and implementing programs that foster transparency, prioritizing the well-being of victims, holding perpetrators accountable, and eliminating the stigma surrounding sexual abuse. Their work...2025-07-2252 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(25) Scaling the heights of halachic scholarship, with Rabbanit Chamutal ShovalThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk/connect to learn about our Jewish learning journeys & find something that suits you. I’m delighted to welcome Rabbanit Chamutal Shoval, Director of the Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halachic Leadership at Midreshet Lindenbaum, and a graduate of its rigorous five‑year program as a Morat Hora’a and Manhiga Ruchanit - empowering women with halachic authority and spiritual leadership and enabling female halachic leaders to claim their place in discourse, advisory roles, synagogues, schools, and more, both in Israel and abroad. She spent two tr...2025-07-0849 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(24) Fighting breast cancer through humour, with Gila PfefferThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk/connect to learn about our Jewish learning journeys & find something that suits you. Gila Pfeffer is an award winning author, breast cancer prevention advocate and mum of four. Her recent book, Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences, was the 2024 winner of the Gilda Women’s Book award and had me laughing hysterically and sobbing in equal measure. She describes it as “about losing both my parents to cancer, trying not to get cancer myself, then getting it anyway”. We a...2025-06-2446 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(23) Finding common ground through feminine traits, with Sharon RosenThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk/connect to learn about our Jewish learning journeys & find something that suits you. Today I’m honoured to welcome Sharon Rosen, a leader in interfaith peace building in Israel and around the world. Sharon served as Search for Common Ground’s Global Director of Religious Engagement from 2017 until recently. She also co-founded and directed Education for Life, an NGO that provides tools for the development and wellbeing of children within state educational systems. She was also a faculty member at the Jeru...2025-06-1048 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(22) Can women do that? Nicole Duke, Kashrut Supervisor & Burial AdvisorThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk/connect to learn about our Jewish learning journeys & find something that suits you. Rabbanit Nicole Duke is not an obvious leader, but her guidance behind the scenes at crucial times and life cycle events helps countless people through both difficult and wonderful times. First she is a shomeret, a kashrut supervisor enabling kosher functions to take place. She is also responsible for the chevra kadisha - the organisation dedicated to caring for the deceased and preparing them for burial - at...2025-05-2742 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(21) Sara Wolkenfeld @ Sefaria: Opening up access to Torah in the digital ageThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk/connect to learn about our Jewish learning journeys & find something that suits you. I learn every day with my chavruta in Israel using Sefaria sources. So I’m delighted to be interviewing Rabbanit Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld, Chief Learning Officer at Sefaria, the online database and interface for Jewish texts. Sara is passionate about Talmud education and about expanding Jewish textual knowledge and its accessibility for all. She writes and teaches widely about Jewish texts and Jewish law, and her current pr...2025-05-1341 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(20) Szonja Komoroczy: Breathing life into Hungary’s enigmatic Jewish communityThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk/connect to learn about our Jewish learning journeys & find something that suits you. What’s it like to be part of the Jewish community in Hungary? Home to the second largest synagogue in the world yet a hidden Jewish population that no-one can count, how does it function and what will its future be? Jewish educator, historian and tour guide Szonja Komoroczy is Vice Rector at the Jewish University of Budapest and has lectured and published extensively in English, Hungarian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. As an educa...2025-04-2942 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(19) Pesach: The power of openness to change, with Tanya WhiteThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk/connect to learn about our Jewish learning journeys & find something that suits you. Dr Tanya White is a much loved teacher at LSJS and Matan, and a lecturer in Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. Tanya lives in Israel with her husband and four girls, and she writes, teaches and lectures on Tanach and Jewish Philosophy. She has a very unique style that is both inspiring and intellectually stimulating and our students here at lsjs.ac.uk love her. I always learn...2025-04-1555 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(18) Strategic investing in Women’s Orthodox Torah Leadership with Ann Pava and Elizabeth WalderToday, we’re live! I’m at the Orthodox Women’s Torah Leadership Convening with Ann Pava and Elizabeth Walder, trailblazers of Jewish philanthropy, strategically growing the field of Orthodox Jewish women’s Torah leadership. As we sit onstage at the Convening that Ann and Elizabeth made happen, they reveal how they choose where to invest, and how they go forward as partners with those organisations lucky enough to receive their help. We marvel at how far this field has come - programmes in learning and leadership that are now available for women an...2025-03-3148 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(17) Suzy Goldberg: Matchmaking in the modern worldThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk/connect to learn about our Jewish learning journeys & find something that suits you. Suzy Goldberg is a pillar of the London community who embodies humble leadership. She’s a mother, grandmother, shadchanit (Jewish matchmaker) and Torah teacher of over 30 years. She’s also a graduate of the LSJS BA and MA degree programmes in Jewish Education and she works today with an organisation called Shidduch.im, the UK’s branch of the fabulously-named Saw You at Sinai Jewish dating app, and she’s e...2025-03-1739 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(16) Hadassah Ben Ari: Connecting with your inner heroThis podcast is powered by LSJS - the London School of Jewish Studies. Connect with our Jewish education courses, tours and events, online and in person, via lsjs.ac.uk/connect. Hadassa and I met over Chanukah when she was in London promoting her new book - a book which has made a huge impression on both me and my daughter. Hadassah started this book project in the wake of October 7th to help parents talk about the trauma of that terrible day, and to cope with the trauma that developed in its wake. Hadassah has emerged...2025-03-0441 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(15) Rebbetzin Dr Hadassah Fromson: Enhancing marriages with psychology and halachaThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk/connect to learn about our Jewish learning journeys & find something that suits you. My dear friend Rebbetzen Dr Hadassah Fromson is rebbetzin of Golders Green United Synagogue here in the UK. She is a counselling psychologist who works with individuals and couples both privately and for Chana, a fertility charity in the UK. She’s also a yoetzet halacha and a teacher here at LSJS. We discuss the importance of strengthening your relationships, and what brings satisfaction - in work, in...2025-02-1842 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(14) Rabbanit Yafit Clymer: Dealing with the emotional fallout of war in schoolThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk for our full Jewish learning programme, including Rabbanit Yafit Clymer, & find something that suits you. How do we help our children cope with the emotional fallout of war? This is just one of Rabbanit Yafit Clymer’s current roles, achieved as Rabbanit Beit Sefer of Midreshet Amit Girls High School in Modiin where, through Yafit’s unique blend of pastoral and spiritual guidance, she’s helping girls deal with loss caused by the war, anger with God, and how to pray in these...2025-02-0448 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(13) Esty Shushan: Choosing the feminism that's right for youEsty is a Chareidi Mizrachi social activist, entrepreneur and trailblazer. We met when she was in London screening Woman of Valour, a documentary film about her life and activism, and I was blown away by her bravery and her achievements. In 2012, she launched No Voice, No Vote, a social media-based protest movement calling on ultra orthodox Chareidi women not to vote for parties that barred women from their ranks, and on the back of that she founded Nivcharot, which raises awareness on women’s rights in Chareidi society. She’s a pioneer estab...2025-01-2136 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(12) Rabbanit Michelle Cohen Farber: Pioneering the women’s Talmud revolutionThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk for our full Jewish learning programme & find something that suits you. Rabbanit Michelle Cohen Farber is the founder of Hadran, advancing Talmud study and Daf Yomi for women. Michelle studied Talmud at Bar Ilan University and at Midreshet Lindenbaum Scholars’ Programme. She’s taught gemara and halacha in Pelech Jerusalem, Midreshset Lindenbaum and Matan Hasharon. Together with her husband, she founded and leads Kehilat Netivot in Ra’anana where they live with their 5 children. We discuss how the anchor...2025-01-0847 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(11) Hadassah Shemtov: The modern-day Sarah Schnierer?This podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk for our full Jewish learning programme & find something that suits you. This week we’re meeting Hadassah Shemtov. Hadassah lives in LA where she teaches Gemara and Chumash to high school girls, particularly within the Chabad community. Hadassah noticed amongst the women in her community an underlying ‘estrangement from the source of our tradition’. She saw that many high school students were unfamiliar with the evolutionary process of halacha and thought it to be arbitrary rules. She found a low2024-12-1840 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(10) Dr. Erica Brown: Directing creative leadership energyThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk for our full Jewish learning programme & find something that suits you. Dr. Erica Brown is Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and Founding Director of its Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership. An award winning author who writes extremely widely on Jewish Ethics, Bible and leadership, Erica’s new book, Morning has Broken: Faith after October 7th is out now. Previously she served as the director of the Mayberg Centre for Jewish Education and Leadership and was Associa...2024-12-0446 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(9) Sarah-Jane Landsman: How to lead a kibbutz in exileThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit lsjs.ac.uk for our full Jewish learning programme & find something that suits you. This week I’m delighted and humbled to have with me Sarah-Jane Landsman of Kibbutz Alumim. In 2022, when there was no-one else to step up, Sarah-Jane took on a second term as Mazkirah (Director) of the kibbutz. That was how, on October 7th, she found herself in a very pivotal role, a role that really no training can provide any preparation for, and since then she’s relocated the whole kibbutz and...2024-11-2040 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(8) Dr. Rachel Levmore: Influencing the Rabbinic CourtsThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit https://www.lsjs.ac.uk/ for our full Jewish learning programme & find something that suits you. Dr Rachel Levmore has spent decades bridging the world of Jewish Law, academia and social activism to help people from all walks of life negotiate the difficult process of Jewish divorce. That makes her one of my real mentors professionally and my inspiration for the work that I’ve done in Get refusal. She’s a veteran who has dedicated her life to this issue. Rachel is a Rabbinical Court Advocate, and the d...2024-10-3142 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(7) Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll: Warrior with a PenThis podcast is powered by LSJS. Visit https://www.lsjs.ac.uk/ for our full Jewish learning programme & find something that suits you. Shoshana Keats-Jaskoll is a warrior with a pen and she fights, she really fights, for a better Judaism. Raised in Lakewood, she moved to Israel with her family, where she witnessed the damaging effects of extremism on the community. She co-founded Chochmat Nashim, which enables her to write, speak, and campaign to change policy and communal behaviour to create a healthier, more balanced society, highlighting where things go wrong and working on change on...2024-10-1446 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(6) Dr. Yardaena Osband: Creating a Leadership PipelineWe’re meeting Dr Yardaena Osband in this episode, who’s quite challenging to introduce because she wears so many hats! She’s a founding member of the Orthodox Leadership Project, which empowers Orthodox Jewish women’s leadership as a way of strengthening Jewish communities through professional development, education and partnerships. She’s also a paediatrician, teacher, co-host of the Daf Yomi podcast Talking Talmud, and board member of ORA and the Eden Center. With so much to choose from, we spoke about women’s leadership in the Orthodox world, touching on the educat...2024-09-2438 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(5) Rabbanit Surale Rosen: Teaching Torah, Building BridgesRabbanit Surale Rosen is a graduate of Matan’s 5 year halacha programme and she founded their Women’s Online Halachic Responsa Project. For the past 2 years she’s led a new programme here at LSJS called Iyun, our highest level women’s learning programme, teaching women hilchot kashrut and now hilchot brachot. She’s really bringing opportunities to women in the UK that didn’t exist before, and it’s been a real privilege for me personally to have been able to connect our LSJS community to her. Surale’s also a certified Rabbin...2024-09-1038 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(4) Dr. Elana Stein Hain: Jewish Law, Loopholes, and Legal IntegrityElana Stein Hain and I talk about why finding legal loopholes in Jewish law isn’t cheating the system but rather completely in line with what Jewish law is designed for. She is Rosh Beit Midrash and Senior Research fellow at the Shalom Hartman institute of North America and author of a book on halachic loopholes entitled Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity. Passionate about bringing Rabbinic thought into the conversation with contemporary life, Elana hosts the TEXTing podcast where she brings to light issues relevant to Jewish life2024-08-2355 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(4) Dr. Elana Stein Hain: Jewish Law, Loopholes, and Legal IntegrityElana Stein Hain and I talk about why finding legal loopholes in Jewish law isn’t cheating the system but rather completely in line with what Jewish law is designed for. She is Rosh Beit Midrash and Senior Research fellow at the Shalom Hartman institute of North America and author of a book on halachic loopholes entitled Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity. Passionate about bringing Rabbinic thought into the conversation with contemporary life, Ilana hosts the TEXTing podcast where she brings to light issues relevant to Jewish life2024-08-1955 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(3) Tal Bassali: Uniting Far-Flung European Communities Through EducationWe're meeting Tal Bassali in this episode, a passionate, ambitious individual whose vision was to create something “so beautiful that it united people together but enabled them to remain individuals.” Enter the Zehud school, a Jewish online school teaching Hebrew and Judaic Studies to Jewish children. Living in Venice, Tal quickly realized that the type of Jewish education she wanted for her children wasn't available locally. In creating what she needed for her children, she's enabled hundreds of other Jewish children in far flung communities to join her community and receive a powerful, joyo...2024-08-0637 min
Orthodox ConundrumCan the Glass Ceiling Be Broken? Women's Leadership and Its Limits, with Joanne Greenaway (214)One of the most difficult issues facing Modern or Centrist Orthodox Jews today is the question of how to increase and encourage the participation of more women in leadership roles, while also working within the halachic parameters that set limits on how extensive those leadership roles are allowed to be. When we add two thousand years of socialization where women’s leadership was quite rare, along with the reality that advanced Torah education for women is a relatively new phenomenon, we should not be surprised that there is a very real glass ceiling that cannot easily be broken. 2024-07-2954 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(2) Keshet Starr, Esq.: Sustainable female leadership and picking our battlesLet me introduce you to Keshet Starr. Keshet leads ORA, a non profit organisation addressing domestic abuse in the Jewish divorce process worldwide. She’s also a prolific writer, reader and Jewish educator as well as being a lawyer like me, and I had the privilege of working very closely with Keshet and getting to know her while I was managing get (Jewish divorce) cases at the London Beit Din, and I still turn to Keshet for advice. Keshet and I had a great chat about showing up as a female in a very male-dominated space, how to g...2024-07-2242 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish Leadership(1) Dr. Mijal Bitton: Spiritual entrepreneurship & building an ideal form of Jewish lifeI think of Mijal Bitton as a spiritual entrepreneur - she's the Rosh Kehilla, spiritual leader, of the Downtown Minyan in New York City, where she's building vibrant traditional Jewish life. She's also a Torah teacher, a thought leader, and a sociologist with a current research focus on Sefardic Jews. Mijal has really pivoted her energies lately to leading at this time of need in the Jewish world, speaking at the huge Stand with Israel Washington rally, working in the interfaith world and dealing with antisemitism on campus. I have so much...2024-07-1838 minWomen’s Gallery: Showcasing Women in Jewish LeadershipWelcome to Women's Gallery!This podcast is powered by LSJS - the London School of Jewish Studies. Connect with our Jewish education courses, tours and events, online and in person, via lsjs.ac.uk/connect. “I’ve seen the difference it makes when women’s voices and talents are included at all levels,” says Joanne Greenaway, CEO at the London School of Jewish Studies, who as well as being a communal leader and educator is also an international lawyer who spent 10 years developing expertise in resolving Jewish divorce cases individually and systemically. For this reason, Women’s Gallery Podcast will spotl...2024-07-1802 min
Jews Do Count with Raymond Simonson and Dr Jonathan BoydEpisode three: Not just a religionCan you have a strong Jewish identity without believing in God? In the third episode of the Jews Do Count podcast, Jon and Raymond discuss religiosity, and lack of it, with Joanne Greenaway, Chief Executive of the London School of Jewish Studies, looking at what the research shows about religious observance among British Jews, what the term means to different members of the community, and how it can affect one's Jewish identity.
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Desert Island TorahEp.112 with Joanne GreenawayIn this episode, we speak to Joanne Greenaway, who shares her Desert Island Torah, looking at Torah from Sefer Devarim and Parashat Vayakhel.
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Joanne is the Chief Executive of the London School of Jewish Studies.
You can check out her TOI blog here:
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/joanne-greenaway/2023-08-1025 min
Matan: One on One Parsha PodcastEpisode 100 - Parshat Vayakel-Pekudei: The Mishkan and Community BuildingIn this conversation with Joanne Greenaway, LSJS's chief executive, we discuss the communal function of the Mishkan's construction and its significance as Shemot's concluding section.
This episode has been sponsored in memory of David Shmuel Ben Yitzchak whose yartzeit is the 20th of Adar.2023-03-1133 min
The Coach's CompassRuthless Optimism with Joanne Collins, PCCJoanne Collins, PCC is an expert in career management and Transition with over 15 years experience in the private, public and non profit sectors, working with a diverse range of people, from front line workers to senior executives. She has guided clients through goal setting, assessment, personal branding, resume development, networking, interviewing and negotiating job offers. Business Coaching Advantage Program Dorothy Greenaway Coach/Teacher Melinda St. Clair Coach/Teacher Bell Let’s Talk Day Carl Rogers Shirzad Chamine Positive Intelligence Bill Carmody Workinprogress.vip 2021-10-291h 09
The Eden Center PodcastPinchas: Advocacy and Empowerment for WomenIn this week’s Parsha Podcast, Karen Miller Jackson explores the connection between the story of the Bnot Tzlofchad and the plight of agunot, women who are still in need of a get, a Jewish divorce. She discusses the theme of social justice and how we can be successful in creating meaningful change. Karen then interviews Joanne Greenaway, Director of the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) about her work for agunot in the London Beit Din.This week’s podcast is sponsored by Ali Tuchman in loving memory of her grandmother Chana Bat Chava Perel V’Avraham HaCohe...2021-06-3021 min
Total Movie RecallTMR 029 – Mad Max (1979) Mad Max (1979) d. George Miller Starring: Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky Joanne Samuel as Jesse Rockatansky Hugh Keays-Byrne as Toecutter Steve Bisley as Jim Goose Tim Burns as Johnny the Boy Roger Ward as Fifi Geoff Parry as Bubba Zanetta The Interceptor, a modified 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT coupe The second season of Total Movie Recall comes roaring back with a V8 engine and a newly discovered kink. Why does this film have such iconic bondage, S&M, and homoerotic wardrobe and imagery? Who cares? It looks...2020-07-1300 min
Nigel Beale's Biblio File PodcastSydney Smith on writing & illustrating children's booksSydney Smith was born in rural Nova Scotia and started drawing at an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated numerous children’s books, including the highly acclaimed wordless picture book Sidewalk Flowers, conceived by Jon Arno Lawson. It won a Governor General’s Award, among many other honours, and was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book. Sydney is also the illustrator of Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz, for which he was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal, and which won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Prize. Small in...2020-05-1849 min
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel BealeSydney Smith on writing & illustrating children's booksSydney Smith was born in rural Nova Scotia and started drawing at an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated numerous children’s books, including the highly acclaimed wordless picture book Sidewalk Flowers, conceived by Jon Arno Lawson. It won a Governor General’s Award, among many other honours, and was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book. Sydney is also the illustrator of Town Is by the Sea by Joanne Schwartz, for which he was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal, and which won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Prize. Small in...2020-05-1849 min