1:00-2:30pm ET | 12:00-1:30pm CT | 10:00-11:30am PT
Zoom (link provided upon registration)
In this class, we will explore both the insights that queer theory and queer experience can bring to traditional texts about Niddah, Jewish menstrual law, and consider how our mikva’ot can better embrace these insights.
All are invited to learn with us in this virtual Rising Tide Network webinar, hosted on Zoom, on Sunday, February 18 at 1:00-2:30pm ET | 12:00-1:30pm CT | 10:00-11:30am PT.
About the Facilitator
Rabbi Avigayil Halpern (she/her) is an educator and writer whose work focuses on feminist and queer Torah, most recently through her newsletter project, Approaching (avigayil.substack.com). She is currently a Scholar-in-Residence at The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, where she is at work on a book tentatively titled “Queer Niddah: Theology and Practice,” and the Rabbinic Fellow at Hillel Deustchland. Avigayil served as the Cooperberg-Rittmaster Pastoral and Educational Intern at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in 2023, and has taught in Torah institutions and synagogues internationally. Avigayil holds rabbinic ordination from the Hadar Institute, and a BA in Judaic Studies from Yale University. She has completed a unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at New York Presbyterian/Columbia, is trained as a Mikveh Guide through Rising Tide, the national network of community mikvaot, and has participated in Faith Matters’ Movement Chaplaincy Training. Avigayil was selected as one of the New York Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36” in 2021, and as a Vatichtov: She Writes fellow in 2022.