The first North American Orthodox woman to use the title “rabbi” is to be one of the speakers at this month’s Limmud winter conference.
Rabbi Lila Kadegan, who graduated in summer from Yeshivat Maharat, an Orthodox women’s seminary in New York, will be teaching several classes at the event including one on inclusion and Jewish law.
The 1,000 sessions in the programme published today range from transgender issues in contemporary Jewish identity to making “Ashkenazi cocktails”.
Other guests from the United States include historian Deborah Lipstadt – whose famous court battle against Holocaust denier David Irving is the subject of a forthcoming film – and political scientist Zvi Gitelbaum.
