Sh’ma: Listen! Speakers Series Presents The Sheila Michaels Memorial Lecture

Breaking the Silence: Past and Present Perspectives on #MeToo from Jewish History and Religious Ethics

 

Tuesday, May 22 | 7:00 pm

 

Central Reform Congregation
5020 Waterman Blvd., 63108

 

Sheila Michaels, a St. Louis native and member of Central Reform Congregation, was a feminist and civil rights activist, credited with popularizing the term, “Ms.” She was a humanitarian and Biblical scholar, who also established an archive of oral histories of civil rights leaders, which is now stored at the Columbia University Oral History Archives.

 

Speakers

Judith Rosenbaum, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Jewish Women’s Archive, a pioneering national organization that documents Jewish women’s stories, elevates their voices and inspires them to be agents of change. An educator, historian and writer, Judith has taught and lectured widely on Jewish studies and women’s studies and regularly publishes in both academic and popular journals.

 

Anna F. Bialek, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Politics at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. Alongside her teaching and research, Bialek has worked in sexual health education and intimate violence response and prevention for over a decade.

 

Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi, Ph.D. is the Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a practical ethicist who examines questions of sexual, biomedical and environmental ethics through a Jewish lens.

 

RSVP to Shirley Wise at SWise@JFedSTL.org or 314-442-3765. For additional information, contact Cyndee Levy at CLevy@JFedSTL.org or 314-442-3754.

This program is sponsored by the Center for Jewish Learning, Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library, Nishmah and Central Reform Congregation.

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series is generously funded by the Lubin-Green Foundation, a Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, and Hank Webber and Chris Jacobs.

 

Sh’ma: Listen! Advisory Committee Chair
Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman

Staff
Rabbi Tracy Nathan, Senior Educator, Center for Jewish Learning
Cyndee Levy, Director, Center for Jewish Learning

Jewish Federation of St. Louis
Gerald P. Greiman, Board Chair
Andrew Rehfeld, President & CEO