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Recording of conference on Gender-Inclusive and Nonbinary Hebrew

March 18, 2022 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

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Gender Inclusive and Nonbinary Hebrew

Conference on Gender-Inclusive and Nonbinary Hebrew: Innovations and Classroom Applications

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Language, Gender and Society:
11:00-12:30 EDT / 8:00-9:30 PDT / 17:00-18:30 IST

Avital Karpman | Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Hebrew, University of Maryland 
Greetings and Introductory Remarks

Michal Shomer | Creator and Designer of Multi-Gender Hebrew
Multi-Gender Hebrew: Creating a New Space in the Hebrew Language 

Orit Bershtling | Professor at the School of Social Work, Hadassah Academic College 
"All is Gendered:" Hebrew's Role in Constructing Transgender Bodies and Identities

Tal Janner-Klausner | Coordinator of Hebrew Teaching, This is Not An Ulpan 
Is Gender Justice Possible in Hebrew?

Language, Gender and Liturgy:
1:00-2:15 EDT / 10:00-11:15 PDT / 19:00-20:15 IST

Abby Stein | Rabbi, Educator, Author and Co-founder of Sacred Space 
In the Image of Divine: All Genders and Genderless

brin solomon | Liturgist at The Inclusive Siddur Project
Standing Again at Sinai, Again: Towards a Nonbinary Hebrew for Liturgical Use 

Joy Ladin | Writer, Teacher and Speaker 
Shekhinah Speaks: Gendering Divinity

Language, Gender and Pedagogy with Q&A Session for Hebrew Instructors:
2:30-4:00 EDT / 11:30-1:00 PDT / 20:30-22:00 IST

Eyal Rivlin | Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Hebrew, University of Colorado, Boulder and Co-creator of The Nonbinary Hebrew Project
Ani V’aTEH Neshaneh Et Ha’olam: The Origin Story of the Nonbinary Hebrew Project, and How You Can Start Using It

Jen Braveman | Former Executive Director, Habonim Dror Camp Moshava -and-
Erica Kushner | Mazkirol Klaliol (Director), Habonim Dror North America
Gender Inclusive Hebrew in Habonim Dror North America

Tal Janner-Klausner | Coordinator of Hebrew Teaching, This is Not An Ulpan
Nonbinary and Gender-Equal Hebrew in the Classroom

Dov Wiener | High School Teacher and Researcher
American Judaism Outside the Binary: The Growing Need for New Language