Jewish Quest Launch and Special Pre-Purim Seuda
Featuring from Jerusalem, Rabbi Dalia Marx in conversation with Simon Eder
Sunday 13th March 2022, 7.00 – 9.00 pm
JW3
With magnificent Purim Nosh and Wine
Don’t miss this amazing hybrid event
Limited numbers
In Person Booking essential, £12.00
Zoom participants please book £8.00
Book now for in-person or online tickets
Should Esther be considered a national hero or was she passive and devious? Was Esther courageous or merely compliant with patriarchy? Is Vashti arrogant or strong and dignified? What are Esther’s unpredictable developments? Does Esther really change? Just who is the true mastermind – Esther or Mordecai? In this unique unmasking of Esther, leading scholar, Rabbi Marx, discusses the Megillah from Esther’s own complex perspective.
Rabbi Dalia Marx is the Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Professor of Liturgy and Midrash at the Taube Family Campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, and teaches in various academic institutions in Israel and Europe. Marx, tenth generation in Jerusalem, earned her doctorate at the Hebrew University and her rabbinic ordination at HUC-JIR in Jerusalem and Cincinnati. She is the author of numerous articles and several books including: When I Sleep and When I Wake: On Prayers between Dusk and Dawn (Yediot Sfarim, 2010, in Hebrew), A Feminist Commentary of the Babylonian Talmud (Mohr Siebeck, 2013, in English) and About Time: Journeys in the Jewish-Israeli Calendar (Yediot Sfarim, 2018, in Hebrew).
Simon Eder is Editorial Director of Jewish Quest. He writes regularly for the site and has written for the Judaism column of the Jewish Chronicle. He is a founder of the Jewish Community in Dubai and due to feature in a documentary later this year.