Poet, author and first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish Institution,Joy Ladin will speak on Jonah, God and Other Strangers: Reading the Torah from a Transgender perspective, She will share her personal journey and offer her insights and unique reading of gender identity in the Hebrew Torah. She will analyze and reinterpret key texts from a trans perspective--that is, in light of experiences of not fitting into identity-defining roles and categories, experiences of feeling estranged that are particularly acute for transgender and nonbinary people but common to everyone and, the Torah tells us, to God. More info here. https://kolotmayimreformtemple.com/event/joy-ladin-on-jonah-god-and-other-strangers-reading-the-torah-from-a-transgender-perspective/