ATWR is delighted to welcome TAMAR BIALA, an extraordinary and creative teacher of Jewish texts, as we prepare for the holiday of Shavuot.
Tamar Biala is the editor of Dirshuni: Contemporary Women’s Midrash, a groundbreaking anthology of interpretations of the Hebrew Bible composed by Israeli women. It’s a profoundly beautiful and important new collection of contemporary writings that could stand alongside those of the ancient rabbis in their canon of Midrash. (The Hebrew versions of Dirshuni were added to the Sefaria.org site this past year.)
Tamar has taught at Jerusalem’s IASA (a high school for gifted children from all over Israel), and taught for a number of years at the Shalom Hartman Institute’s teacher training program, as well as seminars for the officer corps of the Israel Defense Forces. She has also taught in a variety of pluralistic batei midrash in Israel. Currently she is working on the Toratah project, regendering the Bible in revealing and eye-opening ways. She and her family live in Jerusalem.
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