Author: rabbituchman
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Lauren Tuchman: Rabbinical Student and Disability Advocate
Watch Lauren’s feature on 70 Faces Media.
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The Jewish Week: Disability is Our Normal
New Normal Editor Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer speaks with Lauren Tuchman about her powerful ELI Talk powerful ELI Talk We Were ALL At Sinai: The Transformative Power Of Inclusive Torah, and what members of the Jewish community can take away from it. Click here
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ELI Talk: We All Were At Sinai: The Transformative Power of Inclusive Torah
Rabbi Tuchman delivered an ELI Talk We All Were At Sinai: The Transformative Power of Inclusive Torah in which she offers a new paradigm for understanding the religious import of including all within our sacred spaces.
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Senior Sermon, the Jewish Theological Seminary
Watch Rabbi Tuchman’s senior sermon, delivered on October 23, 2017 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
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Named to the Jewish Week’s 36 under 36
Learn how Lauren Tuchman chose to become a rabbi and how she hopes to effect and inspire change in the way the Jewish Theological Seminary approaches inclusivity. Click to read
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On Creating Holy Communities
Choosing to become a rabbi was a decision I made with an incredible amount of consideration and care. I wish to bring my particular passions, skillsets and knowledge to bear on some of the most important justice issues within the Jewish community and beyond it. Further, I believe strongly that…
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Pokeakh Ivrim: Opening our Minds to New Forms of Inclusion
Typically when we think of access in general and in Jewish community specifically, we first default to thinking about physical access—is the bimah accessible? Do we have sign language interpretation provided for services and other events? Are Braille and large print siddurim available? It has often been my experience as…
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Parashat Emor: On Reading Leviticus 21 and the Problematics of Embodied Leadership
This piece first appeared here. Parashat Emor (Leviticus 21-24), read this week in synagogues outside of Israel, opens with a passage describing limitations placed on individuals whom a Kohen (priest) may mourn or marry, as well as limiting sacrificial service in the Mishkan to those who are able-bodied. We learn…
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