e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: Silence and Song: Prayers and Torah for Israel's National Holidays

Dates

April 29, 2025 to May 20, 2025

Time

Tuesdays 2:15 PM to 3:15 PM Eastern

Location

Yom HaShoa, Yom HaZikaron, Yom HaAtzmaut, Lag BaOmer, and Yom Yerushalayim bring old stories, new challenges, and a deeper awareness of our national journey to the season of the Omer. In this series we will explore the complexity and resonance of these days through Torah insights and a new book of prayers from the land of Israel - "Az Nashir; Between Silence & Song"

April 29: From Mourning to Meaning: Working our way from Yom HaZikaron to Yom HaAtzmaut

May 13: Mysterious Flames: Old and New Layers in the Holiday of Fire

May 20: The Gate that is Jerusalem: Yom Yerushalayim as a Path that Leads Beyond

Topics:

Israel, Jewish Holidays, Tefillah (Prayer)

Meet the speaker

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Rachel Sharansky Danziger is a Jerusalem-based writer and educator, who lectures internationally about the intersections between Jewish texts, life in Israel, and the art of storytelling. Rachel earned her BA in philosophy and MA in American history at The Hebrew University. She is the co-editor of the recently published anthology of prayers "Az Nashir: We Will Sing Again - Women's Prayers for Our Time of Need" and is currently working on a book about family stories in the Book of Judges as a Sefaria fellow.

Rachel Sharansky Danziger bio & resources