Between the Lines: It Takes Two to Torah (New Date!)
It Takes Two to Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses
Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of JTS
Monday, December 9, 2024 (New Date!)
7:30–9:00 p.m. ET
In Person at JTS
3080 Broadway (at 122nd Street)
New York City
This talk is co-sponsored by the JTS Library and the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies
Rabbi Dov Linzer, President and Rosh HaYeshiva of YCT—Yeshivat Chovevei Torah—asked his longtime friend Abigail Pogrebin, journalist and author of three books including My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew to pair up for a real-time discussion of Torah. The result is a lively, substantive two-year conversation on the page—one parsha per chapter—with plenty of disagreements and confessions, peppered with Dov’s deep scholarship and Abby’s reporter’s lens.
Come hear them in conversation with Dr. Burt Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies Emeritus.
About the Authors
Rabbi Dov Linzer is the President and Rosh HaYeshiva (Rabbinic Head) of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, an Orthodox rabbinical school and Torah center, which promotes a more open and inclusive Orthodoxy. He has written for the Forward, Tablet, and The New York Times, and hosted highly popular Torah podcasts.
Abigail Pogrebin is the author of the National Jewish Book Award finalist My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew and Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish. She’s written for The Atlantic, the Forward, and Tablet, and moderates public conversations for The Streicker Center and the Jewish Broadcasting Service.
Praise for It Takes Two to Torah
“Here is Torah both profound and accessible, touching our everyday experience. Read, be delighted, and learn.”
—Rabbi David Wolpe, Author, Max Webb Rabbi Emeritus of Sinai Temple
“This is a conversation that is in turn fascinating, challenging, upsetting, intriguing, surprising, playful, judgmental, pluralistic, and full of living wisdom for today. Their weekly conversation is a model of how people of divergent religious views can learn from each other.”
—Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, author, The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism
