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Leah Sarna

Leah Sarna is the associate director of education and director of high school programs at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education.

Winter 2024

Before & After October 7: A Symposium

David Baile , Mijal Bitton, Mikhal Dekel, Hillel Halkin, Anthony Julius, Shimrit Meir, Yiftach Ofek, Itamar Rabinovich, Dennis Ross, Arieh Saposnik, Leah Sarna, Daniel B. Schwartz, Anita Shapira, Michael Walzer, Ruth R. Wisse, David J. Wolpe

We asked distinguished friends and contributors a simple question: what did you believe before October 7 that you no longer believe?

Spring 2022

“I Will Not Speak to Dullards”

Leah Sarna

“Without leaving the Zoom lecture, I quickly pulled up the YIVO Encyclopedia entry on Leah Horowitz and sent it to my family WhatsApp group: ‘Any chance we’re related?’”

Fall 2021

Persian Daughters of Israel

Leah Sarna

Leah Sarna imagines Jewish and Gentile women doing their laundry on the banks of the Tigris, sharing tricks for keeping their headscarves tied and their bedrooms pure. She reviews Shai Secunda’s new book on just how Babylonian the Babylonian Talmud was.