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Leah Sarna

Leah Sarna is the spiritual leader of Kehillat Sha’arei Orah in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, and a faculty member at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. She is writing a book tentatively titled Begetting and Beginning: The Torah of Pregnancy, Birth and the Beginning of Life.

Summer 2024

An Unusable Past?

Leah Sarna

What did Jewish women know about Torah, and when did they know it?

Winter 2024

Before & After October 7: A Symposium

David Biale , 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.