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Dinah Berland
www.dinahberland.com
Telephone: (310) 391-9987
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Dinah is a poet and the editor of “Hours of Devotion: Fanny Neuda’s Book of Prayers for Jewish Women” (Schocken, 2007), the first book of Jewish prayers for all occasions to be written by a woman for women. Her poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Ploughshares, and the Iowa Review. She works as a book editor for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Calling Out from the Heart
Fanny Neuda and Jewish Women's Prayer
Ritual and Prayer
- Friday 3:15PM–4:30PM Newport Beach 1
What is Jewish women's prayer and what makes it different from liturgical prayer? This session will explore the tradition of tekhines (supplications), discuss the work of Fanny Neuda and lead participants in writing their own prayer poems.
