Rabbi Benay Lappe delivered a TEDx Talk entitled "CRASH! 1-2-3: How to Navigate Inevitable Change" Jan. 28, 2014 at TEDx Spence in New York City.
The talk is now available on YouTube ( www.youtube.com/watch ) and on the SVARA website ( www.svara.org ). "CRASH" offers a simple framework for how every story—every idea—is born, crashes, and is able to be retold in a more authentic version that can inspire and benefit everyone.
Lappe will be giving an extended version of the CRASH Talk with a focus on how it applies to today's Jewish community, live and in-person, on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 77-9 p.m., at 1770 W. Berteau Ave. in Chicago. RSVP by emailing contact@svara.org .
Rabbi Benay Lappe, Founder and Rosh Yeshiva of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva, is an award-winning educator specializing in the radical methods of social, moral, and legal change recorded in the Talmud, and is an innovator in the"I don't think the students who come to SVARA are coming primarily to learn Talmud, they are wishing that they could fall in love with the Jewish Tradition. And SVARA offers them that: They find a tradition that is smart, bold, courageous. They come because this is the place where they love doing their Jewish."
"I don't think the students who come to SVARA are coming primarily to learn Talmud, they are wishing that they could fall in love with the Jewish Tradition. And SVARA offers them that: They find a tradition that is smart, bold, courageous. They come because this is the place where they love doing their Jewish," Lappe said.
SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva ( SVARA ) was founded in 2003 by Rabbi Benay Lappe to provide students from all walks of life the opportunity to discover through the study of Talmud that Judaism is smarter and more radical than they ever imagined. SVARA strives to build a Jewish community that is informed by the insights of Queer people ( defined as all individuals—regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression—who experience life as outsiders ).
The release of "CRASH" comes on the heels of SVARA being featured in the ABC7-Channel 7 show, "Sanctuary." on Feb. 23, 2014 ( www.juf.org/interactive/default.aspx ) and Rabbi Lappe being named as one of Jewrotica's Sexiest Rabbis of 2013 ( jewrotica.org/2013/12/jewroticas-sexiest-rabbis-of-2013/ ) .
SVARA currently offers a weekly Talmud study class in partnership with Mishkan Chicago, the SVARA & Mishkan Bet Midrash ( S&M Bet Midrash ) at the Center on Halsted, and, independently, Nitza's Attic, an intensive, year-long Talmud program for Queers and radicals.
