Please join Amy Grossblatt Pessah, rabbi, mom, educator, and author, as she shares some of the ways ancient Jewish prayer can offer timely wisdom for the modern parent. In this interactive session, we will focus on the words of the Sh’ma prayer and explore what messages and teachings can be extrapolated to help us become more mindful, present, open-hearted parents, no matter the age of our child. Discover how the Shema can bolster us to listen intensely and love deeply especially now, as we navigate what it means to be a parent in 2020.
Rabbi Amy will be sharing passages from her recent book, Parenting on a Prayer. Registrants will receive a discount on the purchase of the book. A discount code and Zoom link will be sent out ahead of the event.
Amy Grossblatt Pessah is a rabbi, author, spiritual director and mom. Serving various communities and demographics across the country, Amy has been a Jewish educator for over twenty-five years, with a specialization in Jewish Family Education. She is the author of the recent book, Parenting on a Prayer: Ancient Jewish Secrets for Raising Modern Children. Learn more at her website, A Soulful Journey.
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Joseph Lovett, Executive Producer and Director of the film, and event moderator. Lovett started Lovett Stories + Strategies (as Lovett Productions, Inc.) in 1989 after 10 years as a producer at ABC News “20/20,” following five years as an editor and producer at CBS News Magazine which was created as a daytime “60 minutes” for an at home audience.
José “Akiba” Portuondo-Dember, Esq., member of the Cuban American “conversos” community. He is descended from conversos that fled the Spanish Inquisition, settling in Puerto Rico and Cuba. He received his J.D. from Boston College (2012) and his B.A. in Jewish Studies from the University of Chicago (2006). He currently works as a translator and attorney, with practice interests in LGBTQ rights; and First Amendment jurisprudence and indigenous medicines of the Americas.
Rabbi Or Rose, Founding Director of the 
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Keith Stokes, Vice President of the 
Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University, is the author and editor of nine books. His most recent book, “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History” (WW Norton/Liveright, 2018), was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist, and is the inspiration for this lecture. He is now at work on a biography of Philip Roth. He is an editor of Yale’s Jewish Lives series, and writes often for The New York Times, Jewish Review of Books, and elsewhere.