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New at YU: High-level Talmud for HS girls

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A new initiative from Yeshiva University’s Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS) will provide opportunities for local high school girls to engage in high-level Judaic studies with the support and mentorship of GPATS students and faculty. 

Called “Sunday Night Learning: Empowered by GPATS,” the program will feature a series of events that are open to female students at any high school. Each event will begin with a dinner and chavruta learning with current students in GPATS, a program designed to provide young women with opportunities to immerse themselves in post-graduate study of Judaic topics. The learning will be followed by advanced shiurim from GPATS and YU faculty on topics that range from Tanach to gemara and Jewish philosophy. 

The first event of the series will take place from 7 to 9 pm on Sunday, Dec. 18, at Bais Medrash of Bergenfield, 371 South Prospect Ave., Bergenfield, NJ. Nechama Price, director of GPATS, will deliver a shiur titled, “These Are A Few of Their Favorite Things: Favoritism in Tanach.”

The idea for the program originated with Dr. Jessica Kornwasser, who was intrigued by Price’s discussion of GPATS and women’s learning at YU’s annual ChampionsGate Leadership Conference.

“After hearing Nechama Price and several other Stern College Judaic studies professors speak at Championsgate, I found myself wishing that my daughter, a sophomore in high school, could get a glimpse of the Torah learning that awaits her in college,” said Kornwasser. “The idea was met with enthusiasm by Nechama and several other mothers of high school girls, and Sunday Night Learning began to take shape.”

“I was really excited by the idea of spreading the message of women’s learning to a younger generation,” added Price. 

For more information, contact Nechama Price at nechama.price@yu.edu.