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Gila Fine is a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, exploring the tales of the Talmud through philosophy, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and pop-culture. She is a brilliant teacher and Haaretz has called Gila "a young woman on her way to becoming one of the more outstanding Jewish thinkers of the next generation." She will be here in Seattle for a short visit, and Kavana is teaming up with Congregation Beth Shalom to host a book talk, entitled: The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud. "How does that Talmud portray its heroined? Why are they never as they first seem? And what does this tell us about the rabbis' views of marriage, sex, childbirth, and what it means to be a woman in the world? Gila Fine discusses her new book on the six named heroines of the Talmud." For anyone interested in Jewish texts or history, this should be a wonderful evening and we hope you'll plan to join us... all are welcome!