Joy Ladin, Ph.D. Gives the Annual Pride Month Lecture at Ohr Kodesh

Joy Ladin, Ph.D., author of The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective and Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders will deliver the annual Ohr Kodesh Pride Month lecture on Sunday, June 6 at 7:15 PM via Zoom. This lecture has been made possible by the Ohr Kodesh LGBTQ Inclusion Task Force.

Dr. Ladin is a teacher, essayist, poet, and literary scholar. She holds the Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University. She is a nationally recognized speaker on transgender issues and on gender and Jewish identity. Dr. Ladin has been featured on the NPR program On Being with Krista Tippet and gave a TedX talk entitled Ain’t I a Woman? Dr. Ladin is a recipient of the Hachamet Lev award from Keshet, the Jewish LGBTQ advocacy organization, in recognition of her advocating for and modeling LGBTQ equality in her public life.

To register, click here or visit ohrkodesh.org/event/lgbtq-inclusion .