“Poetry as Midrash in Motion” with Ben Berman and Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld
Join us for “Poetry as Midrash in Motion” with award-winning poet and Reyim member Ben Berman and Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, President of Hebrew College. The program is sponsored by Hebrew College and the Boston Chapter of Yetzirah,
Ben Berman is the author of three books of poems and the collection of essays, Writing While Parenting, a 2023 Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year. He has won the Peace Corps Award for the Best Book of Poetry, has been shortlisted twice for the Massachusetts Book Awards and has received awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, New England Poetry Club and Somerville Arts Council.
Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld has been president of Hebrew College since 2018. She previously served as Dean of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College for 11 years. Rabbi Anisfeld graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1990 and subsequently spent 15 years working in pluralistic settings as a Hillel rabbi at Tufts University, Yale University, and Harvard University.
