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Eleanor Ehrenkranz

Telephone: 914-723-5319

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Eleanor Ehrenkranz is a professor at Pace University, teaching writing courses. She got her PH.D at NYU. She has published articles in The New York Times, World Jewish Digest and The Greenwich Times, among other places. Currently, she lectures on subjects of Jewish interest in White Plains, Scarsdale and Greenwich.

Why Do We Read the Story of Jonah on Yom Kippur?

Commentary by Aviva Zornberg and others discussed

Text and Thought

Why the story of Jonah is read on Yom Kippur seems to remain a mystery. Discussion of this topic by Aviva Zornberg and Rachel Adler, among others will be analyzed and evaluated alongside the text of the story of Jonah.

The Changing Image of the Jewish Woman in America

Arts and Performance

How the Jewish-American woman has been perceived by the media and in literature from 1930 to the present will be the focus of this session. Clips from TV shows and films from the fifties to the nineties will be shown.

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