Andrea Weiss

Provost
HUC-JIR
Participates in 2 items
Rabbi Andrea L. Weiss, Ph.D. is Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Provost and Associate Professor of Bible at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She received a B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987, was ordained at HUC-JIR in New York in 1993, and earned her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She is co-editor of American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 Letters (University of Cincinnati Press, 2019), associate editor of The Torah: A Women's Commentary (CCAR Press, 2008), and author of Figurative Language in Biblical Prose Narrative: Metaphor in the Book of Samuel (Brill, 2006). Her research focuses on metaphor, biblical poetry, and biblical conceptions of God.

Sessions in which Andrea Weiss participates

Sunday 22 March, 2020

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
3:00 PM
Presidential Welcome by Ron Segal, followed by study session with Andrea Weiss
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
CC

with greetings by Hara Person and Alex Shuval-Weiner. Study session with Andrea Weiss "How Long?" — Biblical Approaches to Anxiety about the Unknown Click to join: ccar.co/presidential-welcomeCall in: 646-558-8656Meeting ID: 853 655 214All Times are EasternClosed Captioning:• Within Zoom, using link above (

Ronald M. Segal
Other Participant

Andrea Weiss
Other Participant

Tuesday 24 March, 2020

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
5:30 PM
The American Jewish Conversation: Who Is at the Table and What Is on the Menu? (Sponsored by AJA)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | 1 hour
CC

What is the role of Judaism and Jewish existence in America? And what role does America play in matters Jewish? David Ellenson and Michael Marmur will grapple with these questions and offer a look at how the diverse body of Jewish thought developed within the historical and intellectual context of America.Moderated by Andrea WeissThe Jacob Rader Marcus Memorial Lecture is sponsored by The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives with Gary Zola Cli...

Andrea Weiss
Moderator

David Ellenson
Other Participant

Michael Marmur
Other Participant