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Curriculum Vitae

Shoshana Razel Gordon

119 Langdon St.

Newton, MA. 02458

617-413-0405

razelgued@

srg847@mail.harvard.edu

Education

2011-2017 Doctoral Student in Comparative Theology and Law at Harvard Divinity School. (Degree expected in 2019).

2016 Successful completion of qualifying doctoral exams—“Generals.” A.B.D.

2016 Study of Sanskrit, Mimamsa Legal Theory, Upanishads, and Islamic Legal Theory at Harvard Divinity School

2011-2016 Active member of the Jewish Legal Theory Reading Group at Harvard Law School

2015 Study of Theories and Methods and Contemporary Conversations in Comparative Theology, Ritual, Ethics, Law, and Religion at Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

2013-2015 Sanskrit Study at Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

2013-2014 Bok Center Teacher’s Training, Harvard University

2012-2017 Active member of the Comparative Studies Colloquium at the Center for the Study of World Religions.

2011-2015 Courses in Jewish Law, Legal Theory, Comparative Law, and Religio-Legal Theory—Rabbinic, Islamic, Canon, and Brahmanic—at Harvard Law School.

2011-2015 Courses in Hindu Law, Islamic Law, Latin, Comparative Religion and Comparative Theology, at Harvard Divinity School.

2011-2012 Courses in Canon Law and Sacramental Theology at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, MA.

2007-2011 ALM (Masters in Liberal Arts) in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard University Extension School.

ALM Dean’s List for Academic Achievement

Dean’s Prize for Outstanding ALM Thesis in the Humanities

The Thomas Small Prize

2007 Intensive Academic Talmud and Brisker Method at Drisha Institute, NYC

2000-2006 Talmud study and teaching in the communal realm.

1997-1999 Courses in Literature, Fiction Writing, and Poetry Writing at Stanford University.

1991-1995 Graduate studies in Jewish Thought (Talmud, Theology, Philosophy, Literature) and Advanced German at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1987-1991 BA, Empire State College, State University of New York. Major: Cultural Studies. Concentration: Psychology, Literature, and Jewish Thought (Talmud, Theology, Philosophy).

1989-1990 Fellowship Kollel Studies at MaTan—Sadie Rennert Women’s Institute for Jewish Studies.

1987-1988 Rabbinic Study with Rabbi Walter Ze’ev Gotthold, z”l

1985-1986 Certification in Education and Teaching, IDF Education Corps.

1978-1985 Rabbinic Study with my father, Rabbi Dr. Menachem Mendel Leib Martin Lewis Gordon, z”l

Scholarly and Communal Occupations

2013-2016 Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow at Harvard University.

2014 Teaching independent undergraduate junior tutorial at Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Religion 98: Readings in Babylonian Talmud.

2013 Teaching Fellow at Harvard Divinity School: “The Tree at the Center of the World.”

2013 Teaching Fellow in Gen Ed, Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, “Culture and Belief 27: Among the Nations: Jewish History in Pagan, Christian, and Muslim Context.”

2002-2015 Guest Speaker at Congregations Beth El, Shaarei Tefillah, and Yedid Nefesh in Newton, MA, and at Hazayit Congregation in Efrat, Israel.

1990-2017 Mother to five beloved children.

1999-2015 Active in the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance.

2008-2012 Co-founded, led and developed Yedid Nefesh—Halakhic Partnership Minyan (Orthodox Egalitarian), Newton, MA.

2005-2011 Founded and coached the 4 to 6-year-old division of Maimonides School Sunday Soccer for boys and girls in Newton, MA.

1999-2011 Teaching and Study in Talmudic Study Groups in Newton, MA.

2009-2010 Ethnographic Study—Surveying Orthodox Jewish Female and Male Identity in the United States.

1988-1989 Teaching converts to Judaism for the Jerusalem Rabbinate.

1985-1987 Teaching GED High School Curriculum in the IDF Education Corps.

Publications

Books

2017 A Voice is Heard in Ramah: A Mother’s Poems. Ben Yehuda Press. 2017.

2011 “Trusting Creatures: Tales of Maternal Instinct.” Master’s Thesis. Harvard Extension School. Spring 2011.

Scholarly Essays

2017 “Sagi Nahor--Enough Light: Dialectic Tension Between Luminescent Resonance and Blind Assumption in Comparative Theology.” Essays in Method in Comparative Theology. Edited by Francis X. Clooney, SJ and Klaus von Stosch. Fordham University Press. 2017.

2017 “Lethal Wives and Impure Widows.” Hindu and Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Comparative Perspectives. Lexington Press. 2017.

2013 “The ‘Pesaqratic Oath’: Good Faith Presumption in the Spirit of Religio-Legal Rulings.” Keren Journal of Yeshivat Maharat. July 2013.

Short Stories

2016 “Wrestling.” Sixfold Journal. Winter 2016.

2015 “Drowning.” . April 2015.

2008 “You Can Kill Spiders Too.” Harvard Summer Review. 2008.

2008 “Bathroom Window.” Harvard Summer Review. 2008.

Poetry

2015 “Neglect.” Poetica Magazine. August 3rd 2015.

2015 “A Hike—” nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

2014 “A Hike.” The Worcester Review. November 2014.

2013 Poetry in Translation—English Translation of the poem, “Noah” by Israeli Poet, Rivka Miriam. Inventory Journal Princeton. Fall 2013.

2013 “Jerusalem is Burning.” The Wick. Spring 2013.

2012 “Alone.” The Wick. Spring 2012.

2012 “Instead.” The Wick. Spring 2012.

2012 “Silence.” The Wick. Spring 2012.

2010 “Arms.” Charles River Review. Spring 2010.

2010 “Dust to Dawn.” Charles River Review. Spring 2010.

Articles

2015 “Breaking of Two Fasts.” The Jewish Standard. July 10th 2015.

2015 “A Joint Iftar/Break-Fast for Ramadan and the 17th of Tammuz”

The Jewish Advocate of Greater Boston. July 10th 2015.

2014 “The Jews are Coming.” The Jewish Standard. December 26th, 2014.

2013 “Searching for a Meaningful Bat Mitzvah Celebration an Orthodox Mother Reflects Upon Her Own Bat Mitzvah and Those of Her Four Daughters.” The Jewish Standard. Summer 2013.

2010 “An Orthodox Woman Finds Spiritual Home.” The Jewish Advocate of Greater Boston. June 18, 2010.

2010 Article—“In the Spirit of the Rabba.” The Jewish Advocate of Greater Boston. March 25, 2010.

2009 “Orthodox Female Identity, My Thoughts and Feelings.” Survey Monkey. November 2009-February 2010.

2009 “Orthodox Male Identity, My Thoughts and Feelings.” Survey Monkey. November 2009-February 2010.

Nominations and Awards

2015 “A Hike—” nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

2011 ALM Dean’s List for Academic Achievement

2011 Dean’s Prize for Outstanding ALM Thesis in the Humanities honorable mention

2011 The Thomas Small Prize for Academic Achievement and Character

2010 “Sruli’s Bris”—Top-25 finalist—Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. August, 2010.

2010 “Wrestling”—Top-25 finalist—Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award. January, 2010.

2009 “Sruli’s Bris”—Top-25 finalist—Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open Award. September, 2009.

2009 “Jerusalem is Burning”—Honorable mention—Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award. July, 2009.

2008 “Drowning”—Top-25 finalist—Glimmer Train’s Family Matters Award. October, 2008.

Peer Reviews

2015 Peer reviewer for Jewish Law Association Studies: Berlin volume. 2015.

Presentations

2017 “In Memory of my Father: Modern Orthodox Judaism: Studies and Perspectives.” LimmudNY. Princeton. NJ.

2017 Panel: “What is the Role of History and Memory in Jewish Life and How Can These Contexts Inform the Way We Live Today?” LimmudNY. Princeton. NJ.

2017 “The Practice of the Good in Hindu, Jewish, Islamic, and Canon Law.” LimmudNY. Princeton. NJ.

2017 “Escape Unholy? Comparative Hagiographic Study of Family Abandonment.” LimmudNY. Princeton. NJ.

2016 "Ritual Efficacy and Agency—A Comparative Theological Study in Competing Oughts." Comparative Studies Colloquium, Center for the Study of World Religions. May 2016

2016 Panel: “Jewish Parenting Panel: Stories of Daily Joy and Challenges.” LimmudNY. Stamford CT.

2016 “Pikuach Nefesh, Salus Animarum, Darura, and Apaddharma—Jewish, Catholic, Islamic, and Hindu Religio-legal Approaches to Priorities in Extenuating Circumstances.” LimmudNY. Stamford CT.

2015 Joint presentation: Francis X. Clooney SJ and Shoshana Razel Gordon on reading Mimamsa and Rabbinic texts of legal reasoning side by side. April 2015. Comparative Studies Colloquium, Center for the Study of World Religions.

2015 “Practice of Good Men in Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, and Canon Law.” LimmudNY. Stamford CT.

2015 “Islamic Yunus and Jewish Jonah.” LimmudNY. Stamford CT.

2015 “Off the Record—the Law and the Law-to-be-applied in Jewish Responsa and Islamic Fatawa.” LimmudNY. Stamford CT.

2015 “Lethal Wives and Impure Widows—the Widow Marriage Taboo in Hindu and Jewish Law and Lore.” LimmudNY. Stamford CT.

2014 “Lethal Wives and Impure Widows.” Dharma Academy of North America—the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA.

2013 “Lethal Wives and Impure Widows: The Widow Marriage Taboo in Rabbinic and Brahmanical Law and Lore.” Comparative Studies Colloquium, Center for the Study of World Religions. December 2013.

2013 “Solar, Lunar and Soli-Lunar—Domini, Hajj, and Briah—The Calendar in Christian, Islamic and Jewish Tradition.” The Pearlstone Center. Baltimore. February 2013.

2012 “Exploring the Nature of the Marital Bond in Halakhah, in Catholic Canon Law, in Islamic Sharia, and in Hindu Dharmasastra.”

The Pearlstone Center. Baltimore. October 2012.

2012 “Yonah, Jonah, and Yunus—Jewish, Christian and Muslim lenses upon the prophet of repentance---and the mystery of the Kikayon” The Pearlstone Center. Baltimore. October 2012.

2012 Session Chair at Jewish Law Association Conference. “Jews and Jewish Law in the Ottoman Empire,” Ruth Lamdan (Tel Aviv University) – “Jewish Encounters in Muslim Courts in the Ottoman Empire: 16th-17th Centuries,” Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky (Ariel University Center) – “Punishment for Adultery in the Jewish Society in the Ottoman Empire.” Yale University. Summer 2012.

Conference Attendance and Participation

2017 LimmudNY, Princeton, New Jersey

2017 Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Conference

2017 Jews and Muslims in America Today: Political Challenges and Moral Opportunities. Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

2016 Association of Jewish Studies, San Diego, California

2016 American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, and Dharma Academy of North America, San Antonio, Texas

2016 Jewish and Muslim Religious Leaders Retreat

2016 Inaugural Event for the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School

2016 Sacramental Presences: Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Daoist Perspectives. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University.

2016 LimmudNY, Stamford, Connecticut

2015 Association of Jewish Studies, Boston, Massachusetts

2015 American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, and Dharma Academy of North America, Atlanta, Georgia

2015 Jews, Catholics, and Protestants Confront Divorce. Boston College

2015 LimmudNY. Stamford, Connecticut

2014 American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, and Dharma Academy of North America, San Diego, California

2013 Finance in Religious Law: A Comparative Conference: Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Harvard Law School.

2013 The Song of Songs: Translation, Reception, Reconfiguration. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University.

2012 Jewish Law Association. Yale University

1997-2017 Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance.

Languages

English, Modern Hebrew, and Yiddish: native-level proficiency in reading, writing and speaking.

German, Biblical Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew and Aramaic: reading fluency.

French, Latin, and Sanskrit: reading proficiency.

Arabic: elementary level.

Personal

1990-2017 Mother to five beloved children: Fiona Dorothea, Stephanie Atara, Chloe Thalia, Aviva Charlotte Paula, and Joseph Leon.

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