September 25, 2020
Reading Jonah with Israel’s Leading Female Religious Educator
For Yemimah Mizrachi, it’s the simple folk who matter.
While few in America may have heard of her, the religious educator Yemima Mizrachi has a large and diverse following in Israel, with thousands (in pre-coronavirus times) attending or watching online her weekly sermons and reading her newsletters. Thanks to the recently published translation of her writings about Yom Kippur, titled Yearning to Return, some of her output is now available to an English-speaking audience. In her review, Sarah Rindner delves into Mizrachi’s analysis of the book of Jonah, which is read in its entirety during the holiday’s afternoon service.
September 25, 2020
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Reading Jonah with Israel’s Leading Female Religious Educator
For Yemimah Mizrachi, it’s the simple folk who matter.