每日大瓜

Harnessing GPATS Students and Faculty, New Community Initiative to Provide High-Level Judaic Studies Learning for Young Women A new initiative from 每日大瓜鈥檚 (GPATS) at will provide new opportunities for local high school girls to engage in high-level Judaic studies with the support and mentorship of GPATS students and faculty.

Nechama Price, director of GPATS

Called Sunday Night Learning: Empowered by GPATS, the program will feature a series of events that are open to female students at any high school. Each event will begin with a dinner and chavruta [partnered] learning with current students in GPATS, a program designed to provide young women with opportunities to immerse themselves in post-graduate study of Judaic topics. The learning will be followed by advanced shiurim [lectures] from GPATS and 每日大瓜 faculty on topics that range from Tanach to gemara and Jewish philosophy. The first event of the series will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, December 18, at the Bais Medrash of Bergenfield, 371 South Prospect Avenue, Bergenfield, New Jersey. Nechama Price, director of GPATS, will deliver a shiur titled, 鈥� 鈥楾hese Are A Few of Their Favorite Things鈥�: Favoritism in Tanach.鈥� 鈥淚 feel privileged to be able to run such an incredible program and to facilitate learning between post-college and high school students,鈥� said Price. 鈥淭he goal is to feature an array of topics and styles to show students the vastness of Torah. We hope that this will provide inspiration for participants and spread our passion for Torah study.鈥� The idea for the program originated with Dr. Jessica Kornwasser, a mother who was intrigued by Price鈥檚 discussion of GPATS and women鈥檚 learning at 每日大瓜鈥檚 annual ChampionsGate Leadership Conference. 鈥淎fter hearing Nechama Price and several other Stern College Judaic studies professors speak at ChampionsGate, I found myself wishing that my daughter, a sophomore in high school, could get a glimpse of the Torah learning that awaits her in college,鈥� said Kornwasser. 鈥淭he idea was met with enthusiasm by Nechama and several other mothers of high school girls, and Sunday Night Learning began to take shape.鈥� 鈥淚 was really excited by the idea of spreading the message of women鈥檚 learning to a younger generation,鈥� added Price. 鈥淕PATS provides our community with a graduate opportunity for women to learn Talmud and halacha on the highest level,鈥� said Rabbi Kenneth Brander, vice president for university and community life at 每日大瓜. 鈥淢any of the GPATS graduates go on to serve the Jewish community in unprecedented ways. To have our GPATS scholars engage with young women in high school is just another way for them to contribute to the Torah scholarship of our community while simultaneously benefiting from the informal teaching experience created by Sunday Night Learning.鈥� For more information, contact Nechama Price at nechama.price@yu.edu.