Joel Lurie Grishaver
Joel Lurie Grishaver is a Jewish writer, teacher, cartoonist, and storyteller. He does scholar-in-residence weekends for your whole congregation.
Joel teaches Talmud, Kabbalah, theology, ethics, and Jewish thought to adults. He works with religious school classes, families, parents, and teachers.
A Grishaver weekend is a complete package.
In the past year Joel has…
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…been a synagogue scholar-in-residence.
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…been a community scholar-in-Residence.
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…delivered the Deena Grossman Memorial Lecture at Gratz College.
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…been a featured scholar at Limmud UK as well as at Limmud conferences in Istanbul, San Diego, and Atlanta.
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…been an invited teacher at the URJ Biennial.
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…coordinated the Consortium for the Jewish Family Conference at CAJE 32 and CAJE 33.
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…trained teachers in both synagogues and communities.
Joel Grishaver is a hammer for education. He pounds on the anvil of accepted wisdom and works curlicued miracles out of the staid and the commonplace. He combines the tradition of a maggid, the itinerant teller of the redemptive narrative, with the American Jewish story of the entrepreneur.
Rabbi Mark Boone Fitzerman,
Tulsa, Oklahoma
To begin planning your own Grishaver Weekend, call 888-231-4598, or email joel@torahaura.com.