“Fine, who makes it look chic to be frum, can give over a shiur which sends heads scrambling to keep up... One to watch in the years to come.”
“Gila Fine is part of a growing stream of Orthodox women who are not only studying, but embracing and teaching the Talmud, often challenging centuries of male interpretation and hegemony.”
“A wildly popular lecturer… Fine is fast becoming one of the most fascinating teachers in the field.”
“Charismatic and engaging, Gila Fine has the rare ability to make the ancient text come alive for a contemporary audience.”
“Dynamic, thought-provoking, and moving.”
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Gila Fine is a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, exploring the tales of the Talmud through philosophy, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and pop-culture. She is the recipient of the Maimonides Award for Excellence in Jewish Education, and serves on the faculties of the Nachshon Project, Amudim Seminary, the Tikvah Scholars Program, and the London School of Jewish Studies, in addition to teaching thousands of students at conferences, campuses, and communities across the Jewish world. Haaretz has called her “a young woman on her way to becoming one of the more outstanding Jewish thinkers of the next generation.”
As editor in chief of Maggid Books, Gila worked closely with such leading scholars as Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, publishing over a hundred titles of contemporary Jewish thought, including several bestsellers and eight National Jewish Book Award winners. She is also the former editor of Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation. Gila’s work has been featured in the BBC, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, Tradition, Jewish News, and The Jewish Chronicle (which selected her as one of the ten most influential Brits in Israel). Her new book is The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud.