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Rabbi Miriam-Simma Walfish is a doctoral candidate in Rabbinics in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Her specific interests include rabbinic approaches to gender, parenting, and education. Her article, “Upending the Curse of Eve: Reframing Maternal Breastfeeding in BT Ketubot,” was published in the 2017 volume Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination. Rabbi Walfish has taught Tanakh, Talmud, and Jewish Law in numerous settings including the Conservative Yeshiva, Hadar Institute, Harvard University, Hebrew College, and the National Havurah Committee’s summer institute. She revels in the process of learning Torah with and from her students.

