The Rabbinic Arts Company draws on Judaism’s rich history of text and ritual to develop a modern-day practice of rabbinic arts, centering female-identified and non-binary voices.
Rabbinic Arts with "70 Faces of Torah": Limmud Global Day of Learning
Sunday, November 9th, virtual
one-hour, 9am PT / 11am CT / 12pm ET
"Reverse Engineering the Oven of Aknai"
Text-(un)learning and film showing (Hebrew and English, no prior text-study required)
Come learn the famous Talmudic tale "The Oven of Aknai" but backwards. Find out why the end is really the beginning, and experience how this led to a queer'd retelling by Rabbinic Arts. Sign up here for the zoom link: Reverse Engineering the Oven of Aknai
Our Vision
The Rabbinic Arts Company (R-Arts) envisions a world in which Jewish art and Jewishness are acknowledged as essential to contemporary life and culture. Through the fusion of textual rigor and artistic excellence, we seek to uncover essential human truths and to cultivate a global love of and appreciation for Judaism.
Our Work
R-Arts trains artists in and supports the production of contemporary works of Jewish performance art that organically intertwine contemporary, cutting-edge performance practice with in-depth rabbinic interpretative tradition-- i.e.- the stuff that has made Judaism compelling and ever-evolving for millennia. R-Arts centers the voices most marginalized in Jewish history—those of women and non-binary identified folks, because we believe in the essential, radical wisdom held by those who either feel on the outside or are made to feel on the outside, much like the early rabbis themselves.
