The Haftarah Project: Bemidbar—Beyond the Theatrical Prophets
In this week's Haftarah Project, BJ member Rabbi Nancy Flam reflects on the haftarah for Bemidbar and the deeply unsettling imagery of Hosea. She challenges ...
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Rabbi Nancy Flam
Biography
Rabbi Nancy Flam is a pioneer in the field of Jewish healing and spirituality. Having co-founded the Jewish Healing Center in 1991, she then directed the Jewish Community Healing Program of Ruach Ami: Bay Area Jewish Healing Center in San Francisco until 1996.
Rabbi Flam served for five years as the founding Executive Director of The Institute for Jewish Spirituality (1999–2003), a retreat-based learning program for Jewish leaders, where she then worked as senior program director, heading the retreat-based learning programs for rabbis and for community leaders, directing the highly innovative Prayer Project, and teaching on the faculty of the Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training program. She retired from the Institute at the end of 2019.
Rabbi Flam teaches widely on the topics of Judaism, healing, and spirituality, and has written on these issues for such publications as Reform Judaism Magazine, CCAR Journal and Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility.
She is the proud mother of two fabulously menschlich children, a community-based organic vegetable farmer and a theoretical physicist, and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her beloved husband, friends, and synagogue community.
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Rabbi Nancy Flam