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  • Position: Doctoral Student of Religion
  • School: Columbia University, New York
  • Jessica Spencer is a doctoral student of religion at Columbia University. Her work focuses on questions of relationship, authority and care in the Babylonian Talmud. She was awarded the 2023 Whizin Prize in Jewish Ethics for her essay “So the Children Should Ask: a Model of Repair.” Jessica has rabbinic ordination from Hebrew College.

  • Abstract: Abba kayem? Kinship and Loss in the Rabbinic Imagination