Wendy Love Anderson is an educator, author, and community-builder who engages students in synagogues, universities, and Zoom meetings. Her scholarly writing deals with the past and present of Judaism and Christianity, separately and together; her rabbinic teaching and popular writing invites further exploration into how the past has shaped our present identities and how we can use it to create a better future.
Wendy holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School and an M.A. in Jewish Studies, as well as rabbinic ordination, from the Academy for Jewish Religion. She is currently Rabbi at Temple Israel of Albany, New York.
She serves on AJR‘s Board of Trustees and the Sounding Board for Bayit: Building Jewish. She is also co-chair of the American Academy of Religion‘s Childhood Studies and Religion Unit.
The image above shows the division of the Red Sea into one color for each Israelite tribe, according to Maimonides’ commentary on Pirke Avot. It comes from a late-thirteenth-century Italian manuscript, British Library Additional 14763, folio 135; the British Library has made it available for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY License.
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