Siona Benjamin is a feminist Indian-Jewish artist whose work has made a profound impact on individuals and communities. In this interview, Rabbi Jill Hammer speaks with Siona Benjamin about her art featuring biblical women and the divine feminine, and its cultural and philosophical roots.
Kohenet Ketzirah Lesser is a priestess, Jewitch, and sacred artist. In this interview, Rabbi Jill Hammer asks Kohenet Ketzirah about magic, art, portable altars, ritual, and mythological creatures.
Rabbi & Kohenet Jill Hammer interviews Rabbi Alan Brill, PhD about his work to understand Jewish mysticism as an embodied practice-- for kabbalistic and Hasidic writers of recent centuries, in today's world, and beyond. Alan Brill has written several books about Jewish mystical sources and about comparative religion, and has a great deal of experience with Hinduism…
Dr. Joy Ladin is a poet and the author of Shekhinah Speaks, as well as many other books including The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective. In this interview conducted by Rabbi Jill Hammer, Joy shares her experience of Shekhinah, the mysterious divine presence who is completely transcendent and completely intimate and defies all binaries.
Kohenet Angelique Rivera aka YA is a priestess co-creating collective medicine as an herbalist, energy healer, liberation activist, and poet crafting incantational wordplay. In this interview, conducted by Rabbi Jill Hammer, she shares about the many layers of her work, and her journey to come home to herself.
Rabbi Julia Watts Belser is a renowned Jewish scholar, the author of several books on rabbinic text, and the recent author of Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole. She discusses her book's themes and her personal journey in this interview conducted by Rabbi Jill Hammer.