(48) An Excellent Jewish Learning Resource … With Audrey Lichter

About this episode

Audrey Lichter discusses her extensive experience in Jewish education and the Chai Mitzvah program.

Audrey Lichter is a long-time Jewish educator and community leader, and the founding Executive Director of the Chai Mitzvah program. Audrey has worked in Jewish education for over 30 years, including as the founding principal of Yachad, the community high school in Greater Hartford, Connecticut. She has been active as a lay leader, received community awards, and has been involved locally and nationally in Jewish day school and educational initiatives. Her leadership background and deep experience in Jewish learning helped shape Chai Mitzvah into a program that emphasizes personal meaning and lifelong Jewish engagement. She and her son Simon are the producers of a biweekly lecture series on Zoom called Scholar's Circle that features eminent scholars on topics relating to Israel, antizionism and antisemitism and the Middle East. Lectures are free and open to the public and can be accessed through the ChaiMitzvah website. Chai Mitzvah offers a huge array of Jewish study opportunities, suited to men, women and teens across all of Judaism. The books by Scott Shay that Audrey mentions are: Getting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry (2007); In Good Faith: Questioning…

People in this episode

Host: Mark Trencher

Guest: Audrey Lichter

Topics covered

• Jewish education
• community leadership
• lifelong Jewish engagement
• personal meaning
• Israel
• antisemitism

Keywords

• Jewish learning
• Chai Mitzvah
• education
• community
• Israel
• antisemitism
• Scott Shay

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chai Mitzvah, Yachad

Books & works: Getting Our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry, In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism, Conspiracy U: A Case Study

Places: Greater Hartford, Connecticut

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