Maria Pulzetti
Special guest
Maria Pulzetti is is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and serves as a student rabbi at the Germantown Jewish Centre in Philadelphia. During Maria’s legal career, she worked at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia and as a public defender. Before that, she was the founding executive director of the Moscow-based Russian Justice Initiative, a human rights litigation project. When she was 18, she co-founded the Day of Silence, a student-led day of action against the silencing and erasure of LGBTQ people in schools. She is a graduate of Yale Law School.
Maria Pulzetti has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 56: Human Rights Attorney Turned Rabbinical Student Maria Pulzetti on Confronting Problematic Torah Verses and Examining Reproductive Justice Through a Jewish Lens
August 29th, 2024 | Season 1 | 1 hr 4 mins
abortion, bible, jew, jewish, jews, judaism, reconstructing judaism, reconstructionist, reconstructionist judaism, reproductive justice, reproductive rights
If we embrace Judaism, what do we do with passages from Torah and elsewhere that seem to directly undermine our worldviews and values? Human rights attorney turned rabbinical student Maria Pulzetti makes a compelling case that we should deal with these problematic biblical passages head-on.