Yael Unterman

Yael Unterman is an author, editor, international speaker, and lecturer at Shalem College.

Her two books are Nehama Leibowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar (National Jewish Book Awards finalist) and The Hidden of Things: Twelve Stories of Long & Longing (USA Best Book Awards finalist).

She has facilitated hundreds of workshops in Bibliodrama, a deep interpretation technique invented by Prof. Peter Pitzele, and offers a weekly Bibliodrama on zoom. Visit www.yaelunterman.com.

  • A Tongue-in-Cheek Tribute to Rabbi Cardozo, from the Think Tank Members, in Honor of his Recent 70th Birthday

    By Yael Unterman

    A light-hearted look at a typical DCA think tank meeting, in honor of Rabbi Cardozo's 70th Birthday. Happy Birthday Rav Cardozo!

  • The Inescapable Obligation to Care For the Wicked

    In Jewish Thought and Philosophy by Yael Unterman

    If you were Abraham, would you have interceded for Sodom? Do you think that he was delighted at the existence of an entire city filled with evil as Sodom was? This man who the midrash describes as cursing the builders of the Tower of Babel for caring more for the loss of bricks than of human laborers? The answer is no, undoubtedly their behaviour nauseated him; yet still he tried to salvage it through the presence of ten righteous inhabitants.

  • The Hidden of Things

    Twelve Stories of Love & Longing

    By Yael Unterman

    In these charming - and sometimes provocative - short stories, young men and women in Jerusalem, London, and New York seek identity, spiritual clarity, and that nice Jewish girl or boy.

  • Nehama Leibowitz

    Teacher and Bible Scholar

    By Yael Unterman

    Documenting the life story, inspiring personality, and scholarship of Nehama Leibowitz, a recipient of the Israel Prize in Education, this biography discusses her strong views on issues such as Zionism, humanism, and feminism, as well as the influences that shaped her. The book also examines her pioneering approach to the study of the Hebrew Bible […]