Join us as we engage with Sarah Matthe’s “Golem” poem as an entry point for both bawdy and difficult Medieval, Modern, and Post-Modern golem tales that speak to issues of consent, agency, and the potential toxicities of mediated sexual experience.

Rabbi-Cantor Michael McCloskey is a inspiring and innovative teacher of Torah and thought leader. He has taught at the Toronto Jewish Music Festival, Hebrew College Open Circle Jewish Learning, through the Cantors Assembly, and currently is a Lecturer at the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York. The Rav-Chazzan at Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill, he has had writing published in AJS Perspectives, Masorti: The New Journal of Conservative Judaism, and Exploring Judaism, among others. He is also an accomplished composer and pianist. In his spare time he loves to boulder and read cosmic horror.