Join us as we utilize Becky Chambers’ utopian novel Psalm for the Wild-Built as a canvas for engagement with the motive of the earth-based golem and its Tellurian powers. How do the feminism and environmental consciousness and restitution manifested in these narratives help us imagine a better future?

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.