{"id":353,"date":"2016-08-31T00:33:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T00:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulanuarchive.kulanu.org\/?p=353"},"modified":"2019-04-08T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:36:14","slug":"kulanus-2016-speaking-tour-jewish-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/kulanus-2016-speaking-tour-jewish-madagascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kulanu\u2019s 2016 Speaking Tour: Jewish Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 15, 2016<\/p>\n<p>The Kulanu 2016 Speaker\u2019s Tour<\/p>\n<p>Meet our 2016 speaker, Elysha from Madagascar<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3219 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Elysha-Netsarh-photo-by-Joshua-Kristal-for-Kulanu-2016-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Elysha Netsarh- photo by Joshua Kristal for Kulanu, 2016\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Each year, Kulanu brings a speaker from an isolated Jewish community to tour the US, offering synagogues, schools, universities, and other institutions the opportunity to learn about Jewish global diversity first hand.<\/div>\n<div>Later this year,<strong>Elysha Netsarh<\/strong>\u00a0will join us from Madagascar to share her story of the process that led to her formal conversion in May 2016 along with the rest of her community. A multimedia presentation will bring to life her experience of practicing Judaism on this African island.<\/div>\n<div>A researcher and teacher, Elysha earned her PhD in plant chemistry from the University of Paris. Fluent in three languages, she\u00a0is in the process of preparing a Hebrew-Malagasy prayer book and Chumash. Elysha\u00a0leads a\u00a0women\u2019s\u00a0chevruta\u00a0(partnered) study group on Jewish texts. She hopes to establish a Hebrew school for children in the future.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?m=1113192074536&amp;ca=2cd7880d-b86b-46af-8140-8dd34fee4896\">(more\u2026)<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 15, 2016 The Kulanu 2016 Speaker\u2019s Tour Meet our 2016 speaker, Elysha from Madagascar Each year, Kulanu brings a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kulanu\u2019s 2016 Speaking Tour: Jewish Madagascar - Kulanu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 15, 2016 The Kulanu 2016 Speaker\u2019s Tour Meet our 2016 speaker, Elysha from Madagascar Each year, Kulanu brings a speaker from an isolated Jewish\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kulanu.org\/archive\/kulanus-2016-speaking-tour-jewish-madagascar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kulanu\u2019s 2016 Speaking Tour: Jewish Madagascar - 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