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Lisa Septimus

Jun 5, 2020, 7:37 PM

Overhead view of an anti-police brutality Black Lives Matter protest rally on Third Avenue on June 2, 2020, in New York City. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Are our black neighbors comfortable? Do we stop ourselves from making racist jokes and refuse to tolerate them at all? Examining our own conduct is our first step forward

Dec 17, 2014, 9:40 AM

Women Lighting Chanukah Candles: Is it playing with fire?

There is a discussion about the how to light Chanukah candles in Mashechet Shabbat 21b. The basic requirement of the mitzvah is that each household lights one candle for each of the eight nights. The mehadrin, those who beautify...

Oct 23, 2014, 11:20 PM

Nurturing Our Sacred Space

My email, Facebook, and Jewish media resources are inundated by the many articles and posts circulating about the recent alleged abuses by a prominent DC rabbi. Unfortunately this is not the first scandal to affect the Jewish community. Nonetheless,...

About Me

Lisa Septimus is a Yoetzet Halacha for a consortium of synagogues in Manhattan and of the Five Towns. A graduate of Stern College’s Graduate Program for Advanced Talmudic Studies, she subsequently served as the program’s shoelet u’meishiva. She teaches Talmud, Chumash, and Ethics at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck, NY, where she also coordinates informal education programs and serves as Dean of the Class of 2016. In her active role as rebbetzin at the Young Israel of North Woodmere (NY) she is integrally involved with adult education and youth programming. She has taught at The Jewish Center in Manhattan, Riverdale Jewish Center, Drisha, and Yeshiva University’s Summer Learning Program. She and her husband, Rabbi Yehuda Septimus, are the parents of four young children.