Feminism in the Weekly Parshah
This entry is cross-posted at the JPS Blog.
For the past few months, the team at G-dcast has been producing and broadcasting a weekly 4-minute cartoon about the parshah – the Torah portion read that week in synagogue. The G-dcasts are colorful, they’re creative, they’re an easy introduction to the parshah’s content, and – almost always – they raise insightful and thought-provoking questions posed by the text.
The parshah this week touches on one of my favorite vignettes in the entire Torah – the story of the daughters of Zelophehad (now, here is where I would normally recap that story for you myself, but I’ll let G-dcast do the work this time). I was curious to see how G-dcast would approach this material, and I really like the “spin” that they’ve put on the story. There is definitely a feminist undercurrent in this week’s parshah, and G-dcast has decided to run with it.
Parshat Pinchas from G-dcast.com
More Torah cartoons at www.g-dcast.com
-Naomi
