Nerot's Women Of The Year

Please join us this Shabbat at 4:30pm as we welcome Ora Meier as our guest speaker.  Her topic will be "Israel’s Fertility: Does Setting Inspire Divergent Matriarchal Actions in Shir HaShirim and Ruth?"

Ora Bayewitz-Meier teaches Advanced Placement Art History, English Literature and Writing, Literature and Film Senior Elective, and co-teaches the Drawing from the Text Judaic Studies Senior Elective at SAR High School in Riverdale, New York for which Ms. Bayewitz-Meier and her co-teacher planned all aspects of publications of Shir HaShirim and Kohelet that feature her students’ visual interpretations of the text. She also directs the Community Service Program at SAR High School.

Prior to joining SAR in 2007, Ms. Bayewitz-Meier founded and headed the expansion of Project Sunshine's national hospital literacy program, Book Buddies. Ms. Bayewitz-Meier received her M.A. in English Education in 2007 from Teachers College, Columbia University and earned her B.A with a major in Art History in 2006 from Barnard College, Columbia University, Summa Cum Laude, where she was Phi Beta Kappa.