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Kohenet, Dr. Emily Leah Silverman is a Visiting Scholar at The Graduate Theological Union. Berkeley, CA. She received Smicha (ordination) from the Hebrew Priestess Institute and is recent Past President of American Academy of Religion Western Region. Silverman has developed the field study of Feminist Theology of Spiritual Resistance Her current research is on the Feminist theology of Spiritual Resilience and Resistance of Jewish Women during the Nazi Holocaust. She most recently was an invited lecturer at University of Wales and was formerly a lecturer at San Jose State University and taught at Graduate Theological Union. Dr Silverman also investigates the reclaiming and retrieval of Hebrew Priestess lineage, their 12 spiritual pathways and practice. Dr Silverman was the organizer of Rosemary Radford Ruether Frestschrift and co-edited with Dirk Von der Horst and Whitney Bauman “Voices of Feminist Liberation: Writing in Celebrations of Rosemary Ruether.” Silverman has also published “Edith Stein and Regina Jonas: Religious Visionaries of the Death Camps.” Silverman is a sort after invited speaker who presently teaches at the Aquarian Minyan Yeshiva. She holds an Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and PhD from the GTU.