Biography

Dr. Aliza Lavie

Dr. Aliza Lavie in the
School of Communication
at Bar-Ilan University

Jewish Woman’s Prayer
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To Be a Jewish Woman
By Lavie, A., & Cohen, T.
(Eds.). (2005).
Jerusalem: Kolech

Dr. Aliza Lavie (b. 1964), is a lecturer in communications in the School of Communication at Bar Ilan University, as well as a writer, publicist, and social activist. Her research focuses on communications, multi-culturalism, and the place of women in Judaism, while her public activity involves issues of society, gender, and Jewish culture. Aliza is a prominent figure in Jewish cultural discourse in Israel. As a scholar and writer she seeks to extract answers from the past for the here and now, and to introduce them into the public sphere.

Her work "A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book" is an international best-seller and won a National Jewish Book Award. The original Hebrew edition, published in Israel by Yedioth Aharonoth, has already achieved a "Golden Edition", having sold more than 150,000 copies. The English edition was published in New York by Random House. An Italian edition has already been published and the book is soon to be translated into other languages, including Spanish and Russian.

Aliza's bar-mitzvah anthology, "The Jewish Backpack: A Bar Mitzvah Odyssey Through the Jewish World", was published in Israel by Koren. "To Be a Jewish Woman" was co-edited by Aliza Lavie and Prof. Tova Cohen.

Aliza is a sought-after lecturer in Israel and overseas on diverse topics including women's prayer, Jewish culture and identity, Israeli society, and Israeli-Diaspora relations.

In the public and social realm, Lavie is a member of the Second TV and Radio Authority Council, and a lobbyist on behalf of IDF soldiers undergoing conversion to Judaism. She is the chairman of the Matan Women's Beit Midrash (Religious Study Center) in Netanya, as well of the steering committee of the "Be-Tzavta" forum for Jewish-Israeli discourse in Tel Aviv. Aliza is also a member of the Kolech forum for religious women and a board member of the "Izun" center for treatment and rehabilitation of youth in drug-related or spiritual crisis following backpacking trips overseas.
Having served in the IDF as a soldier-teacher, and afterwards as a tour-guide for the Society for the Preservation of Nature in Israel, Aliza and her husband, Zuriel Lavie, spent a year backpacking in the Far East, and were also emissaries of the Bnei Akiva youth movement to the Jewish community in Durban, South Africa. The couple has four children.

Aliza's public activity began in 1988, when she was advisor to Shaul Yahalom, then-political secretary of the Mafdal (National-Religious) party. She was Executive Director of the Public Council for Youth Exchange between 1990-1996.

Her doctoral thesis, "Radio and Gender in Israel", focused on the issue of gender in news and current events programs on public radio. Her research represented one of the earliest attempts at a combined analysis of gender, media products, and the organizational structure. She spent the 2008-2009 academic year as a research fellow at Brandeis University.

Aliza has hosted and moderated various programs on Israeli TV and radio, and she edits and moderates a weekly TV show on Jewish culture. She also authors frequent opinion pieces on current events for the press.

Social Activities:

• Member of The Second Authority for Television and Radio

• (Former) Member of Executive Board of“Your Voice - Kolech" – Religious Women’s Forum

• Winner of Medal for Citizen's Rights – Kolech

• Chairperson of Matan (a women’s Torah-study center) in Netanya

• Advisor for Tenders for Regional Radio (2008)

• Content Advisor for The Second Authority for Television and Radio (2005)

• Member of Directorate of Izun village, Israeli Center for Treatment of Traveling Young Israeli Hallucinogenic Drug Victims

• Member of the executive committee and education committee of the Israeli Youth Hostels Association

• (Former) PTA Chairperson of Yavneh Religious Elemantary School in Netanya

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