Dr. Jane Shapiro is passionate about all aspects of Jewish teaching and learning. She has been a teacher to many over the last thirty five years, in classes ranging from weekly Torah study to Jewish thought, history, and literature and has worked with organizations which include the Florence Melton School, Camp Ramah, Spertus Institute for Learning and Leadership and Orot. She likes to explore new ways to assist learners in bringing Jewish wisdom into conversation with their lives Currently she is thinking and teaching about the spiritual practices of being a grandparent. She is a graduate of Princeton University, and received her doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary. In 2017 Jane received an Educators Award from the Covenant Foundation. In 2018 she was featured in an Eli talk on “The Torah of Bubbiehood.” She lives in Skokie, Illinois with her husband David and is also mother to four sons, mother-in-law to three daughters and grandmother to six. Learning will take place as part of a potluck lunch and babysitting will be provided.