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'''Lori Palatnik''' (b. 1960<ref name="rockland" />) is a Jewish educator, public speaker and author. She is the founding director of the Jewish Women's Renaissance Project, dubbed "[[Birthright Israel|Birthright]] for Women",<ref name="week" /> which has brought over 1,000 women to Israel since the summer of 2009 on a subsidized, 9-day tour-and-learn program.<ref name="week">{{cite web |url= http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=80&SubSectionID=100&ArticleID=13628 |title=Two local finalists for Jewish heroes contest |publisher=[[Washington Jewish Week]]|date=25 October 2010 |accessdate=1 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3983666,00.html |title=Israeli, American Women Bond in Desert |last=Yasur |first=Meital |date=14 November 2010 |publisher=[[Ynetnews]]|accessdate=1 December 2010}}</ref> She also appears on her own weekly [[Video blogging|video blog]], "Lori Almost Live", on the website of [[Aish HaTorah|Aish.com]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1419490781.html |title=Yeshiva holds gala |date=10 January 2008 |accessdate=1 December 2010 |publisher=Washington Jewish Week}}</ref> which is seen by 50,000 viewers each month.<ref name="dc">{{cite web |url=http://www.aishdc.org/new/aishdcstaff.php |title=Lori Palatnik |publisher=Aish DC/MD/VA |accessdate=1 December 2010}}</ref> In 2010, she was one of 20 semi-finalists for the [[Jewish Community Heroes]] award presented by the [[Jewish Federations of North America]].<ref name="week" />
'''Lori Palatnik''' (b. 1960<ref name="rockland" />) is a Jewish educator, public speaker and author. She is the founding director of the Jewish Women's Renaissance Project, dubbed "[[Birthright Israel|Birthright]] for Women",<ref name="week" /> which has brought over 3,000 women to Israel since the summer of 2009 on a subsidized, 9-day tour-and-learn program.<ref name="week">{{cite web |url= http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=80&SubSectionID=100&ArticleID=13628 |title=Two local finalists for Jewish heroes contest |publisher=[[Washington Jewish Week]]|date=25 October 2010 |accessdate=1 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3983666,00.html |title=Israeli, American Women Bond in Desert |last=Yasur |first=Meital |date=14 November 2010 |publisher=[[Ynetnews]]|accessdate=1 December 2010}}</ref> She also appears on her own weekly [[Video blogging|video blog]], "Lori Almost Live", on the website of [[Aish HaTorah|Aish.com]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1419490781.html |title=Yeshiva holds gala |date=10 January 2008 |accessdate=1 December 2010 |publisher=Washington Jewish Week}}</ref> which is seen by 50,000 viewers each month.<ref name="dc">{{cite web |url=http://www.aishdc.org/new/aishdcstaff.php |title=Lori Palatnik |publisher=Aish DC/MD/VA |accessdate=1 December 2010}}</ref> In 2010, she was one of 20 semi-finalists for the [[Jewish Community Heroes]] award presented by the [[Jewish Federations of North America]].<ref name="week" />


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 19:07, 26 August 2012

Lori Palatnik
Born1960[1]
Toronto, Canada
Occupation(s)Jewish educator, author, video blogger

Lori Palatnik (b. 1960[1]) is a Jewish educator, public speaker and author. She is the founding director of the Jewish Women's Renaissance Project, dubbed "Birthright for Women",[2] which has brought over 3,000 women to Israel since the summer of 2009 on a subsidized, 9-day tour-and-learn program.[2][3] She also appears on her own weekly video blog, "Lori Almost Live", on the website of Aish.com,[4] which is seen by 50,000 viewers each month.[5] In 2010, she was one of 20 semi-finalists for the Jewish Community Heroes award presented by the Jewish Federations of North America.[2]

Biography

Palatnik was born in Toronto, Canada. She majored in communications at the University of Windsor and earned a special degree in advertising. She began her career in radio copywriting.[5] In 1985 she was a participant on the first Jerusalem Fellowships trip to Israel sponsored by Aish HaTorah, and her experience was so positive that she decided to take time off to learn more about Torah Judaism.[6] She studied at the EYAHT and Neve Yerushalayim colleges for advanced Jewish learning in Jerusalem, and was introduced to her husband, Yaakov Palatnik, a native of Chicago.[5]

Since their marriage, she and her husband have both been affiliated with the international centers run by Aish HaTorah. They were the founding Rav and Rebbetzin of Aish HaTorah's Village Shul,[5] a family synagogue in Forest Hill, Toronto, which they led for 10 years. During that time, Lori also hosted The Jewish Journal, a Toronto television show.[7] The Palatniks next moved to Denver, Colorado, where he worked with Aish Denver[8] and she was educational and program director for the Aish-Ahavas Yisrael project.[9] The couple also co-hosted a weekly Denver radio show called The Palatniks on 630-KHOW.[10]

In 2005, the Palatniks and their five children relocated to Washington, D.C., where Rabbi Palatnik became executive director of Aish Washington, D.C.[5] and Lori became one of eight women founders of the Jewish Women's Renaissance Project,[11] an outreach effort established in 2008 which has brought over 1000 women from South Africa, Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica, Canada and the United States to Israel on a subsidized, 9-day "Transform and Grow" tour. The participants must be non-Sabbath-observant, have children at home, and be physically and emotionally healthy. The goal is for participants to return home to influence their families, circumventing the need for outreach to their children when they come of age. A study of tour participants revealed that one in three moved their children from public school to a Jewish day school, the husband increased his Torah study, and the family increased their donations to Jewish charities.[6]

Palatnik has recorded hundreds of Lori Almost Live video blogs for aish.com, addressing a wide range of Jewish and Torah themes, including the soul and the afterlife, Jewish views on marriage, Torah values, current events, and much more.[12]

Palatnik is a popular speaker for women's groups and Jewish conferences in North America, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Central America, South America and Israel.[13][14][15][16][17][18]

In addition to her books, she has contributed to the Aish HaTorah anthology, Heaven on Earth[19] and Jewish Women Speak about Jewish Matters.[20]

Kidney donor

In 2008, Palatnik revealed that she had donated her kidney to a stranger. She explained her rationale in an article on Aish.com,[21] in a live video performance,[22] and in speeches covered by local press.[23][24]

Honors

In 2010, she was a semi-finalist for the Jewish Community Heroes award presented by the Jewish Federations of North America. She received 25,208 online votes[25] out of 311,265 votes cast.[26]

Her 2002 book, Gossip: Ten Pathways to Eliminate It from Your Life and Transform Your Soul (co-authored with Bob Burg) was featured on the Dr. Laura show as a recommended book.[27]

Bibliography

Books

  • Friday Night and Beyond: The Shabbat experience step-by-step, 1977[28]
  • Gossip: Ten Pathways to Eliminate It from Your Life and Transform Your Soul (with Bob Burg), 2002[29]
  • Remember My Soul: What to do in memory of a loved one — A path of reflection and inspiration for shiva, the stages of Jewish mourning, and beyond (with Rabbi Yaakov Palatnik), K'hal Publishing, 2008[30]

Audio cassettes

  • Holy Diner: Shabbat, 20-cassette series, 1999[31]

References

  1. ^ a b "Lori Palatnik, Rockville, MD". jewishrockland.org. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "Two local finalists for Jewish heroes contest". Washington Jewish Week. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  3. ^ Yasur, Meital (14 November 2010). "Israeli, American Women Bond in Desert". Ynetnews. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  4. ^ "Yeshiva holds gala". Washington Jewish Week. 10 January 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Lori Palatnik". Aish DC/MD/VA. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  6. ^ a b Perkal, Esther. "Israel Trips: Transformative experiences". Hamodia Features, 26 May 2011, pp. C4–5.
  7. ^ Woldoff, Leisah (13 December 2007). "It's About the Marriage, Not the Wedding". jewishjournal.com. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  8. ^ "About the Author: Rabbi Yaakov Palatnik". aish.com. 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  9. ^ "Lori Palatnik – A short biography" (PDF). Clayhill United Synagogue Newsheet. 13 November 2004. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  10. ^ "The Red Tent Club for the Women's Division". jewishhowardcounty.org. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  11. ^ "The Utah-8 Mission: To create a movement that would bring values back to the world". Jewish Women's Renaissance Project. 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  12. ^ "List of "Lori Almost Live" video blogs". Aish.com. 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  13. ^ "About the Presenter". Project Sinai. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  14. ^ Fine, Arlene (29 December 2000). "Bringing Jewish values home...and beyond: Noted author and lecturer Lori Palatnik will speak here on the soul and the afterlife". Cleveland Jewish News. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  15. ^ "First Annual Houston Conference for Jewish Women will be a Hard Act to Follow". Jewish Herald-Voice. 1 October 2003. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  16. ^ "Women Need a Place of Their Own to Talk About Life Issues". The New Standard. 25 January 2006. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  17. ^ "Lori Palatnik Returns to Houston for the ASCENT Mini-Conference". jhvonline.com. 29 January 2009. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  18. ^ "YL Eastern Regional Conference: Confirmed Speakers". Jewish Federations of North America. 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  19. ^ Coopersmith, Nechemia; Simmons, Shraga (2002). Heaven on Earth: Down-to-earth Jewish spirituality. Targum Press. ISBN 1-56871-206-5.
  20. ^ Palatnik, Lori (1 January 2000), "Leah and the Lesson of Gratitude", Jewish Women Speak About Jewish Matters, Targum/Feldheim, pp. 97–99, ISBN 978-1-56871-151-5, retrieved 1 December 2010
  21. ^ Palatnik, Lori (2 February 2008). "A Kidney To Give: Why I donated my kidney to someone I didn't know". aish.com. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  22. ^ "Why I Donated a Kidney to a Total Stranger", live video by Lori Palatnik in 4 parts: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV.
  23. ^ Benari, Elad (15 December 2009). "Save a Life, Make a Life". Shalom Life. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
  24. ^ Blackman, Carolyn (23 December 2009). "Kidney donor calls it greatest experience of her life". Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  25. ^ "Lori Palatnik - Rockville, District of Columbia". jewishcommunityheroes.org. 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  26. ^ "Welcome to Jewish Community Heroes". jewishcommunityheroes.org. 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  27. ^ "Recommended Books: Gossip: Ten Pathways to Eliminate It from Your Life and Transform Your Soul". drlaura.com. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  28. ^ Palatnik, Lori (1999). Friday Night and Beyond: The Shabbat Experience Step-By-Step. Jason Aronson. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  29. ^ Palatnik, Lori; Burg, Bob (2002). Gossip: Ten Pathways to Eliminate It from Your Life and Transform Your Soul. Simcha Press. ISBN 0-7573-0055-3. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  30. ^ Palatnik, Lori; Yaakov (2008). Remember My Soul: What to Do in Memory of a Loved One: A Path of Reflection and Inspiration for Shiva, the Stages of Jewish Mourning, and Beyond. K'hal Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60204-014-4. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  31. ^ "Holy Diner:Shabbat". goodreads.com. Retrieved 1 December 2010.

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