“Pardes has completely exceeded my expectations. I feel blessed and thankful to be learning in a place that gives everybody the chance to come as they are and find their own perspective on the text. One of the things 
that makes learning at Pardes so special for me is the fact that each of our teachers has his or her own project/s that have studied in depth. Each course, no matter how introductory, is part of someone’s project, part of someone’s life effort to understand a certain aspect of Jewish textual tradition and Jewish reality. This is how we all learn to relate to the texts from the point of view of they way of life they are referring to and describing but also from the point of view of their meaning in the contexts of our own concerns and hopes.”
I was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. I grew up totally secular and my connection with Judaism only started to have a relevant role in my life in the context of deciding my PhD topic. I made Aliyah in 2014 and got my PhD in June 2017 in a Joint PhD program between the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I have devoted my time in the last years to the exploration of identity questions, focusing on Sephardic Jewish identity. My academic work has been my way of approaching concerns that had to do with life, Jewish life and our attempts to navigate conflict.
