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Lori Palatnik (born 1960) is an Orthodox Jewish outreach educator, blogger, author, and speaker. She is the founding director of the Jewish Women's Renaissance Project. ==Biography== Palatnik was born into a Conservative Jewish family〔Bochner, Rea. "This Week with Lori Palatnik". ''Ami Living'', 9 April 2014, pp. 28-29.〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lori Palatnik )〕 In 1985 she was a participant on the first Jerusalem Fellowships trip to Israel, and her experience was so positive that she decided to take time off to learn more about Judaism.〔Perkal, Esther. "Israel Trips: Transformative experiences". ''Hamodia'' Features, 26 May 2011, pp. C4–5.〕 She studied for a year〔 at the EYAHT and Neve Yerushalayim colleges for advanced Jewish learning in Jerusalem. She returned briefly to Toronto for a writing job for Aish HaTorah, and afterward returned to Israel, where she met her husband, Yaakov Palatnik, a native of Chicago.〔〔 and became an Orthodox Jewish outreach educator, public speaker, and author. They have five children. They were the founding rabbi and rebbetzin of Toronto's Village Shul, a family synagogue in Forest Hill, Toronto, which they led for 11 years.〔〔 During that time, Lori also hosted ''The Jewish Journal'', a Toronto television show. The Palatniks next moved to Denver, Colorado, where for the next four years〔 he worked with Aish Denver and she was educational and program director for the Aish-Ahavas Yisrael project. The couple also co-hosted a weekly Denver radio show called ''The Palatniks'' on 630-KHOW.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Red Tent Club for the Women's Division )〕 In 2005, the Palatniks relocated to Washington, D.C., where Rabbi Palatnik became executive director of Aish Washington, D.C.〔 and Lori became one of eight women founders of the Jewish Women's Renaissance Project, an outreach effort dubbed "Birthright for Women",〔 〕 which has brought over 4,000 women to Israel between 2009 and 2013 on a subsidized, 9-day〔 tour-and-learn program. A 2010 poll of tour participants revealed that "76 per cent increased their attendance at Jewish services, 90.3 per cent increased their Jewish learning, and 75.4 per cent increased their observance of Shabbat" after participating in the tour. Palatnik appears on her own weekly video blog, ''Lori Almost Live'', on the website of Aish.com,〔 HighBeam subscription〕 addressing a wide range of Jewish and Torah themes, including the soul and the afterlife, Jewish views on marriage, Torah values, and current events. She 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Presenter )〕 In addition to her books, she has contributed to the Aish HaTorah anthology, ''Heaven on Earth'' and ''Jewish Women Speak about Jewish Matters''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lori Palatnik」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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