Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework
Convention 2015 - “Desert Journeys”
May 31 - June 2, 2015
Convention 2015 Keynote Speaker
Professor Marcie Schoenberg Lee’s passion is
teaching and learning from those in her
university, adult education, and preschool
classes, as well as her Jewish, Christian,
Muslim and secular audiences around the
United States and abroad. She teaches the
Bible through art, ethics, human sexual
behavior, Judaism, child development, the
relationship of Hebrew and Christian Bibles,
and effective parenting.
Marcie trains religious school teachers, is a
child development consultant, and conducts
Sabbath services for AVIV of Arizona. She
Marcie Schoenberg Lee (left) with her daughter, Nira Lois Lee
uses the byline: ©”Have Texts Will Travel:
Teaching, Training, Tutoring”. Her essay “The
Magic of Sex-in-Text Education” appears in the brand new book, The Sacred Encounter,
Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality http://ccarpress.org/shopping_product_detail.asp?
pid=50134
Educated at the University of California (Bachelor of Arts), Hebrew Union College (Master of
Arts), and Arizona State University (Master of Social Work), cultural exchange programs
have taken Professor Lee to Germany, Turkey and Bosnia Herzegovina. See photos and a
movie of her December 2013 program “Does Your Child Understand You?” at Nahla in
Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina where she now teaches and lectures to diverse audiences
each year: http://nahla.ba/tekstovi3.aspx?tid=441&naslov=Prof.%20Marcie%20Lee%20u
%20Nahli
Marcie’s presentation at Convention 2015 will be “Juicy and Seedy: The Pomegranate in the
Hebrew Bible and Jewish Art”. Her lecture will center on the pomegranate’s pervasiveness in
Judaism as we view images of this extraordinary fruit in Jewish art. Marcie will address the
Convention following dinner on Sunday evening, May 31st.
Marcie requested that we use the photo above. She wrote “I have no inherent objection to
traditional head shots, but here is one other possibility -- this is me with my daughter, Nira
Lois Lee, who just completed four years of service in the Israel Defense Forces as a Lone
Soldier. The photo was taken in Israel at one of her officer promotion ceremonies.” Marcie
continued, “You may use this photo as long as everyone knows that, alas, I didn’t sew any of
that stuff on her uniform!! -- truth in advertising”.