Torah in the Tarot

Sunday, October 12, 2025

10:30 PM

Arts & Culture

Torah in the Tarot

Ring Community Center at Luria Academy

664 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA

Come explore the deep historic and contemporary connection between Tarot and Jewish thought. In this exciting event, attendees will learn from and engage with historian Stav Appel about the connections between the Tarot de Marseille — the artistic ancestor of the Tarot cards we know today — and Jewish faith and oppression, uncovering hidden Jewish symbols which have shaped the contemporary Tarot we know today.

Following this interactive exploration, Stav is joined by Jewish Tarot practitioners and Kabbalists Alexandra Neuman and Mark Horn for a conversation on the form, function, and fortune found in contemporary Tarot practice, facilitated by Caro Sarkozi.

This event has a limited number of slots available for guests to have their Tarot read by Alexandra or Mark either before or after the event. To book a reading, purchase a ticket that includes a reading either before the panel (6:20 PM - 7:10 PM) or after the panel (8:30 PM - 9:00 PM) based on your availability. The Neighborhood will reach out to you with more details upon this registration type.

This event will take place as part of Sukkot in The Neighborhood – a festival of Jewish arts, culture, and spirituality taking place in an art installation Sukkah in Brooklyn. Check out the full line-up of events here.

If price is an obstacle to your participation in this event, please reach out to info@theneighborhoodbk.org to request an accommodation.

Featuring

Stav Appel

Stav Appel is a data scientist and a lifelong student of Torah. Earlier in his career he was the director of the Israeli-Palestinian coexistence organization Nitzanei Shalom, and the director of International Service Programs for American Jewish World Service. He holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and has studied Biblical Hebrew at Hebrew University and Yale Divinity School.

After a chance encounter with an old deck of Tarot cards, Stav began to explore the origins and meaning of the biblical references he recognized in its images. He is now a frequent speaker and popular writer on the Torah in the Tarot, the lost and forgotten Judaic origins of the mysterious Tarot de Marseille. He currently resides in New Salem, NY. Find Stav on Instagram @torah.tarot.

Alexandra Neuman

Drawing on ideas from postcolonial theory and multi-species feminism, her work focuses on reframing human 'being' as an ecological process rather than as an individual body or self. She received a BFA in Visual Arts and Anthropology from Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA in Visual Arts and Speculative Design at University of California, San Diego. She is a past participant of the Arteles Residency in Haukijarvi, Finland, PRAKSIS Residency in Oslo, Norway, The Live-Art Ireland Residency, and the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin. Her films have shown at Anthology Film Archives, Nitehawk Cinema, Miriam Gallery, Museum of the Moving Image, Performance Space, and Museum of Sex. Her works have been featured in Hyperallergic, I-D Italy, Sajetta Magazine, Sex & Psychedelics Magazine, Precog Magazine, and Cyberfeminism Index (Inventory Press). She is a Webby Award Honoree as well as a recipient of the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) grant at The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. Neuman published a book and tarot deck with Onomatopee Projects in Eindhoven, Netherlands. She is currently providing end-of-life care at NYU Langone Hospital.

Mark Horn

Mark Horn may be the only person who has taught at both the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Readers’ Studio International Tarot Conference. He is the author of Tarot and the Gates of Light: A Kabbalistic Path to Liberation, an innovative, spiritual workbook that has won praise from two groups that don’t usually agree—both respected rabbis and recognized Tarot experts. He has studied Kabbalah with academic, rabbinic, and practical teachers in organizations ranging from the highly respected to the highly unorthodox. And he has studied Tarot with many of today’s most authoritative teachers. Myth, Midrash, and sacred stories from many traditions have always been central to his teaching of Kabbalistic Tarot. He has taught at conferences such as The Masters of Tarot Conference at the Omega Institute, StaarCon, the Northwest Tarot Symposium, and at meet-ups from Albuquerque to Tokyo, as well as at synagogues, including Romemu, Temple Beth-El of City Island, and The Village Shul. He is available for readings and events and offers classes in Kabbalistic tarot. You can learn more at gatesoflighttarot.com

Caro Sarkozi

Caro Sarkozi is a Brooklyn-based writer, creative producer, and tarot reader. Her work on Jewish life and culture has appeared in Hey Alma and Kveller, exploring topics ranging from Jewish ritual to identity to pop culture. She has spoken on spirituality, language, and identity in her TEDx talk Naming God to Find God. In 2021, Caro launched a tarot project on TikTok exploring the intersection of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and tarot. She continues to create thoughtful, playful content at the crossroads of mental health, Jewish identity, and the mystical arts.

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