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Eliana Light
August 17, 2020

Let’s Not Forget G!d

Kenissa Eliana Light

This week’s post is by Eliana Light, who crafts ritual, writes music, trains educators, and consults with communities to bring this vision to life.

She focuses on translating liturgy, prayer practice, and G!D-concepts in ways that are deep and accessible for all people and all ages.

Casey Krebs
August 10, 2020

Deepening Jewish Life through Food

Kenissa Casey Krebs

This week’s post is by Casey Krebs is the founder of Latkes and Babka in Kingston, ON

Latkes and Babka connects over our love for food and passion for tzedakah.

Kohenet Ketzirah Lesser
August 3, 2020

Developing a “Sacred Arts” Practice

Kenissa Kohenet Ketzirah Lesser

This week’s post is by Kohenet Ketzirah Lesser, founder of Devotaj Sacred Arts in Washington, DC.

Devotaj s a radical collaboration of artists, makers, practitioners and supporters that is rooted in Jewish mystical, magickal, healing, and folk practices across space, time, and all the worlds.

Stuart Himmelfarb
July 27, 2020

Engaging Boomers in Jewish Life

Kenissa Stuart Himmelfarb

This week’s post is by Stuart Himmelfarb, co-founder of B3, which is housed at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

B3 is committed to Boomer engagement and changing the conversation about aging.

Denise Handlarski
July 20, 2020

Secular Synagogues and Online Judaism

Kenissa Rabbi Denise Handlarski

This week’s post is by Rabbi Denise Handlarski, the creator and spiritual leader of the online community SecularSynagogue.com.

The goal of Secular Synagogue community is to explore how Judaism can be an enriching force in your life and, in turn, make you a more kind, just, and effective force for good in the world.

Andrew Hahn
July 13, 2020

The Wellfont of Overflowing Love

Kenissa Rabbi Andrew Hahn

This week’s post is by Rabbi Andrew Hahn, who has pioneered Kirtan in the Jewish world, offering communal call-and-response chant concerts and meditation seminars around the world.

Kirtan (also known as Bhajan) is a form of chant developed in India to heighten participation, communal feeling and ecstatic communion with the divine.

Justin Goldstein
July 6, 2020

Return to the Land; Return to the Tradition

Kenissa Rabbi Justin Goldstein

This week’s post is by Rabbi Justin Goldstein, the Scholar-in-Residence of Yesod Farm+Kitchen, a small regenerative farm and educational space, in Fairview, NC.

Yesod Farm+Kitchen is a community space dedicated to regenerative agriculture, earth-based Jewish living, and growing relationships across difference.

Sherril Gilbert
June 29, 2020

Examining Values at a Start-Up Shul

Kenissa Rabbi Sherrill Gilbert

This week’s post is by Rabbi Sherril Gilbert is co-founder/co-spiritual leader of Montreal Open Shul and Executive Director of ALEPH Canada.

Montreal Open Shul dedicated to creating and celebrating innovative and inclusive opportunities for contemplative and experiential Jewish practice, life cycle rituals, learning, community building, and social change. ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal is a trans-denominational approach to revitalizing Judaism.

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June 22, 2020

Increasing Jewish Engagement through the Arts

Kenissa David Franklin

This week’s post is by David Franklin, exhibit curator and co-founding creator of Jews, Rock and Roll Film and pop-up exhibit.

Jews and Rock and Roll is about an immigrant generation seeking to reinvent themselves who wind up transforming America.

Shana Erenberg
June 15, 2020

Jewish Life Through a Disability Lens

Kenissa Dr. Shana Erenberg

This week’s post is by Dr. Shana Erenberg, co-founder and Executive Director of Libenu in Chicago, Illinois.

Libenu provides housing, vocational training, recreational programs, and respite services for children and adults with disabilities.

Jessy Dressin
June 8, 2020

Relevance and Resonance on a Spectrum of the Universal and Particular

Kenissa Rabbi Jessy Dressin

This week’s post is by Rabbi Jessy Dressin, Director of Repair the World/Baltimore and continues to serve as a community rabbi with a unique lens to next generation behaviors and identification.

Repair the World Baltimore was founded in 2013 to mobilize Jews and their communities to take action to pursue a just world.

Bradley Cook
June 1, 2020

Merging Career Advancement and Jewish Wisdom

Kenissa Bradley Caro Cook

This week’s post is by Bradley Caro Cook, Ed.D. is a social entrepreneur, civic leader, and Jewish educator. He strives to bring equity, inclusion, and universal Jewish wisdom in all of his community building endeavors. He currently serves as the executive director of CareerUpNow.org, chair of The City of Beverly Hills Entrepreneurship Incubator, and director of Growth Exponential.

Growth Exponential is a tech company pioneering growth hacking methodologies for nonprofits.

David Chack
May 25, 2020

Arts and Culture: For a Transformational Jewish Community

Kenissa David Chack

This week’s post is by David Chack, faculty at DePaul University/Chicago in Holocaust Theatre and Performance and Theatre of Identity including Jewish cultural theatre. and Producing Artistic Director of ShPIeL-Performing Identity in Chicago and Artistic Director of Bunbury-ShPIeL Identity Theatre Project in Louisville, KY.

ShPIeL is a performance incubator and producer from a Jewish root for today’s transcultural world.

Arinne Braverman
May 18, 2020

The Tribe: Families Living Jewish Values Through Community

Kenissa Arinne Braverman

This week’s post is by Arinne Braverman, the Founding Director of The Tribe and the President of From Strength to Strength and Executive Director of Returning the Sparks.

The Tribe: a Jewish values-based, experiential education program for families with Jewish children in kindergarten through second grade…

Arielle Aronoff
May 11, 2020

Becoming Shomrei Adamah: Guardians of the Earth

Kenissa Arielle Aronoff

This week’s post is by Arielle Aronoff of Teva Learning Center in Falls Village, CT.

The Teva Learning Center fundamentally transforms Jewish education through experiential learning that fosters Jewish and ecological sustainability…

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May 4, 2020

Creating Community Through Jewish Cohousing

Kenissa Roger Studley

This week’s post is by Roger Studley, founder of Urban Moshav in Berkeley, CA.

Urban Moshav is an ambitious project: we aim to create “Jewish cohousing” communities around the United States. These communities will function like archetypal villages,…

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April 27, 2020

Lifting Up the Voices of Women

Kenissa Talia Liben Yarmush

This week’s post is by Talia Liben Yarmush, co-founder of Achayot: Sisterhood of Jewish Women Writers.

At its foundation, Achayot is built on the principles of wisdom/chochma and community/kehilla. Recognizing the rich legacy of Jewish text and tradition, with a desire to incorporate this legacy into our own writing …

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April 20, 2020

The Emerging Jewish Community: A Riotous Forest of Life

Kenissa Rabbi Ariel Stone

This week’s post is by Rabbi Ariel Stone, Rabbi of independent Congregation Shir Tikvah of Portland Oregon and the convener of Portland Interfaith Clergy Resistance.

The first word that caught my eye in Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Futurewas on the first page: rethinking. My congregational work has focused upon the need…

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April 13, 2020

Weaving Community in Philadelphia

Kenissa Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

This week’s post is by Miriam Steinberg-Egeth, managers of manages two community networks, the Center City Kehillah and the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia. A community is like a puzzle. Each piece has to have its place among all the others for the project to work. An individual piece on its own is not […]

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April 6, 2020

A Judaism for Flourishing

Kenissa Rabbi Ben Spratt

This week’s post is by Rabbi Ben Spratt, the Senior Associate Rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in Manhattan. I begin with a belief that is neither new nor radical: the purpose of Judaism is fulfillment and flourishing, personally and globally.  Maimonides made this claim in his Guide for the Perplexed, saying that the whole of […]

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