The Sweetness of Elul: Rosh Hashanah Nail Art
By Anna Coufal The High Holidays can be daunting. Not only are they a busy time of year, but the season also calls upon us to reflect deeply and […]
Yom Kippur Cemetery/Grave Measuring and Soul Candle Making: A Ritual Guide
In many Eastern European Jewish communities in the week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom KippurThe holiest day of the Jewish year and the culmination of a season of […]
A Spiritual Journey – 5785 (2024)
Elul – A time to complete unfinished business September 4 – October 2 Our journey begins a month before Rosh Hashanah. We are about to close the […]
Reading and Writing Mi Shebeirach Le’Holim, the Jewish Prayer for Healing
Join us to study the origins of Judaism’s central healing prayer and craft an original healing prayer.
Reading and Writing the Mourner’s Kaddish
Join us for a special Elul program where we getA writ of divorce. Traditionally, only a man can grant his wife a get. Liberal Jews have amended this tradition, making divorce more egalitarian. inside the structure of one of Judaism’s most powerful and enigmatic prayers, examining some of the context and history of this liturgy and then mapping and writing our own versions.
Writing Letters: Dispatches to the Divine
Join memoirist Ellen Blum Barish to prepare for a meaningful transition into the High Holy Days through the practice of letter writing.
Threading Stones: An Elul Tradition
For centuries, Jewish women in Eastern Europe measured cemeteries and graves with thread. Join us to learn how to perform these rituals using translated Yiddish ethnographic studies and memoirs. Participants will receive training and resources to host a grave measuring event in Elul or another time during the year.
Threading Stones: An Elul Tradition
For centuries, Jewish women in Eastern Europe measured cemeteries and graves with thread. Join us to learn how to perform these rituals using translated Yiddish ethnographic studies and memoirs. Participants will receive training and resources to host a grave measuring event in Elul or another time during the year.
Threading Stones: An Elul Tradition
For centuries, Jewish women in Eastern Europe measured cemeteries and graves with thread. Join us to learn how to perform these rituals using translated Yiddish ethnographic studies and memoirs. Participants will receive training and resources to host a grave measuring event in Elul or another time during the year.
Threading Stones: An Elul Tradition
For centuries, Jewish women in Eastern Europe measured cemeteries and graves with thread. Join us to learn how to perform these rituals using translated Yiddish ethnographic studies and memoirs. Participants will receive training and resources to host a grave measuring event in Elul or another time during the year.
