Many Paths, Shared Purpose: Crafting Sacred Communities Together.
On Tuesday, May 6, we will offer 18 concurrent 90-minute Jewish learning sessions. These sessions will be centered around the theme “Many Paths, Shared Purpose: Crafting Sacred Communities Together.” This theme is based on the paradigm of the Mishkan (Tabernacle), history’s first Jewish communal project. Through this theme we’ll explore three concentric circles of Jewish life: the individual, the communal, and the national. We can achieve more than anything we could accomplish alone when we bring different paths together into sacred community.
The Jewish Learning sessions have been developed in partnership with JPro25 Scholar in Residence Rabba Yaffa Epstein, Senior Scholar & Educator in Residence at The Jewish Education Project.
Modalities are listed for all sessions, with clarification about whether or not any form of instrumental music is used, to accommodate practices related to the Omer.
See below for a list of our Jewish Learning Sessions and leaders.
Presenters at JPro25 represent a rich array of organizations, experiences, and viewpoints. The materials they present reflect their own perspectives and do not necessarily represent the positions of this conference or its sponsoring organizations.
A Calling for Authentic Self-Expression
Rabbi Adam Gindea
Text-based learning and meditative singing (voice only)
A Mishkan-Inspired Zentangle Session
Lisa Carswell
Meditative art
A Mosaic Peoplehood Approach to Jewish Pedagogy and Belonging
Ruben Shimonov
Artifact exploration and discussion (will include recorded music)
Applying Jewish Spiritual Practice to Daily Life
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman
Text-based learning, individual spiritual practice, and journaling
Connecting an Iraqi Piyyut with Ammud’s Culturally Sustaining Torah Methodology
Sass Brown
Text-based learning (will include recorded music)
Embodying the Mishkan
Yoshi Silverstein
Embodied learning (will include recorded music)
Finding Contemporary Meaning in Ancient Prayers
Rabbi Mike Uram
Text-based learning
Jewish Models of Resilience
Rabba Yaffa Epstein
Text-based learning with Havrutah
Models of Communal Construction: How Communities Are Built
Ethan Linden
Text-based learning
Singularity: Embracing the Uniqueness of Each Communal Strand
Rabbi Marc Margolius
Meditation and text-based learning
The Heavenly Act of Human Production
Laynie Soloman
Text-based learning
The Mishkan and a Mystical Unified Field Theory
Larry Ziffer
Text-based learning
The Torah of Empathy, Belonging, and Mattering
Kohenet Dr. Harriette E. Wimms
Text-based learning and art
Uncovering the Nigun’s Secrets
Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz
Communal singing (voices only)