2013 JICC program book

JEWISH INSPIRATION. SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES.

Jewishconference

2013

intentional Communities

November 14-17participate in the movement

inspiring new dynamics invibrant Jewish living

-Board President

Table of Contents

- Welcome Letter -2

- Children’s Schedule - 3

- Session Descriptions -4

- Presenter Bios -8

- Community Gallery -14

- Second Floor Spaces -15

- Shabbat at JICC -16

- Glossary of Terms -18

- Participant List -21

Dear Friends, Welcome to this momentous occasion—our frst ever Jewish Intentional Communities Conference! We are so glad you can join us for this exciting event. For the past several years, our organizations have been thinking together about what it means to live in and create Jewish intentional communities. As we have grown more deeply committed to this idea, we have come together to found the Jewish Intentional Communities Initiative, with this frst conference as the launching point. We are thrilled to see this vision coming to fruition here at Pearlstone, and are looking forward to next year’s conference at Isabella Freedman as well. Together our participant group represents a wonderful and diverse spectrum of people interested in this topic. For some, this is your frst foray into the idea of intentional communities, while for others this is another step deeper into a commitment spanning many years. We are especially grateful to the Jewish Agency for Israel and to Josh E. and Genine Macks Fidler, for their generous support of this event, enabling both Israeli and North American leaders of intentional communities to join us throughout the weekend, share their wisdom, and help this nascent movement grow into its own. As Jews, we are rediscovering our roots in intentional community. From our ancient nomadic wandering through the desert, to the shtetls of eastern Europe, to today’s plethora of short term young adult communal programs, intentional community is a core part of the Jewish experience. Pearlstone, Hazon, and the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center now join together to help spark the next stage of our communal journey, as we imagine a variety of Jewish intentional communities growing out of this conference and this initiative for years to come.

While we certainly hope that each of you has a great time over these next few days, that is, in one sense, the least of it. Our intention is to take what is already happening - ideas, programs, visions, conversations - and help take them to the next level. There is a good chance that over this weekend, we may be challenged to broaden our horizons, re-examine what we know about ourselves and our communities, and dare to dream bigger about what is possible and what we can create together. It may take fve or ten years to really be able to assess the impact of this frst Conference, but if we're successful, we hope that, in due course, there will be a whole series of new Jewish intentional communities developed in the United States, in Israel, and all over the world.

Im tirtzu, ein zo aggadah. If you will it, it is no dream. L’chayim! Jakir Manela Nigel Savage Executive Director, Pearlstone Center Executive Director, Hazon

David WeisbergExecutive Director, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center

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Babysitting and Children’s Programming Schedule

Nov 14-17, 2013

Babysitting 3-4 year olds 5-6 year olds 7-9 year olds

Thursday 7:15pm-10:45pm

Available for any children

Friday 9:45am-11am

Available for 0-3 years old

Shabbat Arts and Crafts

Cooking/Food Fun

Group Building Games

Friday 11:15am-12:30pm


Group Games Shabbat Arts and Crafts

Farm Activity

Friday 1:45pm-3:00pm


Cooking/Food Fun

Group Games Shabbat Arts and Crafts

Friday8:30pm-9:45pm


Saturday 8:45am-11am


Children’s Tefillah Service (New Dining Room)

Saturday 11:30am-12:45pm


Trails and Games

Meet the Animals

Saturday 4:00pm-5:15pm


Meet the Animals

Trails and Games

Saturday 8:00pm-9:15pm


Sunday 9:00am-10:30am


Farm Activity Art project to take home

Cooking/Food Fun

Sunday 10:30am-12:00pm


Art project to take home

Farm activity Art project to take home

● Children’s programming is available for all potty-trained children.

● All children’s programming will meet and conclude in the Activity Center

on our lower level.

● All daytime babysitting will be held in the Playroom on the lower level.

● Evening babysitting will be held in both the Playroom and Activity Center.

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Session Descriptions

Thursday, 7:15-8:15pm

● Jewish Intentional Communities:

Defining the Moment

Rabbi Sid Schwarz has been a leading voice in

re-thinking the shape of American Jewish life. In

this talk he will place the inaugural gathering of

Jewish Intentional Communities in the context of

American cultural life, the American Jewish

community and Judaic teachings.

Thursday, 8:30-9:45pm

● Plenary #1: Communal Intentions

How are you personally involved in intentional

community? What are your interests and

passions, and where do they intersect with those

of others at this Conference? Through a

participatory and creative process, we will get to

know each other and gain a sense of our

intentions as a community.

Friday, 9:45-11:00am

● Identifying your Community Mission:

Creating Shared Language & Purpose

You have the group together. Now what will hold

you together? What is the mission and vision of

your community that will serve as its foundation?

Brainstorm ways to plan the highest goals in

coming together and how to get clear about the

details and create the shared language that will

be your community's platform. Learn how even

the practicalist and the idealist in your group can

come together on common ground.

● Immersive Programs in Jewish

Intentional Community

Maybe you've already heard about Moishe

House, Adamah or the Pearlstone

Apprenticeshipthree different, immersive

community programs geared at 20's/30's Jewish

young adults. Come hear more from the people

who are helping to reshape Jewish identity in new

and meaningful ways.

● Collective Living in the Urban Landscape

How can neighbors come together in an urban

setting to create strong community? What are

some shared living models for the urban grid?

How can we do this on a neighborhood level, on

a block level, and on a single-home level, and

support collective sustainability in the process?

Join this panel discussion to learn about 3

different models of urban intentional communities

and gain resources that can be used in your own

community.

● Co-Housing in a Jewish Context

We'll explore cohousing as a modern shtetl,

where neighbors diverse in age, income, family

composition, and Jewish observance - and know

one another well - participate actively in each

other's lives, and share a commitment to Jewish

life. The questions addressed by this session

include: What is the cohousing model of

intentional neighborhood? How/why can we adapt

and build upon it in a Jewish context? How is

cohousing distinct from other forms of intentional

community? How are cohousing communities

created, and how specifically is Urban Moshav

working to create Jewish cohousing?

Friday, 11:15am- 12:30pm

● Introduction to School of Living's

Community Land Trust Model

The purpose of the Community Land Trust is to

provide secure access to land for current

generations and protect the land for future

generations, while representing the interests of

the larger community. SOL’s CLT model

integrates Georgist economic principles,

intentional community, ecological stewardship

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and education. This presentation will provide an

overview of the history of the SOL CLT model, the

Georgist principles behind collecting land rent,

why CLT may be the best land-holding option for

intentional communities, and how the CLT model

promotes sustainability and social justice.

● Community Leadership & Shared

Responsibility

With great power comes great responsibility. We

know that our communities can have an

incredible impact, but how can we best share

responsibility within a community? What are

governance and leadership systems we should

consider within intentional community? Join this

session to discuss ways to get members

empowered to take on self-organizing and self-

governing systems, and strategize ways to make

them accountable for their participation.

● Creating Youth Based Intentional

Community

Join Kali, Yoni, and Ira to for an experiential

session about creating intentional community

context for younger children and teens. Learning

from intentional community models and best-

practices to empower children to take ownership,

share responsibility, communicate effectively, and

form healthy, supportive relationships...while still

having fun & being kids!

● Community-Scale Permaculture

Permaculture is an ecological, social, and

economic design system based upon patterns

and relationships found in natural ecosystems.

How can we use this design system to guide our

communities to move beyond being dependent

consumers and grow into being responsible and

productive earth citizens? How can we co-create

a sustainable culture whose relationship with

land, food, housing, and energy are harmonious

with the earth system networks currently

sustaining us? Take a journey on the established

trails of this laid out for us in our Jewish heritage.

Friday, 1:45 -3:00pm

● Manifesting The Vision: Community

Structures, Finding Land & Securing Finances

Now that you have your mission and vision, how

is our community structured and what affect does

that have on acquiring land? With so many

choices, how do we choose from available

properties? How do we navigate acceptance of

our choice within our group, within the

neighborhood and within the purview of local and

state regulations? Learn more about choosing the

right land for your community.

● Establishing Long Term Community at

Pearlstone: Sharing Our Vision & Process

Exploring the case-study of the Pearlstone

Center's communal vision, learn about a unique

approach to developing Jewish intentional

community for the sake of education and

outreach, in service of the wider regional Jewish

community. How can we create Jewish

community models on land owned by the regional

Jewish community? How can this community take

full advantage of regional Jewish resources, both

organizational and philanthropic? How can this

community be created with both local institutional

and individuals' needs and motivations in mind,

and be designed and built with the best chances

for long-term sustainability and success?

● Community Business Models & Social

Entrepreneurship

In some communities, having a shared business

helps keep everyone together and gives

everyone a place. How do we develop

businesses together as a community? How do we

do this while keeping true to our values, and also

supporting the community mission? Explore how

community-based business might look different

and be managed differently than a market-based

business, and what challenges and opportunities

to keep in mind with starting a business in a

community context.

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● Creativity & Artistic Expression in

Community Building

Art is a medium which helps us to express

emotions, creativity, dreams, fears, etc. It can be

used for simple playful entertainment, or it can be

used as a therapeutic practice. How can we use

art in our community context to empower

individual expression, as well as collective

expression? This session will incorporate drama

and clay to explore this theme.

Friday, 8:30 - 9:45pm

● Plenary #2: Journeys in Jewish Intentional

Community Building

Introducing a diverse spectrum of conference

participants who can articulate their motivations,

values, challenges, and lessons learned from a

personal journey through intentional community.

Panelists will share their personal stories as Jews

exploring intentional communities and offer

advice to individuals or families who are

considering joining or starting their own

community.

Saturday,11:30am - 12:45pm

● Interpersonal Relationships & Conflict

Resolution

Part of community is dealing with the complexity

of interpersonal relationships. Especially since we

are all connected, each relationship affects the

other. What happens when conflict arises

between community members? How is this

managed in a healthy, supportive way by the

community? How are relationships developed so

tensions do not escalate into full conflicts?

● Intentional Community as a Platform for

Social Advocacy & Justice

Building a community where we live out our

values together makes a strong statement about

our politics and our vision for the world. What

does it mean to use an intentional community

model to engage outer pockets of community in

social justice work? What tools, tactics, and

systems can we use from intentional community

space to make a more just world for all?

● Celebrating Jewish Diversity: Challenges

and Opportunities

If we are to build strong Jewish community, how

do we come together with shared agreements

around our own religious practices and identities?

Is pluralistic Jewish community possible? Join us

for a conversation around the challenges and

opportunities for living in diverse, multi-

denominational Jewish community.

● Communal Decision Making: Building

Consensus

A community is a collective of many diverse

opinions and voices. How do communities come

together and make collaborative decisions? How

do we do this while respecting everyone's needs

and respecting our time? How is this process

managed? Explore how we can effectively

employ a consensus-based approach to decision

making in building an intentional community,

tapping the wisdom of the entire group and

ensuring greater buy-in from all.

Saturday, 4:00-5:15pm

● Compassionate Communication

How to deal when you hear yourself saying:

"THEY'RE CRAZY and I'M RIGHT!" This session

is for anyone who is looking to strengthen your

practice of patience and empathy among

individuals and communities to transform conflict

and strengthen cultures of peace. We will also

share experiences and tools among participants

for those looking to train members of their

communities in these practices.

● Gender, Elders and Spirit: Celebrating the

Edges Within Community

A community is a mosaic of deep and diverse

relationships. Many of these relationships border

on a sensitive, vulnerable edge; especially the

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connections between the masculine and

feminine, between elders and youngsters, and

between human and spirit. This session will focus

on the practices of honoring and respecting these

edges, as a way to develop mature and holistic

relationships within the community.

● Cultural Pluralism: Celebrating Judaism in

Mixed Faith Communities

To varying degrees we have all experienced living

as Jews in a predominantly non-Jewish world.

How do we keep our Jewish identity strong when

we live in communities that are not Jewish? How

can this cultural diversity empower our own

Jewish commitment and curiosity? How can we

coexist through multiple paths of faith within one

community? In this session, explore this sensitive

and meaningful question in safe space.

● Sharing in Mind: The Communal Model

When we are little, we are taught to share our

toys. As adults living in community, sharing can

go far beyond sharing toys. In this model of

intentional community, everything is shared: work,

income, even cars. How are such systems

designed? How does this meet everyone's

individual needs at the same time? Explore the

possibilities in this session.

Saturday, 8:00-9:15pm

● Keynote #3: Whose Community is it

Anyway?

Join us for a FUN evening game show! Let your

hair down, prepare to laugh and celebrate the

silly situations we often experience in intentional

community building and living. Ridiculous prizes

will be given to creative teams and daring improv

actors! Adults only, please!

Sunday, 9:00 - 10:30am

● Open Space Conversations: Facilitated Chaos

Open Space is a unique format to allow untapped

topics or conversations which have only begun to

be explored. We will gather topics suggestions

from the community and post session topics

around the room, creating space for discussion,

while allowing everyone the flexibility to move

around, learn adn contribute as they see fit.

Sunday, 10:30am - 12:00pm

● Keynote #4: Building Community Together:

Next Steps, Moving Forward & Community

Networking

We've had a great weekend together, but how do

we keep the momentum going? Executive

Directors, Jakir and Nigel, will discuss the next

steps for the Jewish Intentional Communities

Initiative. Join us for this final session where we

dare to dream bigger about what's possible and

what we can create together.

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Conference Presenters

Elik Almog (Kehilat Kama)

Elik is one of the members and founders of 'Kama',

an urban community in Beer Sheva. In the past 5

years he was the CEO of 'Tor Hamidbar' an NGO

established by the Kama community in order to

promote social change in the Negev district. After

being the CEO of the "Tor Hamidbar" for 5 years

Elik left the position (but remains a part of the

board) and become the manager of

"HaYerushalmit" – a gap year service program also

established by intentional communities. Prior to his

work at "Tor HaMidbar" Elik used to work as a

group moderator in Beit Morasha and Gvanim

(NGO). Elik Almog is 33 years old, married to Noam

and father to Rona.

Aharon Ariel-Lavi (Garin Shuva)

Aharon Ariel Lavi is the founder and director of the

Nettiot Mission-Driven Communities Network,

reengaging Haredi Ba'aley Teshuva (Returnees)

into Israeli society. He is also founder of Garin

Shuva in the North-Western Negev and co-founder

of the National Council of Mission-Driven

Communities. Aharon runs the Hitzim social

business in the Negev, and is writing a PhD on

Jewish Economic Thought and published a book on

this issue. In 2013-14 Aharon lives with his wife and

three children in NYC as a Tikvah Fund fellow.

Helen Bennett (Moishe Kavod House)

Helen Bennett is passionate about what brings

people together. She works for JOIN for Justice and

is an organizer at the Moishe Kavod Jewish Social

Justice House in Boston where she organizes

Jewish young adults towards building spiritual

community and working for social justice. An

alumna of Adamah, The Jewish Farm School, and

Yeshivat Hadar, Helen also has experience with

community planning, cooperative living, and

facilitation.

Sarah Chandler (Isabella Freedman)

Sarah Chandler serves as the Director of Earth

Based Spiritual Practice for Hazon’s Adamah Farm

at Isabella Freedman. She is a Jewish experiential

educator, community activist, and spiritual leader.

She has her M.A. in Jewish Communal and

Experiential Education and Hebrew Bible from the

Jewish Theological Seminary. Sarah is a student of

Kohenet: The Hebrew Priestess Institute, a recent

graduate of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s

Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training, and is

studying waking dreams for creative transformation

in the School of Images with Dr. Catherine

Shainberg.

Rachael Cohen

Rachael Cohen is a big-picture thinker, captivated

by social systems and social change. She believes

in the process of community building as a means to

remedy social disintegration and repair individual

well-being. Rachael has a master’s degree in

macro social work and community practice, as well

as a certificate in nonprofit management. She is

currently working on relationship-based social

change through the internet forum New Jewish

Communities, and in Falls Village, CT, both at the

Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center and

within the local community.

Raines Cohen

Raines Cohen is a Cohousing Coach, a community

organizer and connector, who has visited over 100

cohousing neighborhoods and advised many

forming and established groups and community

seekers and founders. Growing up near Boston, he

discovered the power of people helping each other

in the technology world, forming computer user

groups. After co-founding the Berkeley Mac Users

Group (BMUG) and working in technology

journalism and computer consulting, he found the

same communication and compassion skills and

models helped places for living that blend privacy

and community. He has served on the Cohousing

Association of the US (Coho/US) and Fellowship for

Intentional Community (FIC) boards. He wrote the

"Aging in Community" chapter in the book

Audacious Aging (Elite, 2008). He lives in Berkeley

Cohousing with his wife Betsy Morris, where

together they lead the world's largest Intentional

Communities MeetUp group, East Bay Cohousing

and its statewide umbrella, Cohousing California.

Arjuna Da Silva (Earthaven Ecovillage)

From a kosher home in Brooklyn, Arjuna emerged

to explore the worlds of psychology, creative

writing, theater, metaphysics and political

philosophy, studying at Brooklyn College (1963-

66), The New School (NYC, 1970-71) and the

California Institute of Integral Studies (San

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Francisco, 1975-76). Professional

counselor/hypnotherapist. Contributing writer for

Communities magazine. Co-founder of Earthaven

Ecovillage. Board member of Earthaven

Association, Culture’s Edge (non-profit education),

and Celo Community.

Ira Dounn (BBYO)

Ira J. Dounn is the Director of Jewish Enrichment

for BBYO’s Northeast Hub. He has previously

served as Program Director of South Jersey Region

BBYO, Associate Coordinator of Jewish Child Care

Association’s Bukharian Teen Lounge in Queens,

NY, and Teen Educator at Congregation B’nai

Jeshurun in Manhattan. Ira has a Bachelor’s

degree from the University of Chicago, a Masters in

Jewish Education from Hebrew College, is pursuing

an MBA at Indiana University’s Kelley School of

Business, and has studied at Yeshivat Hamivtar and

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. He currently lives in

Manhattan.

Josh Fidler

Josh E. Fidler enjoys a diverse and successful

business career. He is actively involved in three

distinct endeavors – real estate, venture capital and

investment management. Mr. Fidler serves the

community as a member of the Board of Johns

Hopkins Medicine and the Baltimore Community

Foundation. He was the Founding Chair of

Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center and

Chair of Capital Camps and Retreat Center.

Together with his wife, Genine, Mr. Fidler was a Co-

Chair of the 2012 General Assembly of Jewish

Federations of North America. Mr. Fidler received

his law degree from New York University School of

Law and his BA from Brown University. Mr. Fidler

lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife, Genine Macks

Fidler.

James Grant-Rosenhead (Kibbutz Mishol)

James Grant-Rosenhead was born in Leeds,

England. He got interested in Jewish leadership

and intentional communities at 16 years old by

going to the Habonim Dror youth movement. Since

1999 he has been building fully cooperative, activist

intentional communities, intentional community

networks and activist projects all over Israel,

including as a founder member of his home -

Kibbutz Mishol, the biggest activist urban kibbutz in

Israel. He is also on the board of the National

Council of Activist Communities in Israel.

Reuven Greenvald (Jewish Agency for Israel)

Reuven Greenvald was a day school educator for

over twenty years, serving in teaching and

administrative capacities. At the Charles E. Smith

Jewish Day School (Rockville, MD), he was the

Upper School Principal and at the Kehillah Jewish

High School (Palo Alto, CA) he was Head of

School. A graduate of the JTS rabbinical school and

the University of Pennsylvania, he spent two years

(2002-04) in Israel as a Jerusalem Fellow at the

Mandel Leadership Institute. Since June of 2007 he

has been working at Makōm as its Director of

Community Initiatives

Michael Gropper (Moishe House)

Michael is ecstatic to be the Western Regional

Director for Moishe House. Prior to Moishe House

he worked for the Jewish Federation of Greater Los

Angeles as the Program Director for Taglit-Birthright

Israel. He graduated with a Religious Studies

degree from San Diego State University and spent

a year studying abroad in Israel, at Tel Aviv

University. Michael has also worked for the

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

(JDC) as a Jewish Service Corps Fellow in Mumbai,

India. Yes, there are Jews in India – and have been

for over 2000 years!! Michael currently lives in San

Diego, and is happiest when surrounded with

family, friends, music, and food.

Felicity Jeans (Camphill)

Felicity Jeans is the Camphill Village Kimberton

Hills Executive Director and Community

Coordinator. Felicity has been a Camphill resident

volunteer since 1988, first at the Pennine Camphill

community in Yorkshire, then with a pioneering

adult community forming in Co. Monaghan, Ireland.

On completing the Eurythmy training she joined

Kimberton Hills in 2005, became manager of the

weavery and fiber arts workshops, the Craft Shop

and a household leader. She became the ED in

July 2013 and lives in a household with 9 people, 5

who have developmental disabilities.

Joel Kachinsky (The Farm)

Joel Kachinsky is 70, an identical twin, and lived in

the Jewish Dorchester section of Boston. He joined

The Farm, an intentional community in Summerton,

TN, in 1972 and since 1973 has been legal counsel,

and secretary or president of The Foundation- the

nonprofit, religious, membership corporation that

manages The Farm. He has been practicing law in

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Tennessee since 1973 and been a soymilk cooker

since 2005.

Rachel Kriger (Heathcote)

At the Adamah fellowship in Connecticut, Rachel

Kriger learned to fuse her passions for farming,

Jewish ritual, community and personal growth. Now,

as an acupuncturist, she helps others cultivate and

maintain wellness. She lives with her husband and

eighteen other people at Heathcote, an intentional

community 30 miles north of Baltimore.

Nina Lankin (Twin Oaks)

Nina lives at Twin Oaks Community and is a

vocalist for Vulgar Bulgars, Central Virginia's hottest

Klezmer band. She is very excited to be a part of

the first Jewish Intentional Communities

Conference!

Jess Little (Twin Oaks)

Jess moved to Twin Oaks Community in Central

Virginia at the end of 2005. While living at Twin

Oaks, she's been involved in various aspects of

community life, from economic planning to cooking

to running meetings to fixing cars. She's a strong

believer in the community model of living, and

enjoys talking to other people about starting new

communities.

Tamar Milstein (Kibbutz Kramim)

Tamar Milstein is the visionary, founder and director

of the social business, Community Stage in

Kramim. She has a BA and MA in Philosophy from

Tel Aviv University and is a graduate of the famed

Nissan Nativ Acting Studio in Tel Aviv and the

Mandel School for Educational Leadership in

Jerusalem. Tamar has founded and directed many

social and educational programs that incorporate

the arts. Tamar is married to Amir, they have four

children and they live in Kibbutz Kramim in Israel.

Craig Oshkello (Living Tree Alliance / Cold Pond

Trust)

Craig Oshkello, MLA, has been dedicated to the

design and development of intentional farm based

communities for the past twelve years. In 2000,

Craig started a non-profit organization, Land For

Good , to help keep New England’s working lands

productive. As a professionally trained landscape

architect, Craig delivers farm design, land planning

and green development consulting services to a

broad range of clients. Craig has also been in

private practice designing and building homes for

the past seven years.

Stacey London-Oshkello (Living Tree Alliance /

Cold Pond Trust)

Stacey lives with her husband Craig, and their two

children Ayla and Adyn Shai. They currently live

amongst a farming community land trust in Acworth,

NH; where they have resided for almost 10 years.

Stacey and Craig raise sheep, chickens, and many

different types of vegetables, mostly for their own

consumption but do sell some of their farm

products. Stacey spends her days caring for her

children and animals, making nutritious meals,

enjoying the woods and outdoors, and offering

nutritional counseling. In addition Stacey loves to

read, take hot baths, saunas, and celebrate the

Jewish calendar. Balancing time with my family,

time amongst community, and time alone outdoors

is of primary importance to Stacey.

Tzur Oren (Ketzev)

Tzur Oren is the Program Coordinator of “Ketzev,” a

Jewish Agency program that helps groups of

idealistic young Israelis to create social activism

businesses that raise the quality of life in Israel’s

geographic and cultural peripheries. As Program

Coordinator, Mr. Oren is responsible for developing

the marketing strategy for the program, providing

executive and strategic support to the beneficiaries,

and monitoring their progress. Mr. Oren holds a

bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, with honors,

from The Open University of Jerusalem, with a

concentration in Political Science and

Communications. He is currently working toward an

MBA at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. Previous to

his work at The Jewish Agency, Mr. Oren was

Director of Marketing for the Reut Community

Mental Health Organization in Jerusalem. He also

previously spent three years living in Houston,

Texas, at Optimum Real Estate Investments. During

his 3-year service for the IDF, he was a commander

in the Paratroopers’ division.

Nati Passow (5000 Cedars/ Jewish Farm School)

Nati Passow loves the pre-Thanksgiving farmers

markets in Philadelphia more than life itself. He is

the Founding Director of the Jewish Farm School

and the Program Manager for Hazon Philadelphia.

Nati recently formed 5000 Cedars, a group of

neighbors that is working to convert a vacant lot into

a thriving green community space.

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Julie Rezmovic-Tonti

Julie Rezmovic-Tonti teaches Jewish History and

Mishnah at Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax,

VA. Julie and her husband Mat started an

intentional nuclear family in 2007 with the birth of

their daughter, Mayira Tonti and subsequently in

2009 Hami Tonti, and again in 2012 with the birth of

Uri Tonti. They are excited to one day dwell

amongst a land-based, Jewish community. They

love celebrating Shabbat, going on bike rides, and

having musical jams.

Josh Rosenstein (Pearlstone Center)

Joshua Rosenstein spent the past eight years

studying and teaching permaculture, sustainability

and how to grow and preserve food. He developed

the Adamah Dills value added product business in

Connecticut, taught permaculture design courses in

South Africa and developed community gardening

projects in Jerusalem. He spent his first year at

Pearlstone developing the animal program, his

second year as Farm Manager and is currently

serving as Farm Director at the Pearlstone Center.

Yaffa Rubin (Living Tree Alliance)

Yaffa serves as a steward, mentor, outdoor

educator, middle school math and science teacher,

and Hebrew school teacher while running a LC3

called Roots and Trails; dedicated to ethically re-

wilding the earth and guiding Jewish youth and

families through programs which cultivate

ecological awareness grounded in tradition. Yaffa is

grateful to help grow the Living Tree Alliance in

Central Vermont.

Rabbi Sid Schwarz (Clal)

Rabbi Sid Schwarz is the director of Clal’s Clergy

Leadership Incubator (CLI) a new, two-year

program for early career rabbis designed to create

visionary spiritual leaders with the skills to transform

American synagogues. CLI is part of the Rabbis

Without Borders portfolio of programs. Schwarz is

the author of Jewish Megatrends: Charting the

Course of the American Jewish Community (Jewish

Lights) and Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New

Generation of Jews can Transform the American

Synagogue (Jewish Lights).

Rabbi David Seidenberg

Rabbi David Seidenberg, founder of NeoHasid.org,

teaches text and music, Jewish thought and

spirituality, in their own right and in relation to

ecology and the environment. David's book on

ecology and Kabbalah will be published by

Cambridge University next year. He has smikhah

from JTS and from Reb Zalman. David ran the

Vermont Moshav Network in the 80’s before

attending rabbinical school.

Benzion Shamberg (Call of the Shofar)

Benzion Shamberg is enthusiastic about inner

wellbeing that promotes healthy relationships. As

senior facilitator for Call of the Shofar, he teaches

Jewish principles and tools for personal

development, relational health and spiritual growth

through experiential programs. He is also an

acupuncturist and breathwork therapist. Benzion

currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife,

Erin, and 2 boys, Shaanan and Yedidya.

Shoshana Shamberg

Shoshana Shamberg, an occupational therapist,

special educator, potter, and owner of Abilities OT

Services & Irlen Visual Learning Center, has been

involved in secular spiritual and Jewish intentional

community building since she was 14 years old

(now an elder 60 years young). As a world traveler

since 1971, she visited many communities to learn

about sustainability, natural birthing, crafts, raising a

family in a village, and cultural/spiritual practices to

guide living on the planet. A wife of 32 years,

mother of 6, including mother of a 35 year old

daughter born on The Farm in Summertown, TN,

and grandmother of 5,Shoshana and her husband,

Aaron, an urban farmer and landscape architect,

have been involved with Pearlstone Farm since its

inception. Both live in Baltimore, MD, observe Torah

Judaism as adults, and grew up in secular homes

and communities.

Kali Silverman (Habonim Dror)

Kali Silverman is the Mazkira Klalit, National

Director, of Habonim Dror North America. She grew

up in Elkins Park, PA and currently lives in

Brooklyn, NY. She was Rosh (Director) of Camp

Galil (Ottsville, PA) in 2011 and 2012. Kali

graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in

Geography and Urban Studies.

Yoni Stadlin (Eden Village Camp)

Yoni Stadlin founded and directs Eden Village

Camp, the pluralistic Jewish organic farm-to-table

sleepaway camp an hour north of NYC. In addition

to Eden Village, he has experienced a wide variety

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of communal settings, from leading service-learning

trips in Israel, Mexico and Turkey; to living aloft in

endangered redwood trees with other activists; to

currently being "intentional neighbors" in Beacon,

NY, with friends with whom he and his wife share

meals, childcare and taking care of chickens and

compost.

Roger Studley (Urban Moshav)

Roger Studley is the founder of Urban Moshav, a

non-profit established to develop Jewish cohousing.

An active Jewish leader, Roger has co-chaired a

Hazon Food Conference, organized shechitot for

two others, been an organizer of San Francisco's

Mission Minyan, and co-founded Berkeley's East

Bay Minyan. He is married to Chai Levy, Rabbi of

Congregation Kol Shofar in Tiburon, CA, and can't

wait to see their son Ezra frolicking in the play room

and open space of Berkeley Moshav, one of the

first-ever Jewish cohousing communities.

Karen Stupski (Heathcote)

Karen Stupski is a sustainability educator, grant

writer, and communitarian. She currently serves as

a faculty member at Goddard College,

Development Director for the Gunpowder Valley

Conservancy (a watershed organization and land

trust) and Executive Director of School of Living (a

community land trust). Karen lives at Heathcote

Community, an intentional community dedicated to

sustainable living, where she coordinates the

permaculture education program.

Stephan Sylva (Eastern Village Cohousing)

Stephan D. Sylvan co-founded the Eastern Village

Cohousing Community, one of the most

environmentally advanced residential buildings in

the United States. Stephan is also Partnership

Programs Coordinator for U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, responsible for coordinating and

advising EPA's 90 Voluntary Partnership Programs

as part of EPA's National Center for Environmental

Innovation. In a previous role, Stephan led the team

that developed and launched the Energy Star Home

Electronics family of programs. He also has

contributed to several interfaith environmental

projects.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow (Shalom Center)

Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph. D., founded (in 1983)

and directs The Shalom Center, a prophetic voice in

Jewish, multireligious, and American life that brings

Jewish and other spiritual thought and practice to

bear on seeking peace, pursuing justice, healing

the earth, and celebrating community. He edits and

writes for its weekly on-line Shalom Report. In

1996, Waskow was named by the United Nations a

“Wisdom Keeper” among forty religious and

intellectual leaders who met in connection with the

Habitat II conference in Istanbul. In 2001, he was

presented with the Abraham Joshua Heschel Award

by the Jewish Peace Fellowship. In 2005, he was

named by the Forward, the leading Jewish weekly

in America, one of the "Forward Fifty" as a leader of

the Jewish community. In 2007, he was named by

Newsweek one of the fifty moist influential American

rabbis, and was presented with awards and honors

by groups as diverse as the Neighborhood Interfaith

Movement of Philadelphia and the Muslim American

Society Freedom Foundation.

Ari Witkin (Pearlstone Center)

Ari Witkin is a native of Minneapolis and graduate of

Goucher College, and the outgoing Apprenticeship

and Multicultural Coordinator at the Pearlstone

Center. For the last two years Ari has had the

incredible opportunity to make Pearlstone his home:

farming, teaching, and building community with and

within Pearlstone’s unique organization. He

coordinates Kulanu Inc.’s Jewish community

programs in Kenya, is a member of the Jonah

House nonviolence and resistance community, and

an organizer and community builder.

Conference Staff

Yigal Deutscher (Hazon, Shmita Project

Manager; 7Seeds)

Yigal Deutscher, manager of the Shmita Project, is

an educator, farmer, and permaculture designer.

After participating in the Adamah fellowship, he

continued his training with the University of

California, Santa Cruz (Center for Agroecology &

Sustainable Food Systems), as well as with the

Permaculture Research Institute in Australia. Until

2010, he was the farm manager and permaculture

educator at the Chava v’Adam farm in Israel. He is

the founder of 7Seeds, an educational platform

combining Jewish teachings & Permaculture Design

strategies, as well as the author of 'Envisioning

Sabbatical Culture: A Shmita Manifesto.'

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Jakir Manela (Pearlstone, Executive Director)

Jakir Manela is the executive director of the

Pearlstone Center. Jakir came to Pearlstone in

2006 by way of the Teva Learning Center, COEJL,

and the University of Wisconsin. Jakir founded and

built the farm and program at Pearlstone, and now

is responsible for the entire organization. Jakir is

married to Netsitsah, and they have two sons Lev

and Shama. The Manela family’s dream is to

establish a land-based pluralistic Jewish community

practicing sustainable agriculture and healthy living

here at Pearlstone.

Morris Panitz (Pearlstone, Director of Programs)

Morris Panitz grew up in Norfolk, VA and attended

the University of MD where he studied Philosophy

and Jewish studies. He participated in the Adamah

Fellowship, and served as an apprentice at Ocean

Air farms before joining the team at Pearlstone

Center in February. He is currently Director of

Programs at the Pearlstone Center.

Nigel Savage (Hazon, Executive Director)

Nigel Savage, originally from Manchester, England,

founded Hazon (Hebrew for "vision") in 2000.

Before founding Hazon Nigel was a professional

fund manager in the Wall Street equivalent in the

UK. He has an MA in History from Georgetown, and

learned at Pardes, Yakar and the Hebrew

University. Hazon was recognized by the Sierra

Club as one of 50 leading faith-based

environmental organizations in the US. In 2008

Nigel was named a member of the Forward 50 - the

annual list of the 50 most influential Jewish people

in the United States. Nigel is thought to be the first

English Jew to have cycled across South Dakota on

a recumbent bike.

Adam 'Segulah' Sher (Isabella Freedman,

Director of Transformative Experiences)

Adam 'Segulah' Sher serves as Hazon's Director of

Transformative Experiences, headquartered at

Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. With a

fantastic team, Segulah produces Elat Chayyim

retreats, Hazon Bike Rides and Food Conferences,

Adamah Farms Vacations, the Teva Seminar on

Environmental Education, Holiday festivals, and

more. Segulah earned his Master's degree in

Transformative Education from Antioch Universit

Seattle, and his Bachelor's degree in Noospheric

Ecology from Evergreen State College in Olympia,

WA. He lives in Falls Village, CT with his wife

Megan, whom he met when she worked for the

Adamah Farm & Fellowship at Isabella Freedman.

Neely Snyder (Pearlstone, Director of Signature

Programs)

Neely Snyder is the Director of Signature Programs

at Pearlstone Center. She has dedicated 15+ years

to the field of informal Jewish education in both lay

and professional roles. Her experience includes

directing the Baltimore chapter of TCI, serving

Jewish teens in local non-Jewish independent

schools, serving as Director of Informal Education

at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in

Philadelphia, various educator roles in Jewish day

and overnight camps, and holding professional and

volunteer positions with United Synagogue Youth.

Neely has a Master's Degree in Jewish Education

from The Jewish Theological Seminary. She is

passionate about providing pluralistic immersive

experiences that support life-long development of

Jewish identity.

Liz Traison (Hazon, Program Associate)

Liz Traison is on her way to becoming a certified

health coach. She is a graduate of The University of

Michigan where she received a BA in History and in

Judaic Studies. She also studied at Midreshet

Lindenbaum and Hebrew University. She is thrilled

to be a Program Associate at Hazon and also to be

doing social justice programming for MASA Alumni.

She likes being outside, particularly on Skeleton

Lake. And also being inside, specifically doing

creative workshops in prison.

David Weisberg (Isabella Freedman, Executive

Director)

David Weisberg has served as the Executive

Director of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat

Center since the spring of 2011 and is set to

become the CEO of Hazon following an

organizational merger. Prior to Freedman, David

spent four years as the Executive Director of

Friends of the Arava Institute. His Jewish

communal service career began in the late 1990’s,

serving for nearly a decade as the CEO of the

Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg and the

Jewish Community Center of Greater Harrisburg.

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Community Gallery Room 103

Throughout the weekend, we encourage you to check out the displays in our Community Gallery. Intentional communities represented at the conference (Jewish and secular, American and Israeli, established and in formation) have brought information about their communities. Please visit, ask, explore, and learn!

Community Representative TeaserThe Farm Joel Kachinsky Intentional community living on three square miles in

southern middle Tennessee; founded in 1971

Heathcote Rachel Kriger Longstanding intentional community 30 miles north of Baltimore, MD

Camphill Village, Kimberton Hills

Felicity Jeans Farming and handcrafting community; includes adults with developmental disabilities; founded 1972, Southeast PA

Twin Oaks Jess Little Intentional community in rural Virginia; founded in 1967

Earthaven Ecovillage Arjuna Da Silva Aspiring ecovillage in mountain forest setting near Asheville, NC founded 1995

Mount Eden Ecovillage Steven Welzer Project in formation in New Jersey

Eastern Village Cohousing Stephan Sylvan Urban garden condo community in Silver Spring, MD

Urban Moshav Roger Studley Jewish cohousing project in Berkeley, CA

Matovu Farms Tovah Kinderlehrer

Holistic and educational farm in NW Pennsylvania; building community on site

Living Tree Alliance Yaffa Rubin Multi-generational, ecologically oriented Jewish community in VT

Yiddish Farm Yisroel Bass Organic Yiddish educational farm in Goshen, NY; building community on site

Moishe Kavod House Helen Bennett Jewish Social Justice House in Boston, MA for young adults

Kibbutz Mishol James Grant-Rosenhead

Biggest activist urban kibbutz in Israel, located in the north

Garin Shuva Aharon Ariel-Lavi Eco-intentional community in North-Western Negev, Israel

Kehilat Kama Elik Almog Urban community in Be’er Sheva, Israel

Kibbutz Kramim Tamar Milstein Religiously diverse, ecologically based kibbutz in Northern Negev, Israel

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SHABBAT AT

JEWISH INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE

Hazon, Isabella Freedman, and Pearlstone strive to create an inclusive community

throughout all of our events. As such, Shabbat can be a complicated time, since our

participants come from all backgrounds and have a variety of personal customs. For

some, this may be their first time experiencing Shabbat; others at the Conference may

follow more traditional Halakha (law) regarding Shabbat. In crafting our Shabbat

schedule, we have tried to create programming that will be of interest to all. Feel free to

participate in the sessions and prayer services which you are accustomed to, or use this

weekend to try something new.

If you have any questions about the customs of Shabbat or are lost during services,

please ask those around you, especially the Hazon, Isabella Freedman, and Pearlstone

staff. If you have never observed Shabbat as we are at the Conference, we hope that

you will appreciate these customs and be respectful of those observing them as we

strive to make our own Intentional Community this weekend.

A Day of Rest -- Shabbat is called a day of rest. The fourth of the Ten Commandments

states, “For six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a

Sabbath…You shall not do any work.” Aside from doing physical work, people

traditionally abstain from many things including using the telephone, turning on and off

lights, cooking, using the computer, listening to or playing music, swimming and writing.

Others may use Shabbat as a time to specifically do these types of activities they don’t

get to do during the rest of the week.

Candle Lighting -- All Jewish holidays begin at sunset, thus Shabbat begins at

sundown on Friday night. We mark the transition from work week to Shabbat with the

lighting of candles. This is a way to welcome in Shabbat, reflect on the past week and

prepare for a day of rest before the week begins. Please join us at 4:30 for candle

lighting, where we can bring Shabbat in as a community.

Friday Night Services -- Friday night services traditionally open with Kabalat Shabbat

(literally, welcoming the Sabbath). This is a collection of Pslams, often recites in song

and joy, especially the culminating poem, Lecha Dodi, which ends with the welcoming of

the Sabbath Bride. We have a few different options for Friday night services, use this

time to try something new or find something meaningful to you.

Friday Night Dinner -- Before we eat dinner on Friday night we will start by singing

Shalom Aleichem, a poem welcoming angels into our midst. Following this song, we will

chant the Kiddush, the blessing over the wine and the sanctification of the Day. We will

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have one representative make Kiddush for the group, and you are welcome to make the

blessing yourself if that is your custom. The next stage is the blessing over bread, but

before that, people are invited to ritually wash their hands. It is customary not to talk

between hand washing and the blessing over the bread. After HaMotzi, the blessing

over the bread, the meal begins. Shabbat meals are often filled with song, and we hope

you will join us in singing or follow along in the songbooks on the tables. We will end

with Birkat HaMazon, grace after meals.

Morning Services -- In traditional Saturday morning services we read a portion from

the Torah, which rotates each week. At this point in the annual cycle we are reading a

series of laws from the end of Deuteronomy. We also read a Haftarah from the Hebrew

prophets, which at this time of year comes from the book of Isaiah in preparation for the

High Holidays. At this Conference we are thrilled to be able to offer a traditional

Mechitza service, an Egalitarian service, and a Renewal service – in addition to a Torah

yoga class!

Shabbat Day -- After Shabbat morning services, we make another blessing over wine

in a special communal Kiddush. At lunch we will bless the bread and conclude with

Grace after Meals. At the large Shabbat lunch, we will then start with the blessing over

bread, done individually or by table. Because cooking is considered work, typical

Shabbat lunch meals include cold food, and cholent (a stew that is left on the stove to

simmer during Shabbat).

Havdalah -- Havdalah, (literally, separation), marks the end of Shabbat and the start of

the new week. Havdalah is done as soon as three stars are visible in the sky. The rituals

of Havdalah include blessings over drinking wine, smelling spices, seeing a flame of a

candle, and a blessing on separation. Havdalah is intended to require a person to use

all five senses: tasting wine, smelling spices, seeing fire and feeling its heat, and

hearing blessings. Make sure to join us for a communal Havdallah filled with song and

dance!

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Glossary of Terms

Intentional Community

An "intentional community" is a group of people who have chosen to live together with a common purpose, working cooperatively to create a lifestyle that reflects their shared core values. The people may live together on a piece of rural land, in a suburban home, or in an urban neighborhood, and they may share a single residence or live in a cluster of dwellings.

Sustainable Community

A sustainable community is one that is economically, environmentally, and socially healthy and resilient. It meets challenges through integrated solutions rather than through fragmented approaches that meet one of those goals at the expense of the others. And it takes a long-term perspective—one that's focused on both the present and future, well beyond the next budget or election cycle. As a result, a sustainable community manages its human, natural, and financial resources to meet current needs while ensuring that adequate resources are equitably available for future generations.

Cohousing While cohousing communities may appear similar to some mainstream housing developments, the people forming cohousing communities organize to practice ideals of participation, cooperation, sharing, and knowing one's neighbors. Cohousing communities, typically, use private, home ownership as part of the community's economic model - making it relatively easy for forming groups to obtain construction and mortgage financing from conventional banks. The vast majority of existing cohousing communities had considerable resident input into thedesign process as it unfolds. For neighborhood-level cohousing, site designs generally cluster housing with enhanced pedestrian and play areas to promote frequent, spontaneous human contact - cars (roads and parking) are usually de-emphasized and set apart from the homes and primary common spaces. Cohousing can also take other forms, including large, shared buildings, and groups of existing dwellings that are retrofitted into Cohousing communities.

Income Sharing Income sharing is a way of breaking down economic inequalities withing a community. In communities where members work outside the community, it balances out the inequalities of different working conditions, income and stress. Often communards have very different jobs; some are self-employed, others are employees. Some are well paid, others less well paid. Some have greater job security, others are in precarious employment. Income sharing creates economic equality and security.In communities where members work in communally owned businesses, it breaks down the inequalities which exist between the more successful enterprises and the ones which either break even or need subsidizing.

Kibbutz The kibbutz is an original and unique Israeli creation – a multi-generation, rural settlement, characterized by its collective and cooperative community lifestyle, democratic management, responsibility for the welfare of each adult member and child, and shared ownership of its means of production and consumption.

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Moshav The moshavim are similar to kibbutzim with an emphasis on community labor. They were designed as part of the Zionist state-building program following the Yishuv ("settlement") in the British Mandate of Palestine during the early 20th century, but contrary to the collective kibbutzim, farms in a moshav tended to be individually owned but of fixed and equal size. Workers produced crops and goods on their properties through individual and/or pooled labour and resources and used profit and foodstuffs to provide for themselves. Moshavim are governed by an elected council. Community projects and facilities were financed by a special tax. This tax was equal for all households of the community, thus creating a system where good farmers were better off than bad ones, unlike in the communal kibbutzim where (at least theoretically) all members enjoyed the same living standard.

Open Source Village Open Source Village is being created to provide blueprints, tools, tutorials, and as many resources as possible to streamline, simplify, and facilitate the launching of additional projects. Additionally, One Community and all its components are being designed to be duplicated either modularly or as a complete self-sufficient and self-replicating teacher/demonstration community, village, or city

Community Land Trust

A Community Land Trust (CLT) is a form of ownership for the common good with a charter based on the principles of sustainable and ecologically-sound stewardship and use. The land in a CLT is held in trust by a democratically-governed non-profit corporation. Through an inheritable and renewable long-term lease, the trust removes land from the speculative market and facilitates multiple uses such as affordable housing, village improvement, commercial space, agriculture, recreation, and open space preservation. Individual leaseholders own the buildings and other improvements on the land created by their labor and investment, but do not own the land itself. Resale agreements on the buildings ensure that the land value of a site is not included in future sales, but rather held in perpetuity on behalf of the regional community.

Cooperatives A cooperative ("coop") or co-operative ("co-op") is an autonomous association of persons who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual, social, economic, and cultural benefit.[1] Cooperatives include non-profit community organizations and businesses that are owned and managed by the people who use its services (a consumer cooperative) or by the people who work there (a worker cooperative) or by the people who live there (a housing cooperative), hybrids such as worker cooperatives that are also consumer cooperatives or credit unions, multi-stakeholder cooperatives such as those that bring together civil society and local actors to deliver community needs, and second and third tier cooperatives whose members are other cooperatives.

Egalitarian Communities

Holds its land, labor, income and other resources in common. Assumes responsibility for the needs of its members, receiving the products of their labor and distributing these and all other goods equally, or according to need. Practices non-violence. Uses a form of decision making in which members have an equal opportunity to participate, either through consensus, direct vote, or right of appeal or overrule. Actively works to establish the equality of all people and does not permit discrimination on the basis of race, class, creed, ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Acts to conserve natural resources for present and future generations while striving to continually improve ecological awareness and practice. Creates processes for group communication and participation and provides an environment which supports people's development.

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Adam Allenberg [email protected]

Lauren Allenberg [email protected]

Elik Almog [email protected]

Moshe Arazi [email protected]

Hana Askren [email protected]

Yisroel Bass [email protected]

Dr. Allison Bell [email protected]

Rachel Bender [email protected]

Helen Bennett [email protected]

Phyllis Berman [email protected]

Ori Bieder [email protected]

David Blank [email protected]

David Bronstein [email protected]

Lizzy Cantor [email protected]

Aaron Catz [email protected]

Sarah Chandler [email protected]

Jacob Chationver [email protected]

Rachael Cohen [email protected]

Raines Cohen [email protected]

Yishai Cohen [email protected]

Nick Corso [email protected]

Arjuna Da Silva [email protected]

Perri DeJarnette [email protected]

Yigal Deutscher [email protected]

Janna Diamond [email protected]

Ira Dounn [email protected]

Leemor Ellman [email protected]

Benji Elson [email protected]

Nora Feldhusen [email protected]

Alana Fichman [email protected]

Josh Fidler [email protected]

Yoshi Fields [email protected]

Stephan Fineberg Sylvan [email protected]

Caitlin Fisch [email protected]

Mark (Moshe) Fisch [email protected]

David Fisher [email protected]

Joel Frankel [email protected]

Ranai Friedman [email protected]

Itai Gal [email protected]

Adam Gillman [email protected]

Levi Gershkowitz [email protected]

Johanna Ginsberg [email protected]

Eliana Golding [email protected]

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Barbara Goodman [email protected]

James Grant-Rosenhead [email protected]

Lauren Greenberg [email protected]

Yadidya Greenberg [email protected]

Sandra (Sandy) Greenspun [email protected]

Reuven Greenvald [email protected]

Michael Gropper [email protected]

Elana Havusha [email protected]

Maxwell Hellmann [email protected]

Alex Holt [email protected]

Jen Holzer [email protected]

R. Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin [email protected]

Shonna Husbands-Hankin [email protected]

Robyn Jacobs [email protected]

Felicity Jeans [email protected]

Teri Jedeikin [email protected]

Angus Johnson [email protected]

Joel Kachinsky [email protected]

Jessie Karsif [email protected]

Rachel Katz [email protected]

Tovah Kinderlehrer [email protected]

Shira Klapper [email protected]

Gary Kornfeld [email protected]

Rachel Kriger [email protected]

Miriam Kudler-Flam [email protected]

Uri Laio [email protected]

Nina Lankin [email protected]

Talia Laster [email protected]

Aharon Ariel Lavi [email protected]

Liat Lavi [email protected]

Gilana Levavi [email protected]

Bernard Levine [email protected]

Shelley Levine [email protected]

Jess Little [email protected]

Neshama Littman [email protected]

Stacey London-Oshkello [email protected]

Jakir Manela [email protected]

Nets Manela [email protected]

Laura Markowitz [email protected]

Aurelien Marti [email protected]

Allyson Mattanah [email protected]

Gavriel Meir-Levi [email protected]

Laura Menyuk [email protected]

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Laura Menyuk [email protected]

Mira Menyuk [email protected]

Art Miller [email protected]

Sherry Miller [email protected]

Tamar Milstein [email protected]

Aitan Mizrahi [email protected]

Lee Moore [email protected]

Danielle Morse [email protected]

Cathy Myrowitz [email protected]

Elliott Myrowitz [email protected]

Rachel Myrowitz [email protected]

Tehilla Newman [email protected]

Blair Nosan [email protected]

Tzur Oren [email protected]

Craig Oshkello [email protected]

Noah Palmer [email protected]

Morris Panitz [email protected]

Nati Passow [email protected]

Aaron Philmus [email protected]

Valerie Philmus [email protected]

Isaac Pinkesz [email protected]

Lilly Platt [email protected]

Mitch Posner [email protected]

Rose Prevezer [email protected]

Mark Pruce [email protected]

Amy Purdy [email protected]

Naomi Raphael [email protected]

Julie Rezmovic-Tonti [email protected]

Josh Rosenstein [email protected]

David Ross [email protected]

Yaffa Rubin [email protected]

Rikki SaNoguiera [email protected]

Liz Savage [email protected]

Nigel Savage [email protected]

David Schwartz [email protected]

Larry Schwartz [email protected]

Sid Schwarz [email protected]

Rivka Schwebel [email protected]

David Seidenberg [email protected]

Benzion Shamberg [email protected]

James (Aaron) Shamberg [email protected]

Shoshana Shamberg [email protected]

Adam Segulah Sher [email protected]

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Sally Shore-Wittenberg [email protected]

Garth Silberstein [email protected]

Kali Silverman [email protected]

Micah Simmons [email protected]

Bethany Slater [email protected]

Stephen Slater [email protected]

Ruth Smith [email protected]

Heather Smokler [email protected]

Jordanna Snyder [email protected]

Josh Snyder [email protected]

Neely Snyder [email protected]

Diane Sobel [email protected]

Yoni Stadlin [email protected]

Elisheva Stark [email protected]

Rachel Steinberg Warschawski [email protected]

Jonathan Strunin [email protected]

Roger Studley [email protected]

Karen Stupski [email protected]

Izabella Tabarovsky [email protected]

Ben Taylor [email protected]

Sara Teitelbaum [email protected]

Mat Tonti [email protected]

Elizabeth Traison [email protected]

Aharon Varady [email protected]

Devorah Vidal [email protected]

Ilene Vogelstein [email protected]

Jane West Walsh [email protected]

David Warschawski [email protected]

Arthur Waskow [email protected]

David Waters [email protected]

David Weisberg [email protected]

Steven Welzer [email protected]

Sonia Wilk [email protected]

Felice Winograd Holt [email protected]

Ari Witkin [email protected]

Bruce Wittenberg [email protected]

Katherine Woods-Morse [email protected]

Hana Zwiebel [email protected]

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WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM

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