Opening Doors

Torah means teaching in Hebrew … but what does Torah mean to you?

In the last months, I've been considering shifts in the contours of antisemitism as well as how antisemitism might be constructively combatted in the classroom and beyond, with particular attention to the USA case.

How can we most effectively build a world characterized by coexistence and respect?
What are fitting roles for education within the current situation?

https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/how-to-teach-about-anti-semitism/ Josh Krug Opening Doors

How to Teach about Antisemitism The five W’s—Who, What, Where, When, and Why—guide this teacher’s thinking about crucial questions to consider when educating about historical and contemporary antisemitism. By Joshua Krug

On Friday at 9:30 AM ET (and 3:30 CET), we will be co-hosting a facilitated (Zoom) lecture and conversation on the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 🌎

In preparation, please read an article, "Who Owns the Land?"
https://jewishcurrents.org/who-owns-the-land
(linked in bio on Instagram) 🌻

For details of this special convening, please REACH OUT directly here!

Please spend three minutes and give yourself the gift of listening to and experiencing a poem:

"Please Call Me By My True Names"

Please Call Me By My True Names - A Poem By Thich Nhat Hanh Please Call Me By My True Names is a poem written by Thich Nhat Hanh back in the 1970s. He wrote it in response to hearing the news about a young refugee gir...

Poetry with the Redwoods! 🍃🍁🌿🍂

@ Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park on 4/1/23

Please plan to offer
a) poetry (your own or someone else's)
b) food to share
c) rides for folks who don't have

10:30 - 11:30 - Breaking Bread
11:30 - 12:30 - Poetry Sharing and Reflections

If you're in the peninsula on Thursday evening, please join what should be a rocking event!

We are gathering on Saturday 11/26 at 2:00 PM in LA's Pico-Robertson for a Thanksgiving Seder!

We will read diverse expressions of gratitude to mark this moment, then we will be in conversation about how we express- and practice- gratitude.

(Be in touch with a direct message to find out more details!)

Members of the Jerusalem School and friends are reuniting for a night filled with teaching, learning, reflection, and connection. The roving band will join together in the streets of the holy city of Jerusalem at 9:00 PM on Saturday night and proceed to undertake a spiritual, intellectual adventure in an order of distinct stations; we will encounter / critique and otherwise pursue "emes" (i.e. truth) for ourselves in this season. To learn more about what is planned, DM here!

Join us this afternoon at 4:00 PM for a pop-up park gathering @ Gan Sacher in Jerusalem (near Betzalel St.). We'll meet up and enjoy one another's presence. DM me for more details!

Join us this afternoon 4:30 for a pop-up park gathering @ HaMuze'on Garden Park in Jaffa, right by HaTsorfim St.
We'll meet up, enjoy one another's presence over some food, and talk about poetry of the sea! DM me for more details

Folks are gathering on 5/3/22 to sing Nigunim, wordless melodies from the Jewish tradition. This is a meditative, spiritual, contemplative experience of community and mystery. We will sit together in silence in between each Nigun. There will be time for socializing at the beginning and end. All levels of singing experience and identities are invited. Come sing with us whether you love Nigunim or have no clue what they are.
You will find us at 6:30pm. By 7:30pm, we will be done, and we we will chow down with some delicious vegetarian food. Congregation Beth Am

It was an honor to be featured on the podcast (link in bio) If you have a little time, check the episode out and let us know what comes up as you listen to the conversation about contemporary identity, education, and innovation. @ .knobloch

HaMidbar Medaber - The desert speaks.

Thank you to poets and seekers from across California, and as far away as Massachusetts, for coming out for the Heshbon HaNefesh Poetry Retreat this past weekend.

Looking forward to more learning, writing, and community, ahead. Kadima!

HaMidbar Medaber - The desert speaks.

Thank you to poets and seekers from across California, and as far away as Massachusetts, for coming out for the Heshbon HaNefesh Poetry Retreat this past weekend.

Looking forward to more learning, writing, and community, ahead. Kadima!

“Of course we were at Sinai:
How is it then that the text could imply we were not there?”

“To accept our absence from Sinai would be to allow the male text to define us and our connection to Judaism. To stand on the ground of our experience, on the other hand, to start with the certainty of our membership in our own people is to be forced to re-member and recreate its history, to reshape Torah.”
- Judith Plaskow

Chag Shavuot Sameach!

"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me"
- Martin Buber

Join us Today! May 2, 5:00 PM PDT / 8:00 PM EST! Zoom event!
Heshbon HaNefesh: Temporal Meditations on Yehuda Amichai with Robert Alter!
Link 🔗 in bio!

Parsha Explorations: Emor - literature event by Opening Doors w/ Joshua Krug & David Ingber.
Join us today, April 29 - 5:00 PM Pacific @ clubhouse!

What are the meanings of the week’s Parsha? How is blasphemy defined and what makes it problematic ? Is the idea of priesthood relevant? What in the text, if anything, resonates in the Clubhouse age?

Existed to welcome!
“Political Judaism? Facing history”, don't miss our conversation with Dr. Shaul Magid!
Today, April 27 - 5:00 PM Pacific
Link 🔗 in bio!
Join us!

Join us for today's conversation with Jessie Duke ! April 27, 4:00 PM Pacific talk “When do we count? A numerological approach”. Link 🔗 in bio!

Sunday morning discussion w/ Dr. Weiss-Greenberg ! Today! April 25, Join us at 9:00 AM !

Join us for today's talk with Rabbi Jordie Gerson!
Tuesday, April, 20
5:30 PM PST!

Join us for our weekly ZoomLehrhaus learning session!
4/11 - 5:00 - 6:30 PM Pacific
8: 00 PM Eastern!
Recorded Conversation-on-Zoom with Dr. Susan Kardos, author of “Not Bread Alone": Clandestine Schooling and Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust
Join @ ZoomLink (Meeting ID: 942 8854 6876)

Save the date!
Join us for the European/Israeli voices event! Sunday, 11th of April - 6PM!
See link in bio!