Since no one is doing the High Holidays “the traditional way” this year, let’s create a new way!

New Rules Judaism: High Holiday ReCreation is a three-session workshop series designed to help you develop meaningful actions and rituals for a powerful individualized High Holiday season.

 

Sessions

Session 1: Overview and Picking Your Pieces

What are the High Holidays for? Why re-create them? What are we supposed to be experiencing and feeling? How are they supposed to change us? Maybe they never really worked in the past, and maybe this is an opportunity to re-imagine them in a way that works better. You will be introduced to a specific process for re-imagining and re-designing Jewish practices by linking today’s needs and aspirations with Judaism’s core values and wisdom. Begin to visualize a High Holiday experience that truly moves you. Engage in a guided process to uncover the Jewish values and societal needs that most matter to you and that you would be most passionate about linking together in an annual ritual of reflection and kicking off of the year ahead.

Session 2: Getting Practical and Picking Your Brains

Create your own flow for the High Holidays. Move from vision to practicalities. In this session, you will work to turn the conceptual goals from the previous week into a specific set of activities for you (and any friends and family you will involve) to engage with during the High Holidays. You will have an opportunity to share your ideas and plans with the other members of this intrepid group of trailblazers. Feedback from others will help you put the finishing touches on your plan and enrich the experience for you and your family and friends. After this session, you will be ready to figure out what you need to prepare and procure in order to put your ideas into action.

Session 3: Looking Back and Looking Forward

When the High Holiday season is done, we will gather for celebration. We will share how it went and what we want to tweak for next year. We will also consider which ideas we may want to bring to the next holiday as we take our next step in re-building Judaism for our time.

 

The New Rules Judaism Guides

 

Dan Libenson

Dan is the founder and president of the Institute for the Next Jewish Future, of which jewishLIVE is a project. He is also the co-host of the Judaism Unbound podcast, which explores the creative thinking that is driving innovation within Judaism today.

Dan was Executive Director of the University of Chicago Hillel for six years and Director of New Initiatives at Harvard Hillel for three years. He is a 2009 AVI CHAI Fellow. He is the translator of The Orchard by Israeli novelist Yochi Brandes and the translation editor of The Secret Book of Kings by the same author. Earlier in his career, Dan spent five years as a law professor.

 

Natalie Goldfein

Natalie Goldfein relishes helping people learn about themselves and others.  She believes we create a better world for all by bringing our Uniqueness to all we do.  As President of YOU Matter Coaching & Consulting, Natalie is a teacher, life coach and consultant with over 30 years’ experience helping people make changes and smart choices in order to do things better, interact more effectively, feel good about themselves and make the world a better place because they are in it!

Natalie created the Culture of Kindness Annual Challenge, YOU Matter: Own Your Gifts Method Group Process and is the author of Inspiring Energy: Improving Your Life through Simple Changes. 

 

Dates and Times

(choose one track—each session will be approximately 75 minutes)

Tuesday Evening Track (8:00 pm EDT / 5:00 pm PDT)

  • Session 1 (2 hours) - September 8

  • Session 2 (1.5 hours) - September 15

  • Session 3 (1 hour) - October 20

Sign Up

You can sign up for this workshop on Sunday mornings (11:00 am Eastern / 8:00 am Pacific) OR Tuesday evenings (8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific).

  • The cost for the full three-session program is $180.

Need-based scholarships are available for those for whom this cost is unaffordable.

If you need a scholarship please click here.

We will be in touch with login information closer to the time of the sessions.

New Rules Judaism is made possible in part by a grant from the Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah