ShavuotLIVE has concluded. Watch all sessions via the video playlist below!
We had a great time at ShavuotLIVE! Did you as well? Please help us create Shavuot gatherings like this in the future.
Start-Time: Saturday, June 8th, 5 pm ET/2 pm Pacific/10 pm UK
Conclusion: Sunday, June 9th, 5 pm ET/2 pm Pacific/10 pm UK
What’s Shavuot?
What’s ShavuotLIVE?
Shavuot is a Jewish holiday that many have never observed before. But we think it's a great one! One of its traditions has been staying up all night, learning in community with others. But we're greedy. We don’t just want all-night...we want all-night AND all-day! So we offer an event called ShavuotLIVE, which creates a marathon of 24 straight hours of learning, for FREE, available anywhere on the planet with internet access. Over the course of its first three years, ShavuotLIVE has reached over 3,000 participants, all around the world!
We’ve invited an incredible slate of presenters, who will collectively teach for 24 straight hours, beginning at 5 pm Eastern on Saturday, June 8th and concluding at 5 pm Eastern on Sunday, June 9th.
You can come for just 1 session, go to 3 or 4, or shoot for 24 in a row! Whatever works for you, we want your Shavuot to be special, and full of learning!
ShavuotLIVE: Presenter Schedule
Stay tuned for titles of all of these presenters’ ShavuotLIVE sessions. These will be announced in the near future.
Saturday, June 8th
5-6 pm ET: “Welcome to ShavuotLIVE!” - Lex Rofeberg + The Judaism Unbound Team
6-7 pm ET: ¨Thinking Judaism in the Americas¨- Sarah Imhoff
7-8 pm ET: “ Shavuot Without the Rabbis: How Ancient Jews Celebrated” - Barbara Thiede
8-9 pm ET: “Religion for People who Think They're Allergic to Religion” - Jericho Vincent
9-10 pm ET: “Cyber-Magick for Jewish Witches and Witchy Jews (like you!)” - Ketzirah Lesser
10-11 pm ET: “Sinai: The Torah of Ceasefire and Liberation for All” - Abby Stein
11 pm-Midnight ET: “Writing and Re-Writing New Torahs” - Benay Lappe & Dan Libenson
Sunday, June 9th
Midnight-1 am ET: ¨Diasporic Deviance and Misfit Mysticism: The Divinity of the Degenerate Yid¨- M (Mazel) Mones
1-2 am ET: “The Fiery Chariot: Is There Torah We Cannot Learn?” - Sofia Freudenstein
2-3 am ET: “A Place Set Apart: Creating Sacred Space In Tabletop Roleplaying Games” - Shawn Harris
3-4 am ET: “Eylu v'Eylu – Holding Conflict in Jewish Conversation” - Irwin Keller
Sunday, June 9th (Continued)
4-5 am ET: “Shavuot and Kislev: Revelation Dreaming in Sacred Dark” - Reuven McCullough
5-6 am ET: BYO (Bring Your Own) Torah
6-7 am ET: “Jews of Multiple Religions…What? Why? How?" - Susan Katz Miller
7-8 am ET: “The True Secret of Torah: Revelation in Everyday Experience” - Daniel Kraft
8-9 am ET: “Wearing the Torah On Your Body: A Practical Demonstration” - Robin Banerji
9-10 am ET: “Pro Wrestling as a Spiritual Practice
- Annie Prusky
10-11 am ET: ¨Who Cares Who Wrote the Bible?¨- Zvika Krieger
11 am-Noon ET: “If You Give a Mouse a Hamantash: Why Fictional Mice are so Jewish” - Lizz Goldstein
Noon-1 pm ET: ¨Despite what your rabbi told you, we still do sacrifices!(?)¨ - Ashton Macklin
1-2 pm ET: “The Shapeshiftin' Bob Dylan: The Fluidity of Jewish Identity in Post-War America” - Todd Brecher and Micah Sandman
2-3 pm ET: “Strengthening a New Judaism in the American Diaspora” - Arthur Waskow
3-4 pm ET: Welcoming New Jews to the Fold with special guest Sarah Hurwitz
4-5 pm ET: “Hadran Alach (We Will Return to You), Shavuot!” - Lex Rofeberg + The Judaism Unbound Team