ShavuotLIVE 2022: a 24-Hour Festival of
Digital Jewish Learning
What is Shavuot? What is 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 want MORE than just all-night learning. 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, and available anywhere on the planet with internet access. Over the course of its first two years, ShavuotLIVE has reached over 1,000 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 4th and continuing until 5 pm Eastern on Sunday, June 5th. You can come for just 1 session, go to 3 or 4 in a row, or if you’re ultra-ambitious, pull an all-nighter for 24 in a row! Whatever works for you, we want your Shavuot to be special, and full of learning.
ShavuotLIVE 2022: Hour-By-Hour Schedule (ALL TIMES LISTED ARE EASTERN TIME!)
Saturday, June 4th time slots
5-6 pm ShavuotLIVE Kickoff with Judaism Unbound/The UnYeshiva
6-7 pm Laura Yares (Michigan State Religious Studies), How Do you Solve a Problem Like Shavuot?
7-8 pm Jericho Vincent (The UnYeshiva), Queer and Present Prophesy: A Playful and Provocative Exploration of Isaiah
8-9 pm Barbara Thiede (UNC-Charlotte Religious Studies), Naming and Opposing Rape Culture in the Bible
9-10 pm Darren Kleinberg (Aleph Ordination Programs), The Journey of Weeks: A Mythic Journey from Liberation to Revelation
10-11 pm Arthur Waskow (The Shalom Center), Seder in the Streets, Die-ins for Temple Earth on Tisha B’Av
11 pm-12 am Eli Hurwitz (Judaism Unbound/New Voices Fellowship), GRAVEN IMAGES: torah, comics, & cross-media translation
…continuing into
Sunday, June 5th time slots
12-1 am Sara Eifler (Jewish Veg), Almond Milk and Date Honey: Queering Jewish Food
1-2 am Dan Libenson (Judaism Unbound/UnYeshiva), One Era's Trash, Another Era's Treasure: How Jewish Holidays Evolve
2-3 am Lisa Huberman (Beth Elohim) & Xava De Cordova (Shel Maala), ”Russian Doll” as Torah
3-4 am Rebecca Chess (The Torah Studio), with Lex Rofeberg (Judaism Unbound), Pesach Grainy: The Song of Songs, In Case You Missed It
4-5 am BYOTorah (Bring Your Own Torah to teach!, BYOTorah: Now YOU be the Rabbi!
5-6 am Annie Prusky (OneTable), Moo Madness
6-7 am Zvika Krieger (Chochmat HaLev), & Lex Rofeberg (Judaism Unbound), Tobit or Not Tobit: That is the Question
7-8 am Yente Zine, Yente: a Jewish Queer/female/nb-led zine
8-9 am Katie Kaestner-Frenchman (Judaism Unbound) & Sara Moon (Camp Beenu), Building a wild, radical, diasporist British Jewish summer camp
9-10 am Aaron Cooper (Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America), Terrifying Potential: Toward A Cartography of White Being
10-11 am Eric Axelman (Tikkun Olam Productions), Israelism: American Jews and Israel, a Film Preview
11 am-Noon Jordan Mann (Jewish Liberation Fund), Unpacking Jewish Philanthropy, with Jewish Liberation Fund
Noon-1 pm Chava Shapiro (Jewish Zine Archive), Shavuot in Olam Haba (The World to Come): The Poetry of Shavuot
1 pm-2 pm Becky Silverstein (SVARA's Trans Halakha Project), Revelation and Obligation
2 pm-3 pm Yael Kanarek (Beit Toratah), The Regendered Torah: Expanding our Stories
3 pm-4 pm Margalit Schindler (Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation), Preserving Jewish Collections: From Generation to Generation
4 pm-5 pm Judaism Unbound/The UnYeshiva, Siyum (Closing Ceremonies)
If you’d like to check out the speaker lineups from ShavuotLIVEs of the past, or even watch the recording of past years’ events, just click either of these links: ShavuotLIVE 2021, ShavuotLIVE 2020
