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2013Kallahbrochure KKolol EchadEchad Connecting to the Divine Within and Around Us ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal presents The 15th International Kallah July 1-7, 2013 s Franklin1 Pierce University s Rindge, NH Welcome to the 2013 ALEPH Kallah choice is full). Courses fill on a first-come, first-served basis. TABLE OF CONTENTS Some fill very quickly, so the earlier you register, the more likely you are to receive your first choice. About the Kallah Page 2 Morning Classes Page 5 Diverse morning and evening davennen Afternoon Classes Page 9 Davennen (Prayer) experiences are highlights of the week. Take a risk! Check out Contact Information Page 15 a creative or traditional minyan. Choose a chant, meditation, Important Information Page 16 yoga or other offering. If you are a rabbi or lay leader Registration form Inside back cover interested in leading davennen, please contact Rabbi Mark Novak ([email protected]) by April 1 (see About This Kallah — Kol Echad: box, page 15). Connecting to the Divine Within & Around Us Every ALEPH Kallah aspires to illumine and explore an aspect Kallah Dining: Lechem HaNefesh — of our relationship to what is holy. The theme of this Kallah Bread for the Soul, Food for Life asks us to look both within and around to experience the We will be treated to three daily meals from the dining Divine Presence. So, this summer, when we marvel at the sun services at Franklin Pierce. They offer a delicious and dancing on the lake or rising at the top of the mountain, as kosher parve fish/dairy/vegetarian/vegan menu. They are we open to the light in each other’s eyes, or a very personal willing to accommodate most food allergies or other special moment of transformation, peace or connection — may we dietary needs. (Please be sure to mark special dietary needs in hold sacred the One — within and around. the space indicated on the registration form.) What is ALEPH? ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal Al Regel Achat: The Rebbe Is In Every afternoon after is the headquarters of the Jewish Renewal movement: lunch, we offer programming to provide information, advice organizing and nurturing communities, developing spiritual or ideas about various aspects of ALEPH and Jewish Renewal. leadership, ordaining rabbis, cantors and rabbinic pastors, creating liturgical and scholarly resources, hosting retreats Basherte (Connecting Jewish Singles) Kallah provides a and festivals and working for social and environmental unique opportunity where like-minded people can meet and justice. ALEPH programs provide skillful means for living connect from a soulful place. Basherte’s Rabbi Efraim Eisen spiritually-rich modern Jewish lives, will provide workshops, ritual and other including the re-imagining of practices opportunities for authentic connection. such as meditation, sacred chant, embodied “To meet your soulmate, you must first meet prayer, healing services, eco-kashrut, trans- your soul.” formative ritual, music, and the renewed study of traditional texts. Choirs The musical sparks will be flying at the 2013 ALEPH Kallah! This year we Who Comes to the Kallah? Religious have wonderful opportunities for music background and current practice run from a and song. We are fortunate again to offer to z (assimilated to zealous!); singles, couples the opportunity to sing with Chazzanit and families, with and without children; Linda Hirschhorn. Back by popular GLBTQ and straight; healers, teachers, demand, our “Jospel” (Jewish Gospel) artists, authors, information technologists, Choir, led by Sharon Alexander, will mothers, judges, students, religious leaders, return as a morning class offering. consultants, accountants, business owners, designers, fundraisers, and mediators and more. Cabaret & Evening Showcase The Cabaret and Evening Everyone comes to the Kallah for a different reason: Showcase always amaze us with the depth and breadth community; rediscovering Judaism; experiencing Jewish of creativity and brilliant talent at the Kallah. If you have Renewal; learning with a specific teacher; spirituality; learning talent to share, look for the application on our website at in general; davenning (prayer); meeting a lifemate/soulmate… www.aleph.org/kallah.htm. Please send us your completed the list goes on. Whatever YOUR reason, we hope that you will application in by April 15. Contact Deb Barsel at dbarsel@ join us at the Kallah. gmail.com with any questions. Classes Morning and afternoon classes feature master Tikkun Olam Every year we pay attention to how to give teachers offering beginning, advanced and professional level back to the community through a creative project available courses. Select one morning course and one afternoon course to everyone at Kallah. Please note on the registration form if for the week, plus two alternates for each (in case the first you are interested and our coordinator Laura Shakun will be 2 in touch with you. There will also be information about the educator with years of professional experience. Children ages Tikkun Olam project when you arrive on campus. 1-4 will again have the opportunity to experience a program specially geared for young children. Artist Shuk/Bookstore The Kallah Artist Shuk/Bookstore Kids programming just doesn’t stop! We also offer an will be selling beautiful Judaic Fine Arts, Jewelry, Ceramics, evening babysitting program for all children, staffed by Textile Art, as well as books, CDs, and DVDs all week. Artists, yet another talented group of adults, from 7-10 p.m. weekdays musicians, authors, and filmmakers should contact Gayle and on Shabbat. Gale at [email protected]. More information and application Please be sure to contact us if you have a child with materials can be found on our website www.aleph.org/kallah. special needs. We will do our best to plan so that everyone is a htm. The deadline to apply is May 15. part of the group. We still have a few staff positions available. If you are Auction ALEPH will be offering our sixth live auction, experienced in working with children and are interested in a silent auction for services, and numerous Renewal- Kids Kallah, please contact Joanie Levine (503-679-5933; themed raffle baskets at this Kallah! Please watch your [email protected]). Please note: All children participant’s information packet for items you can contribute ages 1-12 MUST be pre-registered for Kids’ Kallah by June 1. — and do bring extra cash, so you can take part! Kallah’s Bechira Teen Program: For ages 13-16 Healing Center Treat yourself to a massage or other healing Kallah’s unique and transformational Bechira (choice) teen modality by a massage therapist, acupuncturist, spiritual program is back again! Based on the philosophy of Wilderness director and more! Torah, teens will be guided through the wilderness to gain Attention Healers: you can “earn and learn” by working insight into their own life journeys through self-awareness at the Healing Center while attending and group building activities, Jewish Kallah. For more information contact teachings, and earth connection. The Lynda Danzig at lbdanzig@hotmail. group will spend four days camping, com before May 1 (see box, page 15). living out of a rustic base-camp, learning skills of living in the wild Special Group Advocacy We work and living in this world. Teens will hard to make sure that everybody enjoy wild plant identification and feels included and visible at usage, basketry, hiking, and campfire the Kallah. We have identified cooking. Space will be created for four groups that warrant special quietude and personal connection attention and will have special to nature. The group will be received advocates for people in their 20s back from their journey by the Kallah and early 30s (Kesher), elders, the community before Shabbat. Bechira GLBTQ community, and those with represents the conscious choices a disability. (Feel free to contact the that each of us must make. As they advocates listed in the contact box on experience how the outer natural page 15). world reveals our inner natures, teens will return with a renewed Kids’ Kallah Kids’ Kallah will perspective on Judaism, the earth, and again be directed by Joanie Levine themselves. and Yehudah Winter of P’nai Or of Guided by outstanding staff, Sarai Portland. Ages 5 -10 will enjoy a rich Shapiro (director of Wilderness program focused on learning about the Torah youth programs) and Baruch Ugandan Abayudaya Jews through art, Schwadron (lead mentor for song, story and tzedakah — plus safely Wilderness Torah’s B’naiture), have swimming in the beautiful lake on campus. The program years of experience in the wilderness and in guiding children will culminate in a child-centered Friday Mikveh, Shabbat and teens through outdoor adventures. Davvenen and a special theatrical performance. A Pre-B’nai Mitzvah group (ages 11-12) will provide The Bechira Teen Leadership Development Program age-specific programming, weaving personal challenges, peer Bechira also offers a Leadership Development Program group community building, and nature awareness, to provide for older teens and young adults, ages 17-25. This is an an embodied exploration of Coming-of-Age. After the first opportunity to develop leadership skills, and provide role 4 days on campus —mostly outside — they’ll join the teen modeling for the younger teens. We have a few slots for program for an overnight camping trip, returning in time for Leaders-in-Training (LITs) who are excited about being part of Shabbat preparation. This fabulous program will again enthu- a team and are comfortable with camping and the outdoors. siastically led by Skye Pelicrow and Rachel Harris. Please email Sarai Shapiro [email protected] by Also returning to Kallah is our wonderful toddler and March 15 if you are interested. preschool teacher, Jessica Jobanek, an early childhood 3 The Kesher MORE ABOUT ALEPH (Connection) Program ALEPH has attracted and energized thousands of seekers Building either returning to Judaism or deeply engaged and Community, looking to reinvigorate their current practice.
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