Welcome to the 2023 OHALAH conference!

The 2023 Conference will take place from January 8th, 2023 to January 11th, 2023. 
​More details coming soon!
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​The 2022 OHALAH Conference and Annual Meeting took place from January 9th, 2022 to January 12th, 2022.
​The conference was held in virtual space.
​Conference registrants were also invited to participate in the ALEPH Ordination Program
​Pre-Conference Shabbaton, from January 7th, 2022 to January 9th, 2022. Learn more here.
The theme of last year's conference was: 
מה נעבד את יה
We’ll know when we get there! (Ex 10:26)
Post pandemic realities and visions for the future

If you have already registered:
Highlights of 2022 Conference:
We don’t know what’s on the other side of our year of pandemic: How will worship change? How will communities change? How will we be changed in our own work? How will the Jewish world and the larger world change as a result of this year?
The only certainty is the uncertainty, and perhaps this is the blessing.

From January 9, 2022 to January 12, 2022 we shared . . . 
  • Loving community
  • Inspired discussions
  • Soul-nourishing davvenen
  • Communal grieving, healing, and celebrating

We prepared ourselves and our spaces with a video from last year entitled 
​Creating a Mikdash Me'At - A Holy Space in Holy Time. LINK
​Rabbi David Ingber – Keynote Speaker
Rabbi David A. Ingber is the Founder and Senior Rabbi at Romemu, NYC, a community he founded in 2008 that today has over 700 households. A disciple of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Ingber was ordained by “Reb Zalman” in 2004. Rabbi Ingber serves on faculty for the Wexner Heritage Program, The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and Israel, The 92nd Street Y’s program for Rabbinic Entrepreneurship, and other institutions. He was an AJWS Global Justice Fellow, as well as a Rabbinic Fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Rabbinic Leadership Initiative Rabbi Ingber has lectured extensively on the topics of spirituality, theology, Jewish mysticism, prayer and meditation. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Ariel and their three children, Baer, Tal, and Or.
​Hazzan Basya Schechter – Musician-in-Residence
Hazzan Basya Schechter is best known for her group, Pharaoh's Daughter, a seven-piece world music ensemble that travels musically through continents, key signatures, and languages with a genre-bending sound.   She was ordained as a cantor through Aleph in 2016, and  has served for the last eight years as Hazzan and musical director of Romemu, on New York's Upper West Side, as well as for the Romemu Brooklyn Satellite Community. In the summer, Basya is a the Cantor for Fire Island Synagogue, co-leading with Rabbi, writer and scholar, Shaul Magid. Basya's most recent creative work is with Darshan, a musical midrash project in collaboration with esoteric indie rapper/poet Eden Pearlstein (aka ePRHYME).
Rabbi Eva Sax-Bolder - Expressive Artist-in-Residence
As a spiritual leader, spiritual companion and creative artist, Rabbi Eva Sax-Bolder designs transformative learning and ritual opportunities to provide seekers with joyful and creative approaches to Judaism.  Ordained by ALEPH, R’ Eva also serves as Rosh Hashpa’ah, head of Spiritual Direction for the AOP, supporting the spiritual development of the seminary students and faculty. She recently retired as the rabbi of The Shul of New York in Manhattan.
Rabbinic Pastor & Mashpiah Ruchanit Sandra Wortzel  - Expressive Artist-in-Residence
Rabbinic Pastor & Mashpiah Ruchanit Sandra Wortzel relishes integrating what she knows and loves: Jewish Renewal, Expressive Arts, and Hashpa’ah. She encourages seekers to express their yearnings through the arts: uniting spirituality, creativity and nature.  Sandra is the Administrator, a Core faculty and Supervisor for the AOP Hashpa’ah Training.

2021 conference registrants: click here to view the January 2021 OHALAH Conference website


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