Welcome to the 2019 OHALAH conference website . . .
The conference took place from Sunday, January 13, 2019 through Wednesday, January 16, 2019, with a pre-conference Shabbaton, January 11 thru 13.
The theme of the 2019 conference was “Ayeka: How We Show Up In These Times." These turbulent times call upon us to embody and en-spirit an ever widening array of roles: prophet; comforter; activist; troublemaker; organizer; contemplative; chaplain; disturber of the peace and more.
The theme of the 2019 conference was “Ayeka: How We Show Up In These Times." These turbulent times call upon us to embody and en-spirit an ever widening array of roles: prophet; comforter; activist; troublemaker; organizer; contemplative; chaplain; disturber of the peace and more.
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SAVE THE DATES:
- 2020 CONFERENCE: Shabbaton, Jan 10-12; Smicha ceremony, Jan 12; Conference, Jan 12 - Weds Jan 15, 2020
- 2021 CONFERENCE: Shabbaton, Jan 8-10; Smicha ceremony, Jan 10; Conference, Jan 10 - Weds Jan 13, 2021
- 2020 CONFERENCE: Shabbaton, Jan 10-12; Smicha ceremony, Jan 12; Conference, Jan 12 - Weds Jan 15, 2020
- 2021 CONFERENCE: Shabbaton, Jan 8-10; Smicha ceremony, Jan 10; Conference, Jan 10 - Weds Jan 13, 2021
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Our keynote speaker for the 2019 conference was Rabbi Mordechai Liebling. Rabbi Liebling is Director, Social Justice Organizing Program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. The Social Justice Organizing (SJO) program at RRC trains rabbis to be Jewish leaders in bringing about a socially just, environmentally sustainable and spiritually fulfilling society. It is the first specialized academic track at a Jewish seminary to focus on justice organizing. You can learn more about the program here, and find additional information about Rabbi Liebling here.
As part of the program, Rabbi Leibling wove in video submissions from a wide spectrum of religious leaders, including Rabbi Tamar Elad-Applebau, The Most Rev. Michael Curry; Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Ph.D., Rabbi Jill Jacobs; Joanna Macy; Rev. Alvin Herring, and Father Richard Rohr. |
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The 2019 conference also featured Musician-in-Residence, Joey Weisenberg, Creative Director of Mechon Hadar’s Rising Song Institute. The Rising Song Institute aims to cultivate the grassroots musical-spiritual creativity of the Jewish people. A holistic nexus point of creative musicians, prayer leaders, and raw collective song, this musical Institute hopes to help reinvent the future of music as a communal Jewish spiritual practice. You can learn more here.
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