A chavurah or havurah Hebrew language Hebrew fellowship , plural chavurot is a small group of like minded Jew s who assemble for the purposes of facilitating Shabbat and Jewish holiday holiday prayer services, sharing communal experiences such as lifecycle events, and Jewish learning. Chavurot usually provide autonomous alternatives to established Jewish institutions and Jewish denominations . Most chavurot place an emphasis on egalitarianism in the broad sense of which gender egalitarianism is one piece , depending on participation by the entire community rather than top down direction by clergy. Origins The first havurah in America was formed in September 1960 in Whittier , California. ref http forward.com articles 139829 ref However, most chavurot in America had their origins in the North American Jewish counter cultural trends of the late 1960s and early 1970s. During this period, groups of young rabbis, academics, and political activists founded experimental chavurot for prayer and study, in reaction to what they perceived as an over institutionalized and unspiritual North American Jewish establishment. Initially the main inspiration was the pietistic fellowships of the Pharisees and other ancient Jewish sects. Also, initially some of these groups, like the Boston area Havurat Shalom attempted to function as full fledged rural communes after the model of their secular counterparts. Others formed as communities within the urban or suburban Jewish establishment. Although the leadership and ritual privileges were initially men only, as in Orthodox Jewish practice, the second ... two sequels. A much more widespread chavurah movement soon emerged, including self governing chavurot ... Committee s Summer Institute and at its regional retreats. Origin of term The concept of a Chavurah has ancient roots. The Talmud Tractate Pesachim uses the term chavurah to identify the group of people ... www.chavurah.com Chavurah Directory Category Jewish organizations pt Havur ... more details
refimprove date December 2010 Havurat Shalom is a small egalitarian chavurah in Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville , Massachusetts that has 30 members in a large yellow house. http www.pluralism.org profiles view 74837 Founded in 1968, it is not affiliated with the major Jewish denominations . Further reading Havurat Shalom Siddur Official website of http www.thehav.org Havurat Shalom Sarna, Jonathan. With It Judaism The havurah movement and The Jewish Catalog blended Judaism with the 1960s counterculture in American Judaism A History Yale University Press, 2004 . http www.myjewishlearning.com history community Modern ModernReligionCulture Counterculture.htm Internet reprint Profile of Havurat Shalom. http www.pluralism.org research profiles display.php?profile 74837 The Pluralism Project at Harvard University . Richard Siegel, Strassfeld, Michael and Sharon. The Jewish Catalog A Do It Yourself Kit 1973 coord 42 23 59.1 N 71 7 5.0 W region US display title Category Jewish organizations based in the United States Category Jews and Judaism in Massachusetts Category Somerville, Massachusetts Category Organizations based in Massachusetts Category Independent minyanim ... more details
CSAIR The Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale is a Conservative Judaism Conservative , egalitarian congregation and a member of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism . The synagogue is located in the Riverdale, Bronx neighborhood of New York City. The congregation s spiritual leader is Rabbi Barry Dov Katz, who was appointed to the position in 1998. The congregation was founded upon the three traditional pillars of Judaism Torah , Avodah , and Gemilut Chesed Chasadim religious study and observance, acts of social responsibility, and deeds of loving kindness , respectively. CSAIR s mission statement declares that it is dedicated to enlightening the mind through learning, nourishing the soul through prayer, and creating a caring community. CSAIR has daily morning and evening services, regular holiday services, an additional monthly Chavurah havurah alternative service, extensive child focused religious and educational services, the Marsha Dane Hebrew School, and various adult education programs. Attack by Muslim terrorists In the 2000 New York terror attack , a group of Palestinian American men attacked the synagogue with Molotov cocktail s on the eve of Yom Kippur . Mazin Assi, one of the attackers, was convicted of attempted arson, weapons charges and hate crimes, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. ref cite news title Two Rabbis Find They re Separated Only by Doctrine author Samuel G. Freedman url http www.nytimes.com 2009 05 30 us 30religion.html newspaper The New York Times date May 29, 2009 accessdate April 1, 2011 ref References reflist External links http www.csair.org coord missing New York City Category Synagogues in the Bronx Category Riverdale, Bronx Category Conservative synagogues in New York City ... more details
Infobox religious building building name Kol Zimrah infobox width image image size caption map type map size map caption location Upper West Side , Manhattan , New York geo latitude longitude religious affiliation Judaism rite region province territory prefecture sector district cercle municipality consecration year status functional status Active heritage designation leadership website url kolzimrah.info architecture architect architecture type architecture style general contractor facade direction groundbreaking year completed construction cost specifications capacity length width width nave height max dome quantity dome height outer dome height inner dome dia outer dome dia inner minaret quantity minaret height spire quantity spire height materials nrhp added refnum designated Kol Zimrah is an independent minyan independent minyan or chavurah founded in 2002, based in New York City and meeting primarily on Manhattan s Upper West Side . Its motto is meaningful prayer through music . ref name Michaelson2003 Jay Michaelson, http www.forward.com articles 7093 A Prayer Group of Their Own , The Forward , November 14, 2003. ref The congregation meets regularly for Friday night services which combine Hebrew language liturgy with musical instruments and singing. ref name Michaelson2003 It does not identify itself with any of the established Jewish religious movements , and has a style of prayer that does not fit neatly into the styles associated with any of them. ref http www.zeek.net 801roundtable D.I.Y. Judaism A Roundtable on the Independent Minyan Phenomenon , Zeek , Spring Summer 2007, p. 25. ref Like other chavurot , Kol Zimrah has no rabbi or other professional leadership, and is run completely by volunteers. It uses a two table system at its potluck dinners one table with vegetarian food, and one table with vegetarian food in which all ingredients have kashrut certification in order to accommodate different standards of kashrut in a pluralistic community. ref Sue ... more details
The Kavana Cooperative is an independent Jewish community in Seattle, Washington , formed in 2006 . Kavana is pluralistic and nondenominational, welcoming people from a diverse range of backgrounds. It is based on a cooperative model, where partners and participants take on the responsibility for actively creating a Jewish life for the group. Kavana offers many different ways to plug in to the community, with educational, religious and social programs for both adults and families. Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum is the organization s spiritual leader. Awards In June 2006, Kavana was awarded the Levitan Innovation Award. In 2007, Kavana was named one of North America s most innovative nonprofit organizations in Slingshot 07 08, a guidebook published by the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies. Additionally, Kavana received a 2007 2008 grant from the Legacy Heritage Fund ref http www.legacyheritage.org ip grantees.html The Legacy Heritage Innovation Project Bot generated title ref for its Prep and Practice program. In April 2008, Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum was named one of the Top 25 Pulpit Rabbis in America by Newsweek ref http www.newsweek.com id 131598?tid relatedcl Top 25 Pulpit Rabbis in America Newsweek Religion Newsweek.com Bot generated title ref . In April 2009, Kavana was named one of the Top 25 Most Vibrant Congregations by Newsweek ref http www.newsweek.com id 192586?tid relatedcl America s 25 Most Vibrant Congratations Newsweek Religion Newsweek.com Bot generated title ref . In April 2011, Rabbi Nussbaum was again named one of America s Top 50 Most Influential Rabbi s by Newsweek and Daily Beast ref http www.thedailybeast.com galleries 2809 1 ref See also Judaism Chavurah References references External links http www.kavana.org Kavana Cooperative Official Website http www.newsweek.com id 131598?tid relatedcl Newsweek s Top 25 Pulpit Rabbis in America http www.jtnews.net index.php? news item kavana receives national recognition JT News Kavana Receives National Reco ... more details
Michael Strassfeld is an American rabbi. Biography Michael Strassfeld is rabbi of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism , a Manhattan synagogue. He was formerly the rabbi of Congregation Ansche Chesed. ref Ansche Chesed Rabbi To Step Down At issue is role of rabbi in prominent multi minyan shul, The Jewish Week, January 12, 2001. ref Strassfeld is a graduate of the Maimonides School . He started college at Yeshiva University , but transferred to Brandeis University and graduated in 1971. He holds an M.A. from Brandeis Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and completed his doctoral coursework in Jewish History at Brandeis but did not submit a thesis. He was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1991. Strassfeld first received wide public attention as one of the authors of the Jewish Catalog . He was a leader of the Chavurah movement and was the founding chairperson of the National Havurah Committee from 1979 to 1982. ref Diverse Jewish Havurah Movement Grows Difficult Obstacles Seen A holding Operation Adherence to Law Not Strict, By Kenneth A. Briggs, The New York Times July 8, 1979 http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res F10A17FC3C5C11728DDDA10894DF405B898BF1D3 ref Strassfeld is married to Rabbi Joy Levitt . He is father to sons Max, Noam, and Benjamin and stepdaughters Sara and Ruthie Friedlander, as well as being grandfather to Micah Strassfeld. Jewish Catalog The Jewish Catalog was published by the Jewish Publication Society of America Philadelphia in three volumes 1973, 1976, and 1980 . It is a collection of far ranging topics that should aid any Jew whether steeped in tradition or just discovering Judaism to become personally involved in aspects of Jewish life, customs, cooking, crafts and creation. Publications The First Jewish Catalog . A Do It Yourself Kit. Compiled and edited by Richard Siegel, Michael Strassfield, and Sharon Strassfeld 1973 . The Second Jewish Catalog . Comp. and ed. by Michael Strassfeld and Sharon Strassfeld 197 ... more details
David G. Roskies 1948 in Montreal ref http www.jweekly.com article full 39428 yiddishlands takes readers back to the old country www.jweekly.com seen at 17.01.2010 ref is an internationally recognized literary scholar, cultural historian and author in the field of Yiddish literature and the culture of Ashkenazi Jews Eastern European Jewry . He is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture and Professor of Judaism Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America . Biography Roskies was born in 1948 in Montreal, where his family emigrated in 1940 from Vilnius . His grandmother, Fradl Matz, ran the famous Matz Press in Vilnius, a publishing house that produced prayer books, bibles and popular Yiddish literature. ref http wsupress.wayne.edu books 990 Yiddishlands Wayne State University Press seen at 17.01.2010 ref His mother Masha born in 1906 in Vilnius and her family were forced to flee Europe for Montreal, via Lisbon and New York in 1940. Her Montreal home became a salon for Yiddish writers, actors, and artists such as Isaac B. Singer , Melech Ravitch , Itsik Manger , Avrom Sutzkever and Rachel Korn . ref http www.jweekly.com article full 39428 yiddishlands takes readers back to the old country jweekly.com seen at 18.01.2010 ref He is the brother Ruth Wisse , professor of Yiddish at Harvard University. ref http jewishbookreview.wordpress.com 2010 05 06 yiddishlands by david g roskies ref After learning in Yiddish secular schools in Montreal, Roskies was educated at Brandeis University, where he received his doctorate in 1975. ref http www.jtsa.edu News Press Releases Library Book Talk Roskies.xml Press Release from JTS seen 18.01.2010 ref In the 1970s Roskies was a member of the Havurat Shalom , a small egalitarian chavurah in Somerville, Massachusetts , best known as the first such lay led Jewish community in the United States. A prolific author, editor, and scholar, he has published numerous books and received awards. Roskies ... more details
Orphan date September 2011 Infobox non profit name Ruach Minyan image type Independent minyan founded date tax id registration id founder location 2850 Quebec Street, NW br Washington, DC 20008 origins key people area served Washington, DC, metro area product mission focus Shabbat evening services and dinner method revenue endowment num volunteers num employees num members subsid owner non profit slogan former name homepage http www.adasisrael.org RuachMinyan.htm Ruach Minyan Community Page dissolved footnotes Ruach Minyan is an independent minyan or chavurah in Washington, DC , organized entirely by volunteer leadership and affiliated with Adas Israel Congregation Washington, D.C. Adas Israel Congregation . Its primary activity is Jewish services Friday night Friday night services and dinner . About Ruach Minyan is a traditional, spirited, lay led, egalitarian Kabbalat Shabbat and Ma ariv service that combines traditional, songful davening with Shabbat dinner. ref http www.washingtonpost.com wp dyn content article 2009 04 28 AR2009042803584.html Washington Post article ref Since its founding days it has sought to serve the community by attracting young, unaffiliated Jews to join with it and celebrate the Shabbat in a warm and friendly environment that welcomes and enriches Jews from all backgrounds providing all with a place for prayer, study, and growth. The Minyan derives its strength and warmth from each of its participants, continuously committing to create an inviting communal space to share our ideas, aspirations, prayers and meals. Ruach Minyan alternates between catered dinners and potluck meals at peoples homes that are within walking distance of the synagogue. It strives to be accessible to all and to be a place where anyone can feel comfortable no matter their religious or economic situation. Ruach Minyan attracts connected and unaffiliated Jews of all denominations all ages and from all backgrounds and levels of familiarity with Jewish texts and ritual. ... more details
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