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      • Welcome to the Jewish Emergent Network

      • The Jewish Emergent Network comprises the leaders of seven path‐breaking Jewish communities from across the United States who have come together in the spirit of collaboration. These include: IKAR in Los Angeles, Kavana in Seattle, The Kitchen in San Francisco, Mishkan in Chicago, Sixth & I in Washington, D.C., and Lab/Shul and Romemu in New York.

         

        The seven communities in the Network do not represent any one denomination or set of religious practices. What they share is a devotion to revitalizing the field of Jewish engagement, a commitment to approaches both traditionally rooted and creative, and a demonstrated success in attracting unaffiliated and disengaged Jews to a rich and meaningful Jewish practice. While each community is different in form and organizational structure, all have taken an entrepreneurial approach to this shared vision, operating outside of conventional institutional models, rethinking basic assumptions about ritual and spiritual practice, membership models, staff structures, the religious/cultural divide and physical space.

         

        The Network ran an innovative Rabbinic Fellowship in from 2016-2020, its first major collaborative project. This Fellowship placed two cohorts of seven select early career rabbis into each of the participating Network communities for a two-year period, in order to train the next generation of enterprising rabbis to take on the challenges and realities of 21st century Jewish life in America in a variety of settings. Stay tuned! The Network is using what it learned in piloting this Rabbinic Fellowship to design path-breaking programs set to launch in 2021. The Network also recently partnered on major justice and holiday programming, including the DAWN Shavuot festival with REBOOT, Confessions of the Heart with Yavilah McCoy, Yom Kippur's For the Sin Of..., Simhat Torah Coast to Coast, Hanukkah at Home, and more.

         

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        The Jewish Emergent Network Organizations'

        Online Offerings During the Coronavirus Pandemic

        Click below to check out Shabbat, holiday, and weekly programming from our Network communities + now you can watch ALL of the all-night Shavuot DAWN festival content that we produced in partnership with REBOOT, plus our High Holy Days and Hanukkah programs.

        Digital Offerings
      • If you missed Confessions of the Heart during Elul, no worries. You can start any time...

         

         

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      • The Network in the News

        Ideas In Jewish Education & Engagement

        What does the word “innovation” even mean? The Jewish Federations of North America asked Melissa Balaban of IKAR and Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum of Kavana to share the nature of their work. They highlight the work in the seven communities of the Jewish Emergent Network and define innovation in the start-up landscape.

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        Announcing the Big, Bold Jewish Climate Fest

         

        How Do You Celebrate Hanukkah in a Pandemic?

         

        Where to Stream Simhat Torah

         

        Reflect for Yom Kippur with Cutting Edge Communities

         

        Jewish Emergent Network & Yavilah McCoy/Dimensions Launch Elul Project

         

        Confessions of the Heart Anti-Racism in Practice is a 30-Day Racial Equity Challenge Open to Anyone

         

        Sending Off Rabbinic Fellows With Love and Blessings After Four Successful Years of the Jewish Emergent Network's Rabbinic Fellowship

         

        Stay Up All Night Learning With The Jewish Emergent Network & REBOOT

         

        Kavana's Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, Lab/Shul ED Sarah Sokolic and Alumni Fellow Rabbi Nate DeGroot on Building the Jewish People One Community At A Time in the Peoplehood Papers

         

        (RE)VISIONing Jewish Prayer, Ritual & Inclusivity

         

        Writing Our Own Rituals For A Modern World

         

        (RE)VISIONing Synagogue Success

         

        The Jewish Emergent Network Conference

         

        (RE)VISION Conference Welcomes Second Cohort of Rabbinic Fellows

         

        Jewish Emergent Network to Hold Public Conference


        Rabbis of the Jewish Emergent Network Stand Together

         

        Applications Open for Next Cohort of Jewish Emergent Network Rabbinic Fellows

         

        Rebooting Judaism

         

        Election Aftermath Tests Alternative Synagogues

         

        Jewish Emergent Network Gathers in New York City 

         

        Jewish Emergent Network Announces First Cohort of Rabbinic Fellows

         

        Ask What Judaism Can Do for You

         

        Thriving Indie Jewish Communities Join Forces to Create Rabbinic Fellowship

         

        Grants to Hire Rabbis Boost Kitchen, ‘Emergent’ Network

         

        IKAR Gets $3 Million to Support National Rabbinic Fellowships

         

        Non-Traditional Synagogue Network Launches, With Fellowship

         

        Jewish Emergent Network Announces Fellowship

         

        Jewish Emergent Network Announces New Rabbinic Fellowship

         

        The term “Jewish emergent” was coined in 2005 by Synagogue 3000/S3K’s Shawn Landres, after a parallel Christian movement with a similar organizing philosophy, and analyzed in his 2006, 2008, and 2012 Sh’ma articles and elsewhere as a new movement of new rabbi-led congregational startups, lay-led independent minyanim, and other “para-shuls” and non-liturgical communities (see also Cohen, Landres, Kaunfer, and Shain, 2007). Landres and Joshua Avedon were the architects of S3K’s Meyerhoff Funds - and Nathan Cummings Foundation-funded Jewish Emergent Initiative (2006-2008). After 2008, Jewish Jumpstart/Jumpstart Labs, under Avedon and Landres, succeeded S3K in stewarding its work in the Jewish emergent field.

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