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Dear Friends,
Welcome to this momentous occasion—our frst ever Jewish Intentional Communities
Conference! We are so glad you can join us for this exciting event. For the past several
years, our organizations have been thinking together about what it means to live in and
create Jewish intentional communities. As we have grown more deeply committed to
this idea, we have come together to found the Jewish Intentional Communities
Initiative, with this frst conference as the launching point. We are thrilled to see this
vision coming to fruition here at Pearlstone, and are looking forward to next year’s
conference at Isabella Freedman as well.
Together our participant group represents a wonderful and diverse spectrum of people
interested in this topic. For some, this is your frst foray into the idea of intentional
communities, while for others this is another step deeper into a commitment spanning
many years. We are especially grateful to the Jewish Agency for Israel and to Josh E.
and Genine Macks Fidler, for their generous support of this event, enabling both Israeli
and North American leaders of intentional communities to join us throughout the
weekend, share their wisdom, and help this nascent movement grow into its own.
As Jews, we are rediscovering our roots in intentional community. From our ancient
nomadic wandering through the desert, to the shtetls of eastern Europe, to today’s
plethora of short term young adult communal programs, intentional community is a
core part of the Jewish experience. Pearlstone, Hazon, and the Isabella Freedman
Jewish Retreat Center now join together to help spark the next stage of our communal
journey, as we imagine a variety of Jewish intentional communities growing out of this
conference and this initiative for years to come.
While we certainly hope that each of you has a great time over these next few days, that
is, in one sense, the least of it. Our intention is to take what is already happening - ideas,
programs, visions, conversations - and help take them to the next level. There is a good
chance that over this weekend, we may be challenged to broaden our horizons, reexamine what we know about ourselves and our communities, and dare to dream
bigger about what is possible and what we can create together. It may take fve or ten
years to really be able to assess the impact of this frst Conference, but if we're
successful, we hope that, in due course, there will be a whole series of new Jewish
intentional communities developed in the United States, in Israel, and all over the
world.
Im tirtzu, ein zo aggadah. If you will it, it is no dream.
L’chayim!
Jakir Manela
Executive Director, Pearlstone Center
Nigel Savage
Executive Director, Hazon
David Weisberg
Executive Director, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
Babysitting and Children’s Programming Schedule
Nov 14-17, 2013
Babysitting
3-4 year olds
5-6 year olds
7-9 year olds
Thursday
7:15pm-10:45pm
Available for any
children
Friday
9:45am-11am
Available for 0-3
years old
Shabbat Arts
and Crafts
Cooking/Food
Fun
Group Building
Games
Friday
11:15am-12:30pm
Available for 0-3
years old
Group Games
Shabbat Arts
and Crafts
Farm Activity
Friday
1:45pm-3:00pm
Available for 0-3
years old
Cooking/Food
Fun
Group Games
Shabbat Arts
and Crafts
Friday
8:30pm-9:45pm
Available for any
children
Saturday
8:45am-11am
Available for 03 years old
Children’s Tefillah Service (New Dining Room)
Saturday
11:30am-12:45pm
Available for 03 years old
Trails and
Games
Meet the Animals
Saturday
4:00pm-5:15pm
Available for 03 years old
Meet the
Animals
Trails and Games
Saturday
8:00pm-9:15pm
Available for any
children
Sunday
9:00am-10:30am
Available for 0-3
years old
Farm Activity
Art project to
take home
Cooking/Food
Fun
Sunday
10:30am-12:00pm
Available for 0-3
years old
Art project to
take home
Farm activity
Art project to
take home
● Children’s programming is available for all potty-trained children.
● All children’s programming will meet and conclude in the Activity Center
on our lower level.
● All daytime babysitting will be held in the Playroom on the lower level.
● Evening babysitting will be held in both the Playroom and Activity Center.
Session Descriptions
Thursday, 7:15-8:15pm
● Jewish Intentional Communities:
Defining the Moment
Rabbi Sid Schwarz has been a leading voice in
re-thinking the shape of American Jewish life. In
this talk he will place the inaugural gathering of
Jewish Intentional Communities in the context of
American cultural life, the American Jewish
community and Judaic teachings.
Thursday, 8:30-9:45pm
● Plenary #1: Communal Intentions
How are you personally involved in intentional
community? What are your interests and
passions, and where do they intersect with those
of others at this Conference? Through a
participatory and creative process, we will get to
know each other and gain a sense of our
intentions as a community.
Friday, 9:45-11:00am
● Identifying your Community Mission:
Creating Shared Language & Purpose
You have the group together. Now what will hold
you together? What is the mission and vision of
your community that will serve as its foundation?
Brainstorm ways to plan the highest goals in
coming together and how to get clear about the
details and create the shared language that will
be your community's platform. Learn how even
the practicalist and the idealist in your group can
come together on common ground.
● Immersive Programs in Jewish
Intentional Community
Maybe you've already heard about Moishe
House,
Adamah
or
the
Pearlstone
Apprenticeshipthree
different,
immersive
community programs geared at 20's/30's Jewish
young adults. Come hear more from the people
who are helping to reshape Jewish identity in new
and meaningful ways.
● Collective Living in the Urban Landscape
How can neighbors come together in an urban
setting to create strong community? What are
some shared living models for the urban grid?
How can we do this on a neighborhood level, on
a block level, and on a single-home level, and
support collective sustainability in the process?
Join this panel discussion to learn about 3
different models of urban intentional communities
and gain resources that can be used in your own
community.
● Co-Housing in a Jewish Context
We'll explore cohousing as a modern shtetl,
where neighbors diverse in age, income, family
composition, and Jewish observance - and know
one another well - participate actively in each
other's lives, and share a commitment to Jewish
life. The questions addressed by this session
include: What is the cohousing model of
intentional neighborhood? How/why can we adapt
and build upon it in a Jewish context? How is
cohousing distinct from other forms of intentional
community? How are cohousing communities
created, and how specifically is Urban Moshav
working to create Jewish cohousing?
Friday, 11:15am- 12:30pm
● Introduction to School of Living's
Community Land Trust Model
The purpose of the Community Land Trust is to
provide secure access to land for current
generations and protect the land for future
generations, while representing the interests of
the larger community. SOL’s CLT model
integrates
Georgist
economic
principles,
intentional community, ecological stewardship
and education. This presentation will provide an
overview of the history of the SOL CLT model, the
Georgist principles behind collecting land rent,
why CLT may be the best land-holding option for
intentional communities, and how the CLT model
promotes sustainability and social justice.
● Community Leadership & Shared
Responsibility
With great power comes great responsibility. We
know that our communities can have an
incredible impact, but how can we best share
responsibility within a community? What are
governance and leadership systems we should
consider within intentional community? Join this
session to discuss ways to get members
empowered to take on self-organizing and selfgoverning systems, and strategize ways to make
them accountable for their participation.
● Creating Youth Based Intentional
Community
Join Kali, Yoni, and Ira to for an experiential
session about creating intentional community
context for younger children and teens. Learning
from intentional community models and bestpractices to empower children to take ownership,
share responsibility, communicate effectively, and
form healthy, supportive relationships...while still
having fun & being kids!
● Community-Scale Permaculture
Permaculture is an ecological, social, and
economic design system based upon patterns
and relationships found in natural ecosystems.
How can we use this design system to guide our
communities to move beyond being dependent
consumers and grow into being responsible and
productive earth citizens? How can we co-create
a sustainable culture whose relationship with
land, food, housing, and energy are harmonious
with the earth system networks currently
sustaining us? Take a journey on the established
trails of this laid out for us in our Jewish heritage.
Friday, 1:45 -3:00pm
● Manifesting The Vision: Community
Structures, Finding Land & Securing Finances
Now that you have your mission and vision, how
is our community structured and what affect does
that have on acquiring land? With so many
choices, how do we choose from available
properties? How do we navigate acceptance of
our choice within our group, within the
neighborhood and within the purview of local and
state regulations? Learn more about choosing the
right land for your community.
● Establishing Long Term Community at
Pearlstone: Sharing Our Vision & Process
Exploring the case-study of the Pearlstone
Center's communal vision, learn about a unique
approach to developing Jewish intentional
community for the sake of education and
outreach, in service of the wider regional Jewish
community. How can we create Jewish
community models on land owned by the regional
Jewish community? How can this community take
full advantage of regional Jewish resources, both
organizational and philanthropic? How can this
community be created with both local institutional
and individuals' needs and motivations in mind,
and be designed and built with the best chances
for long-term sustainability and success?
● Community Business Models & Social
Entrepreneurship
In some communities, having a shared business
helps keep everyone together and gives
everyone a place. How do we develop
businesses together as a community? How do we
do this while keeping true to our values, and also
supporting the community mission? Explore how
community-based business might look different
and be managed differently than a market-based
business, and what challenges and opportunities
to keep in mind with starting a business in a
community context.
● Creativity & Artistic Expression in
Community Building
Art is a medium which helps us to express
emotions, creativity, dreams, fears, etc. It can be
used for simple playful entertainment, or it can be
used as a therapeutic practice. How can we use
art in our community context to empower
individual expression, as well as collective
expression? This session will incorporate drama
and clay to explore this theme.
Friday, 8:30 - 9:45pm
● Plenary #2: Journeys in Jewish Intentional
Community Building
Introducing a diverse spectrum of conference
participants who can articulate their motivations,
values, challenges, and lessons learned from a
personal journey through intentional community.
Panelists will share their personal stories as Jews
exploring intentional communities and offer
advice to individuals or families who are
considering joining or starting their own
community.
Saturday,11:30am - 12:45pm
● Interpersonal Relationships & Conflict
Resolution
Part of community is dealing with the complexity
of interpersonal relationships. Especially since we
are all connected, each relationship affects the
other. What happens when conflict arises
between community members? How is this
managed in a healthy, supportive way by the
community? How are relationships developed so
tensions do not escalate into full conflicts?
● Intentional Community as a Platform for
Social Advocacy & Justice
Building a community where we live out our
values together makes a strong statement about
our politics and our vision for the world. What
does it mean to use an intentional community
model to engage outer pockets of community in
social justice work? What tools, tactics, and
systems can we use from intentional community
space to make a more just world for all?
● Celebrating Jewish Diversity: Challenges
and Opportunities
If we are to build strong Jewish community, how
do we come together with shared agreements
around our own religious practices and identities?
Is pluralistic Jewish community possible? Join us
for a conversation around the challenges and
opportunities for living in diverse, multidenominational Jewish community.
● Communal Decision Making: Building
Consensus
A community is a collective of many diverse
opinions and voices. How do communities come
together and make collaborative decisions? How
do we do this while respecting everyone's needs
and respecting our time? How is this process
managed? Explore how we can effectively
employ a consensus-based approach to decision
making in building an intentional community,
tapping the wisdom of the entire group and
ensuring greater buy-in from all.
Saturday, 4:00-5:15pm
● Compassionate Communication
How to deal when you hear yourself saying:
"THEY'RE CRAZY and I'M RIGHT!" This session
is for anyone who is looking to strengthen your
practice of patience and empathy among
individuals and communities to transform conflict
and strengthen cultures of peace. We will also
share experiences and tools among participants
for those looking to train members of their
communities in these practices.
● Gender, Elders and Spirit: Celebrating the
Edges Within Community
A community is a mosaic of deep and diverse
relationships. Many of these relationships border
on a sensitive, vulnerable edge; especially the
connections between the masculine and
feminine, between elders and youngsters, and
between human and spirit. This session will focus
on the practices of honoring and respecting these
edges, as a way to develop mature and holistic
relationships within the community.
● Cultural Pluralism: Celebrating Judaism in
Mixed Faith Communities
To varying degrees we have all experienced living
as Jews in a predominantly non-Jewish world.
How do we keep our Jewish identity strong when
we live in communities that are not Jewish? How
can this cultural diversity empower our own
Jewish commitment and curiosity? How can we
coexist through multiple paths of faith within one
community? In this session, explore this sensitive
and meaningful question in safe space.
● Sharing in Mind: The Communal Model
When we are little, we are taught to share our
toys. As adults living in community, sharing can
go far beyond sharing toys. In this model of
intentional community, everything is shared: work,
income, even cars. How are such systems
designed? How does this meet everyone's
individual needs at the same time? Explore the
possibilities in this session.
Saturday, 8:00-9:15pm
● Keynote #3: Whose Community is it
Anyway?
Join us for a FUN evening game show! Let your
hair down, prepare to laugh and celebrate the
silly situations we often experience in intentional
community building and living. Ridiculous prizes
will be given to creative teams and daring improv
actors! Adults only, please!
Sunday, 9:00 - 10:30am
● Open Space Conversations: Facilitated Chaos
Open Space is a unique format to allow untapped
topics or conversations which have only begun to
be explored. We will gather topics suggestions
from the community and post session topics
around the room, creating space for discussion,
while allowing everyone the flexibility to move
around, learn adn contribute as they see fit.
Sunday, 10:30am - 12:00pm
● Keynote #4: Building Community Together:
Next Steps, Moving Forward & Community
Networking
We've had a great weekend together, but how do
we keep the momentum going?
Executive
Directors, Jakir and Nigel, will discuss the next
steps for the Jewish Intentional Communities
Initiative. Join us for this final session where we
dare to dream bigger about what's possible and
what we can create together.
Conference Presenters
Elik Almog (Kehilat Kama)
Elik is one of the members and founders of 'Kama',
an urban community in Beer Sheva. In the past 5
years he was the CEO of 'Tor Hamidbar' an NGO
established by the Kama community in order to
promote social change in the Negev district. After
being the CEO of the "Tor Hamidbar" for 5 years
Elik left the position (but remains a part of the
board) and become the manager of
"HaYerushalmit" – a gap year service program also
established by intentional communities. Prior to his
work at "Tor HaMidbar" Elik used to work as a
group moderator in Beit Morasha and Gvanim
(NGO). Elik Almog is 33 years old, married to Noam
and father to Rona.
Aharon Ariel-Lavi (Garin Shuva)
Aharon Ariel Lavi is the founder and director of the
Nettiot Mission-Driven Communities Network,
reengaging Haredi Ba'aley Teshuva (Returnees)
into Israeli society. He is also founder of Garin
Shuva in the North-Western Negev and co-founder
of the National Council of Mission-Driven
Communities. Aharon runs the Hitzim social
business in the Negev, and is writing a PhD on
Jewish Economic Thought and published a book on
this issue. In 2013-14 Aharon lives with his wife and
three children in NYC as a Tikvah Fund fellow.
graduate of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s
Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training, and is
studying waking dreams for creative transformation
in the School of Images with Dr. Catherine
Shainberg.
Rachael Cohen
Rachael Cohen is a big-picture thinker, captivated
by social systems and social change. She believes
in the process of community building as a means to
remedy social disintegration and repair individual
well-being. Rachael has a master’s degree in
macro social work and community practice, as well
as a certificate in nonprofit management. She is
currently working on relationship-based social
change through the internet forum New Jewish
Communities, and in Falls Village, CT, both at the
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center and
within the local community.
Raines Cohen
Raines Cohen is a Cohousing Coach, a community
organizer and connector, who has visited over 100
cohousing neighborhoods and advised many
forming and established groups and community
seekers and founders. Growing up near Boston, he
discovered the power of people helping each other
in the technology world, forming computer user
groups. After co-founding the Berkeley Mac Users
Helen Bennett (Moishe Kavod House)
Group (BMUG) and working in technology
Helen Bennett is passionate about what brings
journalism and computer consulting, he found the
people together. She works for JOIN for Justice and same communication and compassion skills and
is an organizer at the Moishe Kavod Jewish Social models helped places for living that blend privacy
Justice House in Boston where she organizes
and community. He has served on the Cohousing
Jewish young adults towards building spiritual
Association of the US (Coho/US) and Fellowship for
community and working for social justice. An
Intentional Community (FIC) boards. He wrote the
alumna of Adamah, The Jewish Farm School, and
"Aging in Community" chapter in the book
Yeshivat Hadar, Helen also has experience with
Audacious Aging (Elite, 2008). He lives in Berkeley
community planning, cooperative living, and
Cohousing with his wife Betsy Morris, where
facilitation.
together they lead the world's largest Intentional
Communities MeetUp group, East Bay Cohousing
Sarah Chandler (Isabella Freedman)
and its statewide umbrella, Cohousing California.
Sarah Chandler serves as the Director of Earth
Based Spiritual Practice for Hazon’s Adamah Farm Arjuna Da Silva (Earthaven Ecovillage)
at Isabella Freedman. She is a Jewish experiential From a kosher home in Brooklyn, Arjuna emerged
educator, community activist, and spiritual leader.
to explore the worlds of psychology, creative
She has her M.A. in Jewish Communal and
writing, theater, metaphysics and political
Experiential Education and Hebrew Bible from the
philosophy, studying at Brooklyn College (1963Jewish Theological Seminary. Sarah is a student of 66), The New School (NYC, 1970-71) and the
Kohenet: The Hebrew Priestess Institute, a recent
California Institute of Integral Studies (San
Francisco, 1975-76). Professional
counselor/hypnotherapist. Contributing writer for
Communities magazine. Co-founder of Earthaven
Ecovillage. Board member of Earthaven
Association, Culture’s Edge (non-profit education),
and Celo Community.
Reuven Greenvald (Jewish Agency for Israel)
Reuven Greenvald was a day school educator for
over twenty years, serving in teaching and
administrative capacities. At the Charles E. Smith
Jewish Day School (Rockville, MD), he was the
Upper School Principal and at the Kehillah Jewish
High School (Palo Alto, CA) he was Head of
Ira Dounn (BBYO)
School. A graduate of the JTS rabbinical school and
Ira J. Dounn is the Director of Jewish Enrichment
the University of Pennsylvania, he spent two years
for BBYO’s Northeast Hub. He has previously
(2002-04) in Israel as a Jerusalem Fellow at the
served as Program Director of South Jersey Region Mandel Leadership Institute. Since June of 2007 he
BBYO, Associate Coordinator of Jewish Child Care has been working at Makōm as its Director of
Association’s Bukharian Teen Lounge in Queens,
Community Initiatives
NY, and Teen Educator at Congregation B’nai
Jeshurun in Manhattan. Ira has a Bachelor’s
Michael Gropper (Moishe House)
degree from the University of Chicago, a Masters in Michael is ecstatic to be the Western Regional
Jewish Education from Hebrew College, is pursuing Director for Moishe House. Prior to Moishe House
an MBA at Indiana University’s Kelley School of
he worked for the Jewish Federation of Greater Los
Business, and has studied at Yeshivat Hamivtar and Angeles as the Program Director for Taglit-Birthright
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. He currently lives in
Israel. He graduated with a Religious Studies
Manhattan.
degree from San Diego State University and spent
a year studying abroad in Israel, at Tel Aviv
Josh Fidler
University. Michael has also worked for the
Josh E. Fidler enjoys a diverse and successful
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
business career. He is actively involved in three
(JDC) as a Jewish Service Corps Fellow in Mumbai,
distinct endeavors – real estate, venture capital and India. Yes, there are Jews in India – and have been
investment management. Mr. Fidler serves the
for over 2000 years!! Michael currently lives in San
community as a member of the Board of Johns
Diego, and is happiest when surrounded with
Hopkins Medicine and the Baltimore Community
family, friends, music, and food.
Foundation. He was the Founding Chair of
Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center and
Felicity Jeans (Camphill)
Chair of Capital Camps and Retreat Center.
Felicity Jeans is the Camphill Village Kimberton
Together with his wife, Genine, Mr. Fidler was a Co- Hills Executive Director and Community
Chair of the 2012 General Assembly of Jewish
Coordinator. Felicity has been a Camphill resident
Federations of North America. Mr. Fidler received
volunteer since 1988, first at the Pennine Camphill
his law degree from New York University School of community in Yorkshire, then with a pioneering
Law and his BA from Brown University. Mr. Fidler
adult community forming in Co. Monaghan, Ireland.
lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife, Genine Macks On completing the Eurythmy training she joined
Fidler.
Kimberton Hills in 2005, became manager of the
weavery and fiber arts workshops, the Craft Shop
James Grant-Rosenhead (Kibbutz Mishol)
and a household leader. She became the ED in
James Grant-Rosenhead was born in Leeds,
July 2013 and lives in a household with 9 people, 5
England. He got interested in Jewish leadership
who have developmental disabilities.
and intentional communities at 16 years old by
going to the Habonim Dror youth movement. Since Joel Kachinsky (The Farm)
1999 he has been building fully cooperative, activist Joel Kachinsky is 70, an identical twin, and lived in
intentional communities, intentional community
the Jewish Dorchester section of Boston. He joined
networks and activist projects all over Israel,
The Farm, an intentional community in Summerton,
including as a founder member of his home TN, in 1972 and since 1973 has been legal counsel,
Kibbutz Mishol, the biggest activist urban kibbutz in and secretary or president of The Foundation- the
Israel. He is also on the board of the National
nonprofit, religious, membership corporation that
Council of Activist Communities in Israel.
manages The Farm. He has been practicing law in
Tennessee since 1973 and been a soymilk cooker
since 2005.
private practice designing and building homes for
the past seven years.
Rachel Kriger (Heathcote)
At the Adamah fellowship in Connecticut, Rachel
Kriger learned to fuse her passions for farming,
Jewish ritual, community and personal growth. Now,
as an acupuncturist, she helps others cultivate and
maintain wellness. She lives with her husband and
eighteen other people at Heathcote, an intentional
community 30 miles north of Baltimore.
Stacey London-Oshkello (Living Tree Alliance /
Cold Pond Trust)
Stacey lives with her husband Craig, and their two
children Ayla and Adyn Shai. They currently live
amongst a farming community land trust in Acworth,
NH; where they have resided for almost 10 years.
Stacey and Craig raise sheep, chickens, and many
different types of vegetables, mostly for their own
consumption but do sell some of their farm
Nina Lankin (Twin Oaks)
products. Stacey spends her days caring for her
Nina lives at Twin Oaks Community and is a
children and animals, making nutritious meals,
vocalist for Vulgar Bulgars, Central Virginia's hottest enjoying the woods and outdoors, and offering
Klezmer band. She is very excited to be a part of
nutritional counseling. In addition Stacey loves to
the first Jewish Intentional Communities
read, take hot baths, saunas, and celebrate the
Conference!
Jewish calendar. Balancing time with my family,
time amongst community, and time alone outdoors
Jess Little (Twin Oaks)
is of primary importance to Stacey.
Jess moved to Twin Oaks Community in Central
Virginia at the end of 2005. While living at Twin
Tzur Oren (Ketzev)
Oaks, she's been involved in various aspects of
Tzur Oren is the Program Coordinator of “Ketzev,” a
community life, from economic planning to cooking Jewish Agency program that helps groups of
to running meetings to fixing cars. She's a strong
idealistic young Israelis to create social activism
believer in the community model of living, and
businesses that raise the quality of life in Israel’s
enjoys talking to other people about starting new
geographic and cultural peripheries. As Program
communities.
Coordinator, Mr. Oren is responsible for developing
Tamar Milstein (Kibbutz Kramim)
Tamar Milstein is the visionary, founder and director
of the social business, Community Stage in
Kramim. She has a BA and MA in Philosophy from
Tel Aviv University and is a graduate of the famed
Nissan Nativ Acting Studio in Tel Aviv and the
Mandel School for Educational Leadership in
Jerusalem. Tamar has founded and directed many
social and educational programs that incorporate
the arts. Tamar is married to Amir, they have four
children and they live in Kibbutz Kramim in Israel.
Craig Oshkello (Living Tree Alliance / Cold Pond
Trust)
Craig Oshkello, MLA, has been dedicated to the
design and development of intentional farm based
communities for the past twelve years. In 2000,
Craig started a non-profit organization, Land For
Good , to help keep New England’s working lands
productive. As a professionally trained landscape
architect, Craig delivers farm design, land planning
and green development consulting services to a
broad range of clients. Craig has also been in
the marketing strategy for the program, providing
executive and strategic support to the beneficiaries,
and monitoring their progress. Mr. Oren holds a
bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, with honors,
from The Open University of Jerusalem, with a
concentration in Political Science and
Communications. He is currently working toward an
MBA at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. Previous to
his work at The Jewish Agency, Mr. Oren was
Director of Marketing for the Reut Community
Mental Health Organization in Jerusalem. He also
previously spent three years living in Houston,
Texas, at Optimum Real Estate Investments. During
his 3-year service for the IDF, he was a commander
in the Paratroopers’ division.
Nati Passow (5000 Cedars/ Jewish Farm School)
Nati Passow loves the pre-Thanksgiving farmers
markets in Philadelphia more than life itself. He is
the Founding Director of the Jewish Farm School
and the Program Manager for Hazon Philadelphia.
Nati recently formed 5000 Cedars, a group of
neighbors that is working to convert a vacant lot into
a thriving green community space.
Julie Rezmovic-Tonti
Julie Rezmovic-Tonti teaches Jewish History and
Mishnah at Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax,
VA. Julie and her husband Mat started an
intentional nuclear family in 2007 with the birth of
their daughter, Mayira Tonti and subsequently in
2009 Hami Tonti, and again in 2012 with the birth of
Uri Tonti. They are excited to one day dwell
amongst a land-based, Jewish community. They
love celebrating Shabbat, going on bike rides, and
having musical jams.
Josh Rosenstein (Pearlstone Center)
Joshua Rosenstein spent the past eight years
studying and teaching permaculture, sustainability
and how to grow and preserve food. He developed
the Adamah Dills value added product business in
Connecticut, taught permaculture design courses in
South Africa and developed community gardening
projects in Jerusalem. He spent his first year at
Pearlstone developing the animal program, his
second year as Farm Manager and is currently
serving as Farm Director at the Pearlstone Center.
ecology and the environment. David's book on
ecology and Kabbalah will be published by
Cambridge University next year. He has smikhah
from JTS and from Reb Zalman. David ran the
Vermont Moshav Network in the 80’s before
attending rabbinical school.
Benzion Shamberg (Call of the Shofar)
Benzion Shamberg is enthusiastic about inner
wellbeing that promotes healthy relationships. As
senior facilitator for Call of the Shofar, he teaches
Jewish principles and tools for personal
development, relational health and spiritual growth
through experiential programs. He is also an
acupuncturist and breathwork therapist. Benzion
currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife,
Erin, and 2 boys, Shaanan and Yedidya.
Shoshana Shamberg
Shoshana Shamberg, an occupational therapist,
special educator, potter, and owner of Abilities OT
Services & Irlen Visual Learning Center, has been
involved in secular spiritual and Jewish intentional
community building since she was 14 years old
(now an elder 60 years young). As a world traveler
Yaffa Rubin (Living Tree Alliance)
since 1971, she visited many communities to learn
Yaffa serves as a steward, mentor, outdoor
educator, middle school math and science teacher, about sustainability, natural birthing, crafts, raising a
family in a village, and cultural/spiritual practices to
and Hebrew school teacher while running a LC3
guide living on the planet. A wife of 32 years,
called Roots and Trails; dedicated to ethically remother of 6, including mother of a 35 year old
wilding the earth and guiding Jewish youth and
daughter born on The Farm in Summertown, TN,
families through programs which cultivate
ecological awareness grounded in tradition. Yaffa is and grandmother of 5,Shoshana and her husband,
Aaron, an urban farmer and landscape architect,
grateful to help grow the Living Tree Alliance in
have been involved with Pearlstone Farm since its
Central Vermont.
inception. Both live in Baltimore, MD, observe Torah
Rabbi Sid Schwarz (Clal)
Judaism as adults, and grew up in secular homes
Rabbi Sid Schwarz is the director of Clal’s Clergy
and communities.
Leadership Incubator (CLI) a new, two-year
program for early career rabbis designed to create Kali Silverman (Habonim Dror)
visionary spiritual leaders with the skills to transform Kali Silverman is the Mazkira Klalit, National
Director, of Habonim Dror North America. She grew
American synagogues. CLI is part of the Rabbis
Without Borders portfolio of programs. Schwarz is up in Elkins Park, PA and currently lives in
Brooklyn, NY. She was Rosh (Director) of Camp
the author of Jewish Megatrends: Charting the
Course of the American Jewish Community (Jewish Galil (Ottsville, PA) in 2011 and 2012. Kali
graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in
Lights) and Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New
Geography and Urban Studies.
Generation of Jews can Transform the American
Synagogue (Jewish Lights).
Yoni Stadlin (Eden Village Camp)
Yoni Stadlin founded and directs Eden Village
Rabbi David Seidenberg
Rabbi David Seidenberg, founder of NeoHasid.org, Camp, the pluralistic Jewish organic farm-to-table
sleepaway camp an hour north of NYC. In addition
teaches text and music, Jewish thought and
spirituality, in their own right and in relation to
to Eden Village, he has experienced a wide variety
Jewish and other spiritual thought and practice to
bear on seeking peace, pursuing justice, healing
the earth, and celebrating community. He edits and
writes for its weekly on-line Shalom Report. In
1996, Waskow was named by the United Nations a
“Wisdom Keeper” among forty religious and
intellectual leaders who met in connection with the
Habitat II conference in Istanbul. In 2001, he was
Roger Studley (Urban Moshav)
presented with the Abraham Joshua Heschel Award
Roger Studley is the founder of Urban Moshav, a
by the Jewish Peace Fellowship. In 2005, he was
non-profit established to develop Jewish cohousing. named by the Forward, the leading Jewish weekly
An active Jewish leader, Roger has co-chaired a
in America, one of the "Forward Fifty" as a leader of
Hazon Food Conference, organized shechitot for
the Jewish community. In 2007, he was named by
two others, been an organizer of San Francisco's
Newsweek one of the fifty moist influential American
Mission Minyan, and co-founded Berkeley's East
rabbis, and was presented with awards and honors
Bay Minyan. He is married to Chai Levy, Rabbi of
by groups as diverse as the Neighborhood Interfaith
Congregation Kol Shofar in Tiburon, CA, and can't
Movement of Philadelphia and the Muslim American
wait to see their son Ezra frolicking in the play room Society Freedom Foundation.
and open space of Berkeley Moshav, one of the
Ari Witkin (Pearlstone Center)
first-ever Jewish cohousing communities.
Ari Witkin is a native of Minneapolis and graduate of
Karen Stupski (Heathcote)
Goucher College, and the outgoing Apprenticeship
Karen Stupski is a sustainability educator, grant
and Multicultural Coordinator at the Pearlstone
writer, and communitarian. She currently serves as Center. For the last two years Ari has had the
a faculty member at Goddard College,
incredible opportunity to make Pearlstone his home:
Development Director for the Gunpowder Valley
farming, teaching, and building community with and
Conservancy (a watershed organization and land
within Pearlstone’s unique organization. He
trust) and Executive Director of School of Living (a coordinates Kulanu Inc.’s Jewish community
community land trust). Karen lives at Heathcote
programs in Kenya, is a member of the Jonah
Community, an intentional community dedicated to House nonviolence and resistance community, and
sustainable living, where she coordinates the
an organizer and community builder.
permaculture education program.
of communal settings, from leading service-learning
trips in Israel, Mexico and Turkey; to living aloft in
endangered redwood trees with other activists; to
currently being "intentional neighbors" in Beacon,
NY, with friends with whom he and his wife share
meals, childcare and taking care of chickens and
compost.
Stephan Sylva (Eastern Village Cohousing)
Stephan D. Sylvan co-founded the Eastern Village
Cohousing Community, one of the most
environmentally advanced residential buildings in
the United States. Stephan is also Partnership
Programs Coordinator for U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, responsible for coordinating and
advising EPA's 90 Voluntary Partnership Programs
as part of EPA's National Center for Environmental
Innovation. In a previous role, Stephan led the team
that developed and launched the Energy Star Home
Electronics family of programs. He also has
contributed to several interfaith environmental
projects.
Conference Staff
Yigal Deutscher (Hazon, Shmita Project
Manager; 7Seeds)
Yigal Deutscher, manager of the Shmita Project, is
an educator, farmer, and permaculture designer.
After participating in the Adamah fellowship, he
continued his training with the University of
California, Santa Cruz (Center for Agroecology &
Sustainable Food Systems), as well as with the
Permaculture Research Institute in Australia. Until
2010, he was the farm manager and permaculture
educator at the Chava v’Adam farm in Israel. He is
the founder of 7Seeds, an educational platform
combining Jewish teachings & Permaculture Design
Rabbi Arthur Waskow (Shalom Center)
strategies, as well as the author of 'Envisioning
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph. D., founded (in 1983)
and directs The Shalom Center, a prophetic voice in Sabbatical Culture: A Shmita Manifesto.'
Jewish, multireligious, and American life that brings
Jakir Manela (Pearlstone, Executive Director)
Jakir Manela is the executive director of the
Pearlstone Center. Jakir came to Pearlstone in
2006 by way of the Teva Learning Center, COEJL,
and the University of Wisconsin. Jakir founded and
built the farm and program at Pearlstone, and now
is responsible for the entire organization. Jakir is
married to Netsitsah, and they have two sons Lev
and Shama. The Manela family’s dream is to
establish a land-based pluralistic Jewish community
practicing sustainable agriculture and healthy living
here at Pearlstone.
Ecology from Evergreen State College in Olympia,
WA. He lives in Falls Village, CT with his wife
Megan, whom he met when she worked for the
Adamah Farm & Fellowship at Isabella Freedman.
Neely Snyder (Pearlstone, Director of Signature
Programs)
Neely Snyder is the Director of Signature Programs
at Pearlstone Center. She has dedicated 15+ years
to the field of informal Jewish education in both lay
and professional roles. Her experience includes
directing the Baltimore chapter of TCI, serving
Jewish teens in local non-Jewish independent
Morris Panitz (Pearlstone, Director of Programs) schools, serving as Director of Informal Education
Morris Panitz grew up in Norfolk, VA and attended
at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in
the University of MD where he studied Philosophy
Philadelphia, various educator roles in Jewish day
and Jewish studies. He participated in the Adamah and overnight camps, and holding professional and
Fellowship, and served as an apprentice at Ocean volunteer positions with United Synagogue Youth.
Air farms before joining the team at Pearlstone
Neely has a Master's Degree in Jewish Education
Center in February. He is currently Director of
from The Jewish Theological Seminary. She is
Programs at the Pearlstone Center.
passionate about providing pluralistic immersive
experiences that support life-long development of
Nigel Savage (Hazon, Executive Director)
Jewish identity.
Nigel Savage, originally from Manchester, England,
founded Hazon (Hebrew for "vision") in 2000.
Liz Traison (Hazon, Program Associate)
Before founding Hazon Nigel was a professional
Liz Traison is on her way to becoming a certified
fund manager in the Wall Street equivalent in the
health coach. She is a graduate of The University of
UK. He has an MA in History from Georgetown, and Michigan where she received a BA in History and in
learned at Pardes, Yakar and the Hebrew
Judaic Studies. She also studied at Midreshet
University. Hazon was recognized by the Sierra
Lindenbaum and Hebrew University. She is thrilled
Club as one of 50 leading faith-based
to be a Program Associate at Hazon and also to be
environmental organizations in the US. In 2008
doing social justice programming for MASA Alumni.
Nigel was named a member of the Forward 50 - the She likes being outside, particularly on Skeleton
annual list of the 50 most influential Jewish people Lake. And also being inside, specifically doing
in the United States. Nigel is thought to be the first creative workshops in prison.
English Jew to have cycled across South Dakota on
David Weisberg (Isabella Freedman, Executive
a recumbent bike.
Director)
Adam 'Segulah' Sher (Isabella Freedman,
David Weisberg has served as the Executive
Director of Transformative Experiences)
Director of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat
Adam 'Segulah' Sher serves as Hazon's Director of Center since the spring of 2011 and is set to
Transformative Experiences, headquartered at
become the CEO of Hazon following an
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. With a
organizational merger. Prior to Freedman, David
fantastic team, Segulah produces Elat Chayyim
spent four years as the Executive Director of
retreats, Hazon Bike Rides and Food Conferences, Friends of the Arava Institute. His Jewish
Adamah Farms Vacations, the Teva Seminar on
communal service career began in the late 1990’s,
Environmental Education, Holiday festivals, and
serving for nearly a decade as the CEO of the
more. Segulah earned his Master's degree in
Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg and the
Transformative Education from Antioch Universit
Jewish Community Center of Greater Harrisburg.
Seattle, and his Bachelor's degree in Noospheric
Community Gallery
Room 103
Throughout the weekend, we encourage you to check out the displays in our
Community Gallery. Intentional communities represented at the conference (Jewish
and secular, American and Israeli, established and in formation) have brought
information about their communities. Please visit, ask, explore, and learn!
Community
Representative
The Farm
Joel Kachinsky
Heathcote
Rachel Kriger
Camphill Village, Kimberton
Hills
Felicity Jeans
Twin Oaks
Jess Little
Earthaven Ecovillage
Arjuna Da Silva
Mount Eden Ecovillage
Eastern Village Cohousing
Steven Welzer
Stephan Sylvan
Urban Moshav
Matovu Farms
Living Tree Alliance
Roger Studley
Tovah
Kinderlehrer
Yaffa Rubin
Yiddish Farm
Yisroel Bass
Moishe Kavod House
Helen Bennett
Kibbutz Mishol
Garin Shuva
James GrantRosenhead
Aharon Ariel-Lavi
Kehilat Kama
Kibbutz Kramim
Elik Almog
Tamar Milstein
Teaser
Intentional community living on three square miles in
southern middle Tennessee; founded in 1971
Longstanding intentional community 30 miles north
of Baltimore, MD
Farming and handcrafting community; includes
adults with developmental disabilities; founded
1972, Southeast PA
Intentional community in rural Virginia; founded in
1967
Aspiring ecovillage in mountain forest setting near
Asheville, NC founded 1995
Project in formation in New Jersey
Urban garden condo community in Silver Spring,
MD
Jewish cohousing project in Berkeley, CA
Holistic and educational farm in NW Pennsylvania;
building community on site
Multi-generational, ecologically oriented Jewish
community in VT
Organic Yiddish educational farm in Goshen, NY;
building community on site
Jewish Social Justice House in Boston, MA for
young adults
Biggest activist urban kibbutz in Israel, located in the
north
Eco-intentional community in North-Western Negev,
Israel
Urban community in Be’er Sheva, Israel
Religiously diverse, ecologically based kibbutz in
Northern Negev, Israel
SHABBAT AT
JEWISH INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE
Hazon, Isabella Freedman, and Pearlstone strive to create an inclusive community
throughout all of our events. As such, Shabbat can be a complicated time, since our
participants come from all backgrounds and have a variety of personal customs. For
some, this may be their first time experiencing Shabbat; others at the Conference may
follow more traditional Halakha (law) regarding Shabbat. In crafting our Shabbat
schedule, we have tried to create programming that will be of interest to all. Feel free to
participate in the sessions and prayer services which you are accustomed to, or use this
weekend to try something new.
If you have any questions about the customs of Shabbat or are lost during services,
please ask those around you, especially the Hazon, Isabella Freedman, and Pearlstone
staff. If you have never observed Shabbat as we are at the Conference, we hope that
you will appreciate these customs and be respectful of those observing them as we
strive to make our own Intentional Community this weekend.
A Day of Rest -- Shabbat is called a day of rest. The fourth of the Ten Commandments
states, “For six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a
Sabbath…You shall not do any work.” Aside from doing physical work, people
traditionally abstain from many things including using the telephone, turning on and off
lights, cooking, using the computer, listening to or playing music, swimming and writing.
Others may use Shabbat as a time to specifically do these types of activities they don’t
get to do during the rest of the week.
Candle Lighting -- All Jewish holidays begin at sunset, thus Shabbat begins at
sundown on Friday night. We mark the transition from work week to Shabbat with the
lighting of candles. This is a way to welcome in Shabbat, reflect on the past week and
prepare for a day of rest before the week begins. Please join us at 4:30 for candle
lighting, where we can bring Shabbat in as a community.
Friday Night Services -- Friday night services traditionally open with Kabalat Shabbat
(literally, welcoming the Sabbath). This is a collection of Pslams, often recites in song
and joy, especially the culminating poem, Lecha Dodi, which ends with the welcoming of
the Sabbath Bride. We have a few different options for Friday night services, use this
time to try something new or find something meaningful to you.
Friday Night Dinner -- Before we eat dinner on Friday night we will start by singing
Shalom Aleichem, a poem welcoming angels into our midst. Following this song, we will
chant the Kiddush, the blessing over the wine and the sanctification of the Day. We will
have one representative make Kiddush for the group, and you are welcome to make the
blessing yourself if that is your custom. The next stage is the blessing over bread, but
before that, people are invited to ritually wash their hands. It is customary not to talk
between hand washing and the blessing over the bread. After HaMotzi, the blessing
over the bread, the meal begins. Shabbat meals are often filled with song, and we hope
you will join us in singing or follow along in the songbooks on the tables. We will end
with Birkat HaMazon, grace after meals.
Morning Services -- In traditional Saturday morning services we read a portion from
the Torah, which rotates each week. At this point in the annual cycle we are reading a
series of laws from the end of Deuteronomy. We also read a Haftarah from the Hebrew
prophets, which at this time of year comes from the book of Isaiah in preparation for the
High Holidays. At this Conference we are thrilled to be able to offer a traditional
Mechitza service, an Egalitarian service, and a Renewal service – in addition to a Torah
yoga class!
Shabbat Day -- After Shabbat morning services, we make another blessing over wine
in a special communal Kiddush. At lunch we will bless the bread and conclude with
Grace after Meals. At the large Shabbat lunch, we will then start with the blessing over
bread, done individually or by table. Because cooking is considered work, typical
Shabbat lunch meals include cold food, and cholent (a stew that is left on the stove to
simmer during Shabbat).
Havdalah -- Havdalah, (literally, separation), marks the end of Shabbat and the start of
the new week. Havdalah is done as soon as three stars are visible in the sky. The rituals
of Havdalah include blessings over drinking wine, smelling spices, seeing a flame of a
candle, and a blessing on separation. Havdalah is intended to require a person to use
all five senses: tasting wine, smelling spices, seeing fire and feeling its heat, and
hearing blessings. Make sure to join us for a communal Havdallah filled with song and
dance!
Glossary of Terms
Intentional
Community
An "intentional community" is a group of people who have chosen to live together with
a common purpose, working cooperatively to create a lifestyle that reflects their
shared core values. The people may live together on a piece of rural land, in a
suburban home, or in an urban neighborhood, and they may share a single residence
or live in a cluster of dwellings.
Sustainable
Community
A sustainable community is one that is economically, environmentally, and socially
healthy and resilient. It meets challenges through integrated solutions rather than
through fragmented approaches that meet one of those goals at the expense of the
others. And it takes a long-term perspective—one that's focused on both the present
and future, well beyond the next budget or election cycle. As a result, a sustainable
community manages its human, natural, and financial resources to meet current
needs while ensuring that adequate resources are equitably available for future
generations.
Cohousing
While cohousing communities may appear similar to some mainstream housing
developments, the people forming cohousing communities organize to practice ideals
of participation, cooperation, sharing, and knowing one's neighbors. Cohousing
communities, typically, use private, home ownership as part of the community's
economic model - making it relatively easy for forming groups to obtain construction
and mortgage financing from conventional banks.
The vast majority of existing cohousing communities had considerable resident input
into thedesign process as it unfolds. For neighborhood-level cohousing, site designs
generally cluster housing with enhanced pedestrian and play areas to promote
frequent, spontaneous human contact - cars (roads and parking) are usually deemphasized and set apart from the homes and primary common spaces. Cohousing
can also take other forms, including large, shared buildings, and groups of existing
dwellings that are retrofitted into Cohousing communities.
Income Sharing
Income sharing is a way of breaking down economic inequalities withing a community.
In communities where members work outside the community, it balances out the
inequalities of different working conditions, income and stress. Often communards
have very different jobs; some are self-employed, others are employees. Some are
well paid, others less well paid. Some have greater job security, others are in
precarious employment. Income sharing creates economic equality and security.
In communities where members work in communally owned businesses, it breaks
down the inequalities which exist between the more successful enterprises and the
ones which either break even or need subsidizing.
Kibbutz
The kibbutz is an original and unique Israeli creation – a multi-generation, rural
settlement, characterized by its collective and cooperative community lifestyle,
democratic management, responsibility for the welfare of each adult member and
child, and shared ownership of its means of production and consumption.
Moshav
The moshavim are similar to kibbutzim with an emphasis on community labor. They
were designed as part of the Zionist state-building program following the Yishuv
("settlement") in the British Mandate of Palestine during the early 20th century, but
contrary to the collective kibbutzim, farms in a moshav tended to be individually
owned but of fixed and equal size. Workers produced crops and goods on their
properties through individual and/or pooled labour and resources and used profit and
foodstuffs to provide for themselves. Moshavim are governed by an elected council.
Community projects and facilities were financed by a special tax. This tax was equal
for all households of the community, thus creating a system where good farmers were
better off than bad ones, unlike in the communal kibbutzim where (at least
theoretically) all members enjoyed the same living standard.
Open Source Village
Open Source Village is being created to provide blueprints, tools, tutorials, and as
many resources as possible to streamline, simplify, and facilitate the launching of
additional projects. Additionally, One Community and all its components are being
designed to be duplicated either modularly or as a complete self-sufficient and selfreplicating teacher/demonstration community, village, or city
Community Land
Trust
A Community Land Trust (CLT) is a form of ownership for the common good with a
charter based on the principles of sustainable and ecologically-sound stewardship and
use. The land in a CLT is held in trust by a democratically-governed non-profit
corporation. Through an inheritable and renewable long-term lease, the trust removes
land from the speculative market and facilitates multiple uses such as affordable
housing, village improvement, commercial space, agriculture, recreation, and open
space preservation. Individual leaseholders own the buildings and other
improvements on the land created by their labor and investment, but do not own the
land itself. Resale agreements on the buildings ensure that the land value of a site is
not included in future sales, but rather held in perpetuity on behalf of the regional
community.
Cooperatives
A cooperative ("coop") or co-operative ("co-op") is an autonomous association of
persons who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual, social, economic, and cultural
benefit.[1] Cooperatives include non-profit community organizations and businesses
that are owned and managed by the people who use its services (a consumer
cooperative) or by the people who work there (a worker cooperative) or by the people
who live there (a housing cooperative), hybrids such as worker cooperatives that are
also consumer cooperatives or credit unions, multi-stakeholder cooperatives such as
those that bring together civil society and local actors to deliver community needs, and
second and third tier cooperatives whose members are other cooperatives.
Egalitarian
Communities
Holds its land, labor, income and other resources in common. Assumes responsibility
for the needs of its members, receiving the products of their labor and distributing
these and all other goods equally, or according to need. Practices non-violence. Uses
a form of decision making in which members have an equal opportunity to participate,
either through consensus, direct vote, or right of appeal or overrule. Actively works to
establish the equality of all people and does not permit discrimination on the basis of
race, class, creed, ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Acts
to conserve natural resources for present and future generations while striving to
continually improve ecological awareness and practice. Creates processes for group
communication and participation and provides an environment which supports
people's development.
Adam
Lauren
Elik
Moshe
Hana
Yisroel
Dr. Allison
Rachel
Helen
Phyllis
Ori
David
David
Lizzy
Aaron
Sarah
Jacob
Rachael
Raines
Yishai
Nick
Arjuna
Perri
Yigal
Janna
Ira
Leemor
Benji
Nora
Alana
Josh
Yoshi
Stephan
Caitlin
Mark (Moshe)
David
Joel
Ranai
Itai
Adam
Levi
Johanna
Eliana
Allenberg
Allenberg
Almog
Arazi
Askren
Bass
Bell
Bender
Bennett
Berman
Bieder
Blank
Bronstein
Cantor
Catz
Chandler
Chationver
Cohen
Cohen
Cohen
Corso
Da Silva
DeJarnette
Deutscher
Diamond
Dounn
Ellman
Elson
Feldhusen
Fichman
Fidler
Fields
Fineberg Sylvan
Fisch
Fisch
Fisher
Frankel
Friedman
Gal
Gillman
Gershkowitz
Ginsberg
Golding
adam.allenberg@gmail.com
adam.allenberg@gmail.com
elik@torhamidbar.org.il
moshe.arazi@gmail.com
noahgpalmer@gmail.com
yisroel@yiddishfarm.org
anjohnson55@hotmail.com
rachkbender@gmail.com
helenmiriambennett@gmail.com
Bermanpo@aol.com
ohbieder@gmail.com
dblank@pearlstonecenter.org
thebronz@gmail.com
lizzcantor@gmail.com
yavnehcollective@gmail.com
sarah@isabellafreedman.org
jchat564@gmail.com
r.copp.cohen@gmail.com
raines@mac.com
yishai@tevalearningalliance.org
tangofranko@hotmail.com
arjuna@earthaven.org
pdejarnette@pearlstonecenter.org
yigal.deutscher@hazon.org
jannadiamond@gmail.com
idounn@bbyo.org
laellman@yahoo.com
benjielson1@gmail.com
norafeld@gmail.com
alanafichman@gmail.com
josh@chesapeakerealtypartners.com
ypfields10@gmail.com
stephan.sylvan@gmail.com
caitfisch@gmail.com
caitfisch@gmail.com
david@kavodhouse.com
jfrankel@jfedstl.org
playacheetah@yahoo.com
itai@kavodhouse.com
adamgillman18@gmail.com
levi@pearlstonecenter.org
jginsberg@njjewishnews.com
eliana.golding@gmail.com
Barbara
James
Lauren
Yadidya
Sandra (Sandy)
Reuven
Michael
Elana
Maxwell
Alex
Jen
R. Yitzhak
Shonna
Robyn
Felicity
Teri
Angus
Joel
Jessie
Rachel
Tovah
Shira
Gary
Rachel
Miriam
Uri
Nina
Talia
Aharon Ariel
Liat
Gilana
Bernard
Shelley
Jess
Neshama
Stacey
Jakir
Nets
Laura
Aurelien
Allyson
Gavriel
Laura
Goodman
Grant-Rosenhead
Greenberg
Greenberg
Greenspun
Greenvald
Gropper
Havusha
Hellmann
Holt
Holzer
Husbands-Hankin
Husbands-Hankin
Jacobs
Jeans
Jedeikin
Johnson
Kachinsky
Karsif
Katz
Kinderlehrer
Klapper
Kornfeld
Kriger
Kudler-Flam
Laio
Lankin
Laster
Lavi
Lavi
Levavi
Levine
Levine
Little
Littman
London-Oshkello
Manela
Manela
Markowitz
Marti
Mattanah
Meir-Levi
Menyuk
bag@agiweb.org
james@tikkun.org.il
lauren.greenberg@hazon.org
yadidyamg@gmail.com
artistinmd@aol.com
reuvengre@jafi.org
michael@moishehouse.org
havusha@gmail.com
maxwellakiva@gmail.com
staceyfelice@gmail.com
holzer.jen@gmail.com
yitzhh@comcast.net
shonnahh@aol.com
robyn@pettagcreations.com
felicity@camphillkimberton.org
teri.jedi@gmail.com
anjohnson55@hotmail.com
jrkach@hotmail.com
jessie.karsif@hazon.org
rrraeee@yahoo.com
tovahkind@gmail.com
klappershira@gmail.com
buyitboulder@gmail.com
rkrigs@gmail.com
miriam.kudlerflam@gmail.com
uriel613@gmail.com
nina.lankin@gmail.com
tlaster36@gmail.com
arilavi@gmail.com
eliata9@gmail.com
gigil276@gmail.com
larkstreet@gmail.com
shellevine@gmail.com
jess@twinoaks.org
neshama.leigh.littman@gmail.com
sloshkello@yahoo.com
jakir@pearlstonecenter.org
netsitsah@hotmail.com
lmarkowitz2408@gmail.com
aurelien.marti@gmail.com
amattanah@yahoo.com
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