Where you'll find me August 11-17!

I highly recommend this week o’learning, in New Hampshire, with a few hundred great, smart, friendly, fun, fruity Jews. I went in 2006 as an Everett Fellow, again last years as a “returning Everett” and will be there this year as a teacher. A full list of courses/teachers has been posted for this summer’s National Havurah Committee’s Summer Institute!

Morning:

• Heather Stoltz (Poretsky Artist-In-Residence) - Translating Text Into Textile
• Ozer Bergman - Applied Breslov Chassidut: From Page to Practice
• Mitchell Chefitz - Playing with White Fire
• James S. Diamond - Franz Kafka: A Jew for Our Time
• Harold Gorvine - Israel at Sixty: Forty-One Years as an Occupier, 1967-2008
• Aaron Kachuck - Joseph’s Multi-Colored Hellenistic Coat
• Elie Kaunfer - The Essential Prayer: A Deep Investigation into the Amidah
• Bill Kavesh and Solomon Mowshowitz - A Daf a Day for 18 Years: Deconstructing the Encyclopedia Judaica
• Herb Levine - Welcoming the Homeless Stranger — How a Mitzvah is Rooted in Our Stories
• Judith Plaskow and Martha Ackelsberg - The Unfinished Revolution: Jewish Feminism in a “Post-Feminist” Age
• Dawn Rose - Words and Worlds of Two Prophets: Isaiah and Mohammad
• Joe Rosenstein - What is Rosh Hashanah All About?
• Regina Sandler-Phillips - Speaking the World into Being: Jewish Ethics of What We Say and How We Say It
• Ari Weisbard - Rabbinic Rules for Radicals

Afternoon:

• S. Bear Bergman (Poretsky Artist-In-Residence) - Storytelling, Diaspora, and Survival
• Julia Appel - The Art and Spirit of Prayer Leading
• Mitch Chanin - Controversy for the Sake of Heaven: Facilitating constructive dialogue across political differences about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other controversial issues
• Stephen Eisdorfer - Law and The Law
• Shelly Fredman - The Soul’s Search for Meaning—Creating a Personal Theology
• Bob Freedman - What Words Can Do!
• Bob Goldenberg - What is oral about “Oral Torah”?
• Matthew Goldfield - Infinity and God
• Jill Jacobs and Guy Izhak Austrian - It Goes Without Saying: Power, Passivity, and Social Change
• Eleni Litt - Line, Color, Form: The Shape of Torah and the Kabbalah of Color
• Benjamin - Beyond the Binary: the “Other” Genders in the Mishna and Contemporary Judaism
• Adele Reinhartz - Diversity and Rupture: The “Parting of the Ways” between Judaism and Christianity
• Aviva Richman - The Vagina Monologues Meet the Talmud
• Micha’el Rosenberg - Do We Mourn for the Dead, or for the Living? The Case of Suicide in Halacha

In addition, there are daily workshops, evening programs, amazing prayer options, a lake to swim or canoe or kayak in, hills and mountains to climb, good vegetarian food, music… and more!