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Brochure

ALEPH: Alliance
for Jewish Renewal
th
presents the 15 International
Connecting With the Divine, Within & Around Us
July 1-7, 2013
Franklin Pierce University
Rindge, NH
Welcome Blessing
ALEPH Kallah 2013
A blessing upon your arrival
We have all made an important journey.
We come from near and far (some very,
very far!); we are teachers and students,
musicians and artisans, grandparents and
grandchildren. We have come for different
reasons … and for the same reasons. Each one of you
is now part of the tapestry of this sacred community.
May this Kallah become your home away from home
and its participants like family during the coming
week. May those you love be near you in thoughts
and dreams. May old friendships be rekindled, and
new ones sparked.
May the questions that brought you here be
illuminated. May your prayers be seeds carried on a
gentle wind. May text, tradition, song and dance
enhance your connection to the Source of All.
We each travel a path like no other’s. We wish for
you that the coming days help light yours. May these
days contribute to the renewing of our tradition, or
world, and ourselves.
-The ALEPH Kallah 2013 Planning Committee
This program booklet was designed to make your Kallah experience as smooth and easy as
possible. Yet, we may not have covered all questions, and we may have made mistakes.
Please keep your sense of humor and flexibility, and be sure to check our bulletin boards for
updates and corrections. Blessings for a transformative week!
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ALEPH Kallah 2013
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
A blessing upon your arrival.................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................................. 3
Weekday Schedule-At-A-Glance ........................................................................................................................... 4
Master Schedule ................................................................................................................................................... 5
Logistics ............................................................................................................................................................. 10
Healing Center .................................................................................................................................................... 18
Rindge, NH Local Area ......................................................................................................................................... 22
20 years of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal................................................................................................. 27
Classroom Assignments ..................................................................................................................................... 30
Weekday Davennen (Prayer) Schedule ............................................................................................................... 31
Lunch & Learn ..................................................................................................................................................... 41
The Rebbe Is In! ................................................................................................................................................... 42
Films .................................................................................................................................................................... 46
Affinity Groups .................................................................................................................................................... 49
Evening & Late Night Activities ........................................................................................................................... 50
Kids Programming Overview ............................................................................................................................. 54
The Gift of the Sabbath ....................................................................................................................................... 58
Advertisements ................................................................................................................................................... 71
PROGRAM EVALUATION ..................................................................................................................................... 78
Campus Map ....................................................................................................................................................... 82
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At-A-Glance Schedule
ALEPH Kallah 2013
Weekday Schedule-At-A-Glance
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ALEPH Kallah 2013
Master Schedule
Master Schedule
MONDAY
July 1
2:00 – 11 PM
1:15
2:15
3:15
3:30
5:00
5:30 – 7:30
5:45
6:30 – 7:45
7:00 – 10
7:00
7:00 – 8:00
7:30 – 8
8 – 10
10 – 11:00
Bookstore/Giftshop Open
Parent & Teen Orientation
Parent Orientation (kids ages 1-12)
KidKallah Begins
Kallah Orientation
Reunite with Kids at Orientation
Dinner
Mincha
A Capella Choir Rehearsal / Hirschhorn
Evening Childcare
Bechira Teen Program
Affinity Groups
Ma'ariv
Welcome Program
Hall Monitors (Children in Rooms)
Spagnuolo Hall
Marcucella 126
Fitzwater Center
Fitzwater Center
Tent
Tent
Dining Room (Campus Center)
Cheney Hall
Cheney
Clubhouse (near Bubble)
Marcucella 126
Varied Locations
Tent
Tent
Dorms
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Master Schedule
ALEPH Kallah 2013
Please note: Afternoon Times (PM) are in bold
TUESDAY
July 2
6:45am – 8:45am
6:45am – 8:45am
8:00am – 11:00pm
8:00am – 11:00pm
8:00am – 8:30am
8:45am
9:00am – 9:20am
9:30am – 11:30am
11:45am
11:30am – 1:30pm
12:45pm – 2:00pm
1:00pm – 3:00pm
2:00pm
2:15pm – 3:15pm
3:30pm – 5:30pm
5:45pm
5:45pm
5:30pm – 7:30pm
7:00pm – 10:00pm
6:30pm – 7:45pm
6:45pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:30pm – 8:00pm
8:00pm – 10:00pm
10:00pm – 11:00pm
9:45pm
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Morning Davvennen
Breakfast
Silent Auction Open
Bechira Teen Program Send-Off
KidKallah Drop-Off
Morning Classes: Spirit Buddy Time
Morning Classes
KidKallah Pick-Up
Lunch
Intergenerational Choir (Avni)
Tikkun Olam Project
KidKallah Drop-Off
The Rebbe Is In (Workshops & Films)
Afternoon Classes
KidKallah Pick-Up
Mincha
Dinner
Evening Childcare
A CappellaChoir Rehearsal (Hirschhorn)
Meet the Artist/Author Reception
Affinity Groups
Ma'ariv
Evening Programs (3 Choices)
Hall Monitors (Children in their Rooms)
Late Night Jam
Varied Locations
Spagnuolo Hall (Campus Cntr)
Peterson Lawn (rain loc: inside)
Fitzwater Center
Varied Locations
Varied Locations
Fitzwater Center
Cheney Hall
Marcucella 124
Fitzwater Center
Varied Locations
Varied Locations
Fitzwater Center
Cheney Hall
Cheney Hall
Spagnuolo Hall (Campus Cntr)
Varied Locations
Cheshire Community Room
Varied Locations
Dorms
Tent
ALEPH Kallah 2013
Master Schedule
WEDNESDAY
July 3
6:45am – 8:45am
6:45am – 8:45am
8:00am – 11:00pm
8:00am – 11:00pm
8:45am
9:00am – 9:20am
9:30am – 11:30am
11:45am
11:30am – 1:30pm
12:45pm – 2:00pm
1:00pm – 3:00pm
2:00pm
2:15pm – 3:15pm
3:30pm – 5:30pm
5:45pm
5:45pm
5:30pm – 7:30:pm
7:00pm – 10:00pm
6:30pm – 7:45pm
7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:30pm – 8:00pm
8:00pm – 11:00pm
10:00pm – 11:00pm
Morning Davvenen
Breakfast
Silent Auction Open
KidKallah Drop-Off
Spirit Buddy Time (In AM Class)
Morning Classes
KidKallah Pick-Up
Lunch
Tikkun Olam Project
KidKallah Drop-Off
The Rebbe Is In
Afternoon Classes
Mincha (Healing Service)
KidKallah Pick-Up
Dinner
Evening Childcare
A CappellaChoir Rehearsal
Affinity Groups
Ma'ariv
Cabaret
Hall Monitors (kids in rooms)
Varied Locations
Spagnuolo Hall (Campus Center)
Fitzwater Center
Varied Locations
Varied Locations
Fitzwater Center
Cheney Hall
Marcucella 124
Fitzwater Center
Varied Locations
Varied Locations
Cheney Hall
Fitzwater Center
Cheney Hall (Hirschhorn)
Varied Locations (See A - Z section)
Tent
Tent
All Dorms
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Master Schedule
ALEPH Kallah 2013
THURSDAY
July 4
6:45am – 8:45am
6:45am – 8:45am
8:00am – 11pm
8:00am – 11pm
Morning Davvenen
Breakfast
Silent Auction Open
Varied Locations
8:00am – 8:30am
Pre-B'nai Mitzvah Leavetaking Circle
Peterson Lawn (Rain Loc: Inside)
(for parents & community)
8:45am
KidKallah Drop-Off
Fitzwater Center
9:00am – 9:20am
Varied Locations
9:30am – 11:30am
Morning Classes
Varied Locations
11:45am
11:30am – 1:30pm
KidKallah Pick-Up
Lunch
Fitzwater Center
12:45pm – 2:00pm
1:00pm – 3 :00pm
Tikkun Olam Project
Cheney Hall
Marcucella 124
2:00pm
KidKallah Drop-Off
Fitzwater Center
2:15pm – 3:15pm
The Rebbe Is In
Varied Locations
3:30pm – 5:30pm
Afternoon Classes
Varied Locations
5:45pm
Mincha
Cheney Hall
5:45pm
5:30pm – 7:30pm
7:00pm – 10pm
KidKallah Pick-Up
Dinner
Evening Childcare
Fitzwater Center
6:30pm – 7:45pm
A CappellaChoir Rehearsal
Cheney Hall (Hirschhorn)
6:30pm – 7:30pm
ALEPH Thanks You Dessert Reception
Lakeside Center
7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:30pm – 8:00pm
Affinity Groups
Ma'ariv
Varied Locations (See A - Z section)
Cheshire Community Room
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Evening Programs (3 Choices)
Varied Locations
10:00pm – 11:00pm
Hall Monitors (Children in Rooms)
Dorms
9:45pm
Late Night Jam Session
Tent
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ALEPH Kallah 2013
Master Schedule
FRIDAY
July 5
6:45am – 8:45am
6:45am – 8:45am
8:00 – 3:45 PM
8:00am
8:45
9:00 – 9:20
9:30 – 11:30
11:45
11:30 – 1:30
12:15 – 1:30
12:15 – 1:20
12:45 – 1:15
1:15
1:30
1:30 – 3:30
3:45 – on
Morning Davvenen
Breakfast
Silent Auction Open
KidKallah Drop-Off
Morning Classes
KidKallah Pick-Up
Lunch
A CappellaChoir Rehearsal (Hirschhorn)
Pre-B'nai and Teen Return Circle
KidKallah Drop-Off
Silent Auction Closes
Afternoon Classes
Getting Ready for Shabbat!!!
(see separate Shabbat Section)
Varied Locations
Fitzwater Center
Varied Locations
Varied Locations
Fitzwater Center
Cheney Hall
Fitzwater Center
Peterson Lawn (rain loc: inside)
Fitzwater Center
Varied Locations
Varied Locations
Breakfast
Morning Davvenen
Bechira Teens Closing Circle
KidKallah Drop-Off
Spirit Buddy Time
Closing Program
Varied Locations
Marcucella 126
Fitzwater Center
Varied Locations
Tent
SUNDAY
July 7
6:45am – 8:45am
7:15am
8:00am – 1:00pm
8:30am – 10:00am
9:00am
9:00am – 9:20am
9:30am – 10:45am
L'hitraot -- SEE YOU IN 2015!!!
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Logistics A - Z
ALEPH Kallah 2013
Logistics
A
ACCOMMODATIONS
Check Out Time
Check Out is Sunday, July 7th at 12:00pm
(noon). So that Franklin Pierce University can
prepare rooms for the ALEPH Smicha week
which begins on the day of your departure, we
ask that if you are living in Lakeview
Apartments, that you plan to be packed up by
10:00am (so Houskeeping can turn over the
rooms). There will be University staff on site
to assist you with the check-out process.
Checkout process:
 Please bring your keys and linens
(sheets, towels, pillow, and blanket) to
Alumni Lounge (where you
registered).
 When everything has been returned,
you will be given the envelope with
the security deposit you left when you
checked in.
 If anything is missing (key, pillows,
blankets, towels, sheets, etc.) your key
deposit will be forfeited.
Kitchen Facilities In many dorms there are
refrigerators in common areas (in addition to
the main dining hall). Please label any food
you want to store in the refrigerator and be
considerate of others.
Laundry & Linens Your linens are yours for
the week. Please care for them accordingly.
Laundry facilities are located in each of the
residence halls and use of the washers and
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dryers is free of charge. You must supply your
own detergent (sold in the shuk).
AFTERNOON, EVENING & LATE NIGHT EVENTS
Affinity Groups provide a way to meet people
with similar concerns or life situations. Affinity
groups will meet Monday through Thursday
evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 7:50 p.m. For
specific room assignments, see Table of
Contents for page number.
Choirs. This year at Kallah we have abundant
opportunity to sing your heart out! Choose
between, or experience all of these musical
opportunities (& perform too!):
A cappella Choir Come together for a
week of a cappella singing. The choir is the
ideal community that allows the individual
to discover their own most beautiful voice
and hold its own while listening to and
helping others, recognizing that the whole
sounds only as good as the individual
parts. The richness, depth
and complexities of harmonies elucidate
the richness, depth and complexity of
texts and give them new meaning. Our
songs will affirm our commitment to
social justice as well as celebrate life cycle
rituals that mark the common
and uncommon events of our lives. Choir
Director Cantor Linda Hirschhorn.
Rehearsals will be daily after dinner in
Cheney Hall.
Intergenerational Choir Join the fun as
grandparents, parents and kids sing
together. Choir Director Fran Avni
Rehearsals will be daily after lunch (see
schedule) in Cheney Hall.
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Films at Kallah Each year we are thrilled to
present films of distinction. Please see the
descriptions in the film section, and the
listings on each day’s schedule, for more
details.
Announcements
Announcements will be posted near the dining
room entrance. To conserve resources, there will
be no daily newsletter.
ATM
You can find an ATM on campus in the Glass Foyer
of the Campus Center, across from the
Information Desk.
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Class Changes Your name tag also includes your
morning and afternoon classes. For class changes,
go to the Guest Relations Desk in the Campus
Center near the Dining Room during Guest
Relations hours. Please note that each teacher has
indicated an “Add Policy” and respect their
wishes.
Commuters You are welcome to arrive at Franklin
Pierce for morning davennen. Remember that
breakfast, lunch and dinner are included in your
program fees.
Customs/Minhag
Clean Up After Yourself We’re guests of
Franklin Pierce University. Be sure to clean up
after yourself. This includes “bussing” your
own tray in the dining hall after you’ve
finished eating, and taking all your “stuff” out
of class meeting rooms when finished with the
space.
G~d Language The Jewish people, in our long
and rich history, have sought for ways to
understand, relate to and address The One
with which we are all a part. Each generation,
each community has found ways to serve its
needs. We continue that process today as we
strengthen our connection to the earlier
generations whether standing at Mount Sinai,
entering Canaan, or living wherever
galut/diaspora has carried them.
Over the past 3000 years, we have had many
ways of addressing G~d, the Source of the
Universe, with each name focusing on a
particular aspect of the divine masculine.
“Adonai” (in Hebrew) or “My Lord” (in
English), are the historical conventions used in
many prayer books, but these represent only
one way of experiencing our connection to
G~d.
In Jewish Renewal contexts, feminist ritualists
have plumbed the tradition for Hebrew and
English female names for the Divine. Others
opt for gender neutral strategies, such as “The
One” or “The Source of All.
Whatever your inclination or belief, we
encourage you to to stay open to experience
G~d in all aspects, and to experiment with G~d
language that works for you.
Shabbat Shabbat is a time for celebration,
learning and sharing with other people in a
relaxed and informal atmosphere. It is a
blessing to savor Shabbat in community.
We also realize that people have different
understandings of how Shabbat should be
observed. The norms we have outlined below
allow for varying Shabbat practices, while
setting some guidelines in order to enable
each individual to feel comfortable. When one
is in public community space, we would
appreciate your sensitivity to the needs of
other people and your cooperation in
observing these norms.
 We do not conduct Kallah business
Shabbat – eg., registration, payment of
bills, etc.
 Please refrain from smoking in all public
areas.
 Musical instruments and microphones
may be used.
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Tape recorders may be used if all present
are aware of their use and prior consent
has been obtained.
 We do not have a norm in place for
photography or electronic device use
when in public spaces. We invite you to
please be aware of your community, and if
you ‘choose to use’ on Shabbos, either
inquire of your neighbors, or, should
someone complain, be prepared to move
to a private space to complete your task.
Please feel free to observe Shabbat as you
choose in the private space of your own room.
Please see the Shabbat section of this booklet
(WHITE) for more information about this
glorious time!
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Shin (shhhhh) Buttons Each of us received a
button at Registration, designed with the
Hebrew letter shin, to remind each other that
a “shhh…” is appropriate at certain times. A
person wearing the button is asking others to
honor his or her sacred, silent space. This
simply means, “Let’s talk some other time.”
Being quiet does not necessarily mean being
sad or unsociable. Silence for a period of time
can be a peaceful and rejuvenating
experience.
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Dining Room
The Dining Room is a place of very high energy
because this is where EVERYONE comes together
for our nourishment from G~d. When hundreds of
spiritual souls are all in one place at the same
time, it can be quite overwhelming. It is a good
idea to close your eyes and take a few deep
breaths when you sit down to eat.
Meals will be served during the following hours:
Breakfast: 6:45 – 8:45
Lunch: 11:30 – 1:30
Dinner: (except Friday night) 5:30 – 7:30
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Dining Room Liaison If you need something
(coffee run out?) or are feeling lost during
the first couple of meals, look for someone
with a bright orange t-shirt for help. They
are the liaisons with the kitchen staff. Please
see them rather than approaching kitchen
staff directly with requests. This year Chaim
Leib (Howie) Schneider serves as your Dining
Room Liaison along with the young men and
women of the Kesher program.
Handwashing. We have set up a Netilat
Yadayim/Motzi (hand washing) station in
the Dining Room. This is intended as an
opportunity to do the ritual of handwashing, make a blessing on the bread, and
center oneself before we begin the meal.
Kashrut ALEPH recognizes the importance
of Kashrut as part of our religious and
cultural heritage. The Kashrut of the Dining
facilities is under supervision of our
Mashgiach (Kashrut Supervisors), Rabbi
Dennis Beck-Berman and Rabbi David
Seidenberg. All utensils ovens and facilities
of the dining hall have been kashered by
members of our community under their
supervision. All products used have been
approved by them. All meals are parve dairy
/ vegetarian; there will also be fish. No one
may bring food into the dining area without
clearing it with Rabbi Dennis Beck-Berman
or David Seidenberg. All questions about the
specifics of kashrut should be directed to
them. The Dining Room Liasons will be
clearly visible (in bright orange shirts) and
can direct you to them.
Silent Dining will be observed an area
designated with a sign (behind the glass in
the long and narrow dining room). Please
respect silence if you eat there.
Bentsching / Blessing After Meals We have
Birkat Hamazon (Blessing after the meal)
benschers on the tables. The sheet has a
number of different styles of blessing.
Seating for Meals We have many people
registered for the Kallah. Please allow
families with children, people setting up the
evening programs and others who may have
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special needs to pass through the line.
Though you may be hungry, please do your
best to maintain a spirit of ease and
generosity while waiting in line.
Kid’s Kallah breaks for lunch. Parents are
responsible for their own children at that
time. We have found that the younger
children need a little time with their parents
in the middle of the day. Older children may
eat with their peers; but parents, please
know that you are responsible to make sure
they clean up after themselves!!!
Please DO NOT REMOVE any dishes, glasses
or silverware from the Dining Room! They
are extremely limited and have just enough
for our group. If you take them out we will
run out!!!!
E
Emergencies
First Aid We have stocked some very basic
first aid supplies in the office, such as Tylenol,
Band-Aids, peroxide, tweezers, a strip
thermometer and the like. You are welcome
to use them when necessary (parents must
administer first aid to their children – the
office staff cannot be responsible for this).
We also have a Doc On Call. Please see Guest
Relations if you have a serious medical need.
Serious Injury or Emergency Care The nearest
hospital is
Monadnock
Community
Hospital. The
number to call in
an emergency is the hospital’s main
switchboard, (603) 924-7191. To call an
Ambulance, (603) 924-8090.
Ethics Advocates ALEPH is grateful to have Charles
Kaplan ([email protected]) and Sherril Gilbert
([email protected]) as Ethics Advocates.
They are available to address ethics concerns and
complaints of a serious nature. Charles’s cell
phone is: 778 231 3949. Sherril’s is: 514-3868874. Because both are from Canada, their cell
phone will accept texts only. Please see
attachment A at the end of this section for more
info. For indentification purposes, their photos
are below:
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Golf Carts Golf Carts & Vans will be available for
the use of our guests during transition times
between programs and meals. Please be aware
that these carts are primarily intended for those
unable to get around without help. If you are
already seated on a cart, and someone with a
clear need is waiting, please do the right thing and
give up your seat. If you need to schedule a ride
ahead of time, please let us know at the Guest
Relations table.
Guest Relations Desk Have a question? Need
some help? Our Guest Relations Desk is here to
serve you. We are located in the Campus Center
(near the Dining Room). Please go there for any
questions or needs relating to anything about your
retreat experience.
Hours
Monday
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Tues – Thurs
8:00am – 11:30am
12:00pm – 3:30pm
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Friday
8:00am – 11:30am
12:00pm – 3:30pm
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Lost and Found Please bring all found items and
seek all lost items in the Kallah Office. If, upon
your return home, you find that you have left
something behind, please get in touch with our
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Lost and Found coordinator: Jennifer Coburn. You
will need to pay for any shipping, if necessary. (At
previous Kallot, as much as 70 pounds of clothing
and other items were left behind.) Please take
care to gather all of your things as it is very time
consuming to deal with returning lost and found
items after the Kallah. At some point after Kallah
we will donate unclaimed lost items. If you lose
keys or other valuables, see Guest Relations.
Lunch & Learn Got a voracious appetite for
learning??? Kallah is debuting our new “Lunch &
Learn” – an opportunity to get your teeth into
some interesting area for discussion! Lunch &
Learn will take place in the large dining room to
the left (near outside door).
Thursday 12:30 – 1:30 EcoJudaism Lunch &
Learn How can mitzvot and a Torah
perspective help us respond responsibly to the
eco-crises of our time? What is the growing
edge of a "kashrut", a true sense of
appropriate consumption? Come add to our
questions and insights at this table talk with
Rabbi Andrea.
Andrea Cohen-Kiener is a
rabbi, farmer and story
teller. She is in residence at
the Rochester Folk Art
Guild in rural NY. Andrea is
dedicated to peaceful
communication
technologies, living simply
and singing with others. She is the spiritual
leader of Congregation P'nai Or in central CT.
Saturday 12:30 – 1:30 Elat Chayyim: what
Was, Is, and Will Be A facilitated discussion
about the history and future of Elat Chayyim
Center for Jewish Spirituality…How Renewal is
renewing individuals, families, and
communities at Hazon's Isabella Freedman
Jewish Retreat Center.
Adam 'Segulah' Sher serves as Hazon's
Director of Transformative Experiences,
headquartered at Isabella Freedman Jewish
Retreat Center in Falls Village, CT. Elat
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Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality, a
program of Hazon at Isabella Freedman, is a
particular focus of his work and is very close to
his heart.
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Meditation/Quiet Space In the midst of the high
energy, you may want some time for meditation
and quiet. Please feel free to utilize our
meditation room off Monadnock Lounge in the
Campus Center. It will be open daily from 7am –
10pm.
Music Practice Rooms If you need a place to
prepare or practice something musical Cheney is
your place. There are 4 soundproof rooms, each
with a piano that will be open for your use from
8:00AM – 10:00PM.
P
Parking Parking on campus does NOT require a
permit. Be sure NOT to park in reserved spots –
you will be towed.
PLACES
ALEPH Kallah Office The ALEPH Kallah Office is
located in the Art Gallery in Peterson Hall.
Please see the Guest Relations Desk lobby
BEFORE coming to the Office. They will be
equipped to handle most needs. The office
phone number on campus is 267-567-2486.
ALEPH Kallah Office Hours
Monday
noon — 3:15pm
Tues-Thurs 8:30am — 5:30pm
Friday
8:30am — 4:00pm (sharp!)
Shabbat
closed
Sunday
8:00am — 9:15am
11:00am – 1:00pm
To mainstream the efficiency and the sanity of
our staff, all Kallah business will be conducted
exclusively during the posted office hours.
Please, do not approach us about business at
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meals. These are times that we just need to
have “normal” conversations with no work
related questions. We appreciate your
consideration. Thank you.
Bookstore/Gift Shop/Shuk
Come browse our awesome collection of
Judaic arts and books, gathered from
hundreds of musicians, artists and authors.
We have a “ship don’t shlep” option so you
can travel light! The Bookstore/Giftshop/Shuk
is located in Spagnuolo Hall in the Campus
Center next to the Dining Room.
HOURS
Monday
Noon to 11pm
Tuesday
8am-11pm
Wednesday 8am-11pm
Thursday
8am-11pm
Friday
8am-4:30pm
Saturday after Havdalah - midnight
Sunday
8am - 1pm
Meet the Artist &
Book Signing
Reception at the
bookstore on Tuesday,
July 2, 6:45-8pm.
Refreshments
provided. Bookstore is located in Spagnuolo Hall in
the Campus Center above the Dining Room.
Healing Center Our Healing Centers offers
massage, acupuncture, spiritual direction, and
other healing modalities to enhance your
retreat experience. It is located in Granite
Hall. You can view detailed descriptions, bios,
and reserve your appointments in the
Bookstore.
Post Office - There is a post office located in
Campus Center across from the Information
Desk.
Recreation and Fitness Center - Kallah
participants are welcome to use the University’s
facilities at the following times:
Logistics A - Z
Lake: A lifeguard will be present from 1pm-7pm,
daily. All other swimming is at the swimmers
risk. Absolutely no swimming after dusk.
Fitness Center: Due to the severe winter storms,
the Fitness Center in the Bubble is no longer
operational. They have, as a result, ordered new
fitness equipment for the Northwoods Lounge (in
the Northwoods Dorm). Hours of operation are:
6:30AM – 10PM. (At the time of this writing, the
new equipment has not arrived yet, but we’re
hoping…..)
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Registration
Attendee Lists Please verify your address,
phone number and E-mail information on the
attendance list by Friday afternoon at Guest
Relations if you did not do it when you
registered. The office will process all
corrections after Kallah and email it to
attendees.
Badges Please wear your name badge all
week. Colored stickers for badges are
available at the Registration table.
 Red
First time Kallah participant
(make sure to say hello!)
 Green Teachers
 Blue
ALEPH Board Members
 Yellow Seeking one’s basherte
(relationship, soulmate,
partner)
 Black In mourning
Commuters remember that breakfast, lunch
and dinner ARE included in your program fees.
The Library on campus has several
comfortable and cool areas to “lounge”, so
feel free to use it to read a book or catch a
catnap.
Registration for Shabbat Guests All guests
joining us for Shabbat must arrive at Peterson
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Hall between 1:00pm and 4:00pm on Friday in
order to complete all registration transactions
before 5:00pm. (Shabbat guests with children
should arrive in the morning by 8:45am so
they can be integrated into the Shabbat
program). The Office will close at 4:00pm
SHARP – no exceptions! If you are expecting
guests and know that they will not arrive on
time, please come to the Office early to obtain
room keys and name tags for them.
Rindge Area Restaurants, trails and other things
to do in the local area are on page 16.
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Silent Auction ALEPH’s Silent Auction is a fun
way to access the incredible gifts of our
community while supporting ALEPH's
programs. Bid on Spiritual Direction or
Astrology sessions, Hebrew or Shofar
tutorials, a scholar-in-residence Shabbaton for
your community - and special items from Reb
Zalman's prayer room! The offerings will be
posted on the walls surrounding the ramp to
the Dining Room. Bid early and bid often!
Bidding ends Friday at the end of lunch - 1:30
sharp!
Spirit Buddy Program The Kabbalists of S’fat
began their prayer with the following intention:
“For the sake of the union of The Blessed Holy One
with The Sheckhina, I stand here, ready to take
upon myself the mitzvah, ‘You shall love your
fellow human being as yourself,’ and by this merit
may I open my mouth.”
Our practice of Spirit Buddies is the concrete
embodiment of this abstract intention. The daily
practice helps to keep us from the dangers of
inflation, isolation, delusion, and greediness. We
check in with our own souls in the presence of a
discerning friend. Working with Spirit Buddies
requires us to practice “presence.” This requires
letting go of judgment, and of the need to “fix”
our partner or to offer solutions. We search
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beneath the layers of personality and invite the
pure soul/essence of our partner to be revealed.
Together, we create the safe and sacred space in
which healing, self-realization and transformation
can occur.
During orientation Rabbi Shefa Gold will help us all
understand the kavanah (intention) and keva
(form) of this process.
Sunday Box Lunch (post Kallah) If you would like a
box lunch for Sunday afternoon (7/7), you may
purchase one at the Guest Relations desk before
noon on Wednesday, July 3.
Sunday shuttles to the Airport after Kallah – We
still have seats available on the two shuttles to
Manchester Airport on Sunday, July 7. They will
leave Franklin Pierce at 11:30 am and 2:00pm.
Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at Guest
Relations.
T-Shirts Be sure to stop by the Bookstore and
check out our beautiful 2013 t-shirts ….they
feature artwork donated by our very own Jackie
Olenick. We are very grateful to her for sharing
her gifts with us! We have kids’ sizes S, M, & L and
adults’ S, M, L, & XL. (Hurry! Quantities are
limited.)
Tikkun Olam Inspired by Meryl Joblin and the film
“Paper Clips,” we will create a "Peace Chain"
together out of fabric the way that children
create chains out of construction paper. This
Peace Chain will symbolically spiritually connect all
humanity and inspire renewal of hope, peace,
vision and love. Each person will write a prayer or
blessing on a piece of fabric that is then attached
to create a chain of fabrics. Each link will be sewn
together with kavannah to manifest the power of
the prayers written. It will be displayed in the
main Tent, and we’ll kvell as a community as we
see the chain increase day by day. Everyone is
invited to add to the chain!
In addition, there will be a separate sign-up sheet
where participants can choose to contribute from
a penny to dollars for each link of the chain. The
money will in part be used to support the Boston
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Logistics A - Z
One Fund (to assist victims and families affected
by the tragic events at the Boston Marathon.) It
will also support Ugandan Abayudaya Jewish
orphans which is also a focus of Kids Kallah.
Please join us! All ages are encouraged to
participate. Stop by Marcucella anytime after
lunch between 1-3, Tuesday , Wednesday, and
Thursday.
Wireless Internet Access (WIFI) For those who still
need to be plugged in, we do have wireless
internet access. Open your network connections
and join the FP-Guest Network. You will need to
accept the terms of the acceptable use policy that
appears in your browser. Also, the Computer Lab
in the DiPeitro Library will be open during normal
library hours.
Program Evaluations We want very much to
continue to improve and to grow, but we need
your help. Please fill out the class evaluations on
the last day. ALSO…on the last page of this section
is a place for you to make notes about what you
felt was best about the week and what could use
some improvement. Please use that space
throughout the week and then leave it in the
Kallah office, or you could mail or email the
comments to us. Your feedback is much
appreciated.
HAVE AN INCREDIBLE WEEK!!!!!
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Healing Center
Welcome to ALEPH Kallah’s Healing Center!
We are here to tend to the body, mind and spirit.
Whether you choose a session for massage
therapy after a long trek or someone to guide &
accompany you on a quest for spiritual guidance,
the sessions will deepen your Kallah experience.
Don't miss out on the opportunity to try
something new!
Like you, the staff is a group of unique individuals
who have come to learn and live in community.
Our practitioners are seasoned at their craft and
experts in their field. Please browse through their
bios to choose those who will best suit your
need(s). For information, to make an appointment
or process a payment, please visit the Kallah
Bookstore.
Body Training
Program and is on
the faculty at the Laban Institute of Movement
Studies at the University of Maryland. Simona
works with bodywork and movement for self
awareness, expression and healing. She
maintains a private practice in Charlottesville,
Virginia.
Deborah
Baker, L.M.T.
Massage Therapy
Dee combines traditional swedish massage, deep
tissue techniques and trigger point therapy to
customize a massage for each client. A brief
intake form begins the discussion of the clients'
issues and goals and periodic feedback during the
massage assures that the treatment matches the
client's needs and expectations.
Dee is a graduate of the National
Massage Therapy Instiutue,
Lynda Danzig, Lic. Ac., L.M.T.
Deborah continues her education
Healing Center Coordinator
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at frequent workshops and
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seminars, as well as by reading
journals and keeping up with
Practitioner Biographies
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Simona Aronow, MEd., ADTR, NCTMB,
our ALEPH Kallah
NCC, CMA
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Simona has over 35 years experience as a
Helena
offers Synergistic Massage
Hu Shemecha, one of
practicing massage therapist, movement
which uses the wisdom of Asian
the names of G-d that
therapist and educator. She has taught
medicine combined with western
is used for healing.
Deep Tissue massage at the Virginia
therapeutic techniques to provide
School of Massage for 10 years, trained
healing beyond the physical body.
massage therapists at the Greenbriar and
This session is an integration of
Homestead Spas and in many other
soothing strokes with use of oil and
venues. Her massage style is eclectic and
acupreassure to balance body-mind and spirit
includes Swedish Massage and energy work. As a
allowing blocked energy to transform into more
Dance/Movement Therapist she currently focuses
useable form. Chi Nei Tsang is internal organ chi
on Authentic Movement, Embodied Spirituality
massage. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
and Laban Movement Analysis. She has recently
the naval center maintains a chi vibration
taught at Isabella Freedman, the National Havurah
connected with each internal organ. During the
Institute and the Embodying Spirit, Enspiriting
Lynda
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soul's development the naval center was the focal
point for transmission of nutrition to all the
internal organs as well as then point form which
the soul was able to release waste and toxicity for
their growth processes. The organs provide
spiritual, emotional as well as physical functions.
Thus, the naval center holds the essence of our
well being. Chi Nei Tsang restores harmony and
well being to the body and soul. Sleep Well, Feel
Better is a session to verbally guided instruction
employing gentle, easy physical movements that
calm the mind, relax the body and provide deeper,
more restful sleep. These movements can be used
as a bedtime practice.
Bogart, Lic. Ac.
Acupuncturist and Herbalist
Hendi earned her BA in psychology for Boston
University and MA in Oriental Medicine, including
Chinese and Japanese acupuncture and Chinese
herbs. She has also earned her degree in
Aromatherapy and Acutonics. Acutonics utilizes
tuning forks to stimulate acupuncture points for
children and others not comfortable with needles.
Hendi treats holistically, taking into account
spiritual and emotional factors. The first stage of
treatment usually addresses the general
constitution and the second stage addresses the
particular symptoms presented. Often symptoms
are ameliorated or resolved from the relaxation
induced by the treatment. She states "It is good to
have acupuncture treatments this week when we
want to be as receptive as we can to all the deep
teaching here at the ALEPH Kallah. When our
bodies, minds and emotions are more at peace, it
gives us more opportunity to engage with the
learning and to allow for transformation.
Acupuncture treats a whole gamut of conditions
such as headaches, PMS symptoms, digestive
ailments, menopausal symptoms, allergies,
backaches…. I look forward to be of service to
enable you to be more easily enriched by the
experience at the Kallah."
Hendi
Melanie
Jones
Healing Center
Melanie is well versed in intuitive healing which
combines Reiki, guided breath, hand and foot
massage and sound healing. She is certified as a
yoga instructor with a focus on students who are
people of size, physically challenged and with
disabilities. Weaved into her treatments is her
love for music and working with the ability to heal
employing sound.
Keith W.
Kale, D.O., P.O.
Osteopathic Manipulation/Craniosacral Therapy
Dr. Kale is an osteopathic physician board certified
in Osteopathic Manipulation. He provides
craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, strain
counter strain and articulatory techniques. He
sees patients with musculoskeletal pain that are
resistant to massage therapy, chiropractic,
physical therapy and conventional allopathic
treatment.
Deborah-Miriam
Leff
Akashic record clearing and Emotional Freedom
Techniques
Deborah-Miriam addresses spiritual, emotional
and physical needs at a deep level using Akashic
record clearing and Emotional Freedom
Techniques. By releasing blocks and negative
energy held in the body and subconscious mind,
anxiety, stress and blame diminish then pain and
illness can be transformed. This allows you to
experience lightness and freedom to be your
highest divine self. Originally from NYC
metropolitan area, Deborah-Miriam now lives in
the tree-covered mountains of Southern Oregon,
more closely attuned to the earth and committed
to following the guidance of Spirit. She was
trained to do akashic record clearing and
emotional freedom techniques in 2004-05. She
studied directly with Robert Detzler (z''"l) and
Gary Craig. Deborah-Miriam has honed her
intuitive skills, working one-on-one and leading
group clearings in 5 countries via teleconference.
Among her clients are lay persons,
transformational coaches, healers, beginning and
advanced spiritual seekers.
Reiki, guided breath work, sound healing
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Mimi Nelson
Oliver, L.M.T., L.S.W.
Massage Therapy, Biodynamic CranioSacral
Therapy, Polarity
Mimi Nelson Oliver is lover of life, spirit, and the
brilliance of our inherent health. She has worked
with babies, children, teens and adults of all
ages in her integrative healing arts practice for
several decades. Initially trained as a a clinical
social worker at Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler
School of Social Work, Mimi then went on to
discover and revel in holistic healing modalities.
She practices biodynamic craniosacral therapy
which is guided by the life force and fluid tides
within the body. Mimi is also a polarity and
massage therapist and educator. She is both in
private practice and a staff psychotherapist at
Mass General's Revere Health Care Center where,
in addition to traditional psychotherapy with all
ages, Mimi provides MIndBody Resiliency groups;
and she has trained and is affiliated with the
Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine.
Mimi finds inspiration from her spiritual practices
including Jewish chant, meditation, prayer and
embodied movement, yoga, neurobiology,
prenatal birth and attachment therapy, sacred
geometry, and mysticism, which are all infused in
what she does and who she is.
Eva
Neuhaus
Life Coach
Eva works with healers, creative folks and
innovators who feel they're holding back and want
to unleash their power. She offers intuitive
counseling and life coaching on the bodyworkers
table, in a traditional therapy setup, and in
walking sessions. In bodywork sessions, I
integrate light touch and energy work to support
you in unwinding old patterns held in the body
mind. During counseling/coaching sessions, she
draws her own intuition as well as the clients, to
identify the root of whatever challenges you're
facing. Seeing these patterns clearly enables you
to work with them so you can move forward. Eva
received a B.A. in Music from Weslyn University
and M.A. in Counseling Psychology with a
concentration in Somatics from CIIS. I came to the
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healing arts through a background in dance and
music. The sessions are a creative process in
which she draws on years of training in energy
medicine and massage therapy.
Sandy
Pond, L. M. T.
Massage Therapy
Sandy states, "Massage always starts with your
specific needs, be it deep relaxation or a specific
issue. My experience as a multi-disiplined artist
working in fine sold to clay, to steel has allowed
me to bring a unique sensitivity to the massage
table. I love teaching clients and offer classes in
nutrition to yoga." Modalities offered are:
Raindrop therapy which utilizes 10 different
essential oils specifically massaged along the
spine, Cranio Release Technique, Empyrean
Massage which is Sandy's signature style
incorporating gentle stretches, myofacial release
techniques providing relaxation and stress relief,
scar treatments.
Rosensweet, L.M.T., C.S.T.
Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy
Craniosacral therapy is a gentle, profoundly
relaxing bodywork that involves tuning into the
flow of cerebrospinal fluid and the body's natural
rhythms to balance the nervous system and to
stimulate self healing. stress related conditions
often improve including anxiety, nervousness,
insomnia, depression, headaches and breathing
difficulties. CST has been used effectively for
musculoskeletal conditions, fibromyalgia and
more. What can you expect from a session? Bery
deep relaxation is the first effect of a biodynamic
session. It balances the brain. Secondly, you are
able to let go of your symptoms slowly and in
many cases actually feel the health in your whole
body as happiness or joy. Thirdly, you get more
mental and physical clarity from the session. This
allows you to make better choices about how to
live and how to heal. CST is performed on a person
fully clothed. For 35 years Sarah has been working
in mind/body therapies. A licensed massage
therapist for 26 years her passion for the past 10
has been Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. Sarah
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is known for her clients experiencing emotional
and physical release, well-being and a reference
point for a new beginning.
Jessica
Schwartz
Spiritual Medical Intuitive
Jessica channels direct communication from the
spirit guides and passed loved ones, from the One
Source. She accesses your essence in this and in
past lives, addresses concerns and answers
questions to serve and heal you for your highest
and best good. Using Kabbalistic wisdom (20 plus
years student) and chakra knowledge, Jessica
illuminates fresh perspectives, reveals penetrating
insight, provides pragmatic, restorative
suggestions and offers comforting confirmations
that lead to clarity, relief, transformation and
optimal well-being. Jessica Schwartz, a MedicalSpiritual Intuitive, offers channeled spiritual
counseling and energy work to heal the bodies
and souls of an international clientele (in person,
or by Skype or phone). Clients say: "a true
miracle;" "changed my life forever;" "remarkable
perceptions;" "magical;" "trust completely;" "soul
exploration;" and "extraordinary." In addition to
22 years in her Boston-area private practice,
Jessica lectured at Brandeis University on Spiritual
Healing, and presented lectures and workshops in
Israel, Europe and the U.S. She studies and has
taught Kabbalah with Rabbi Dr. Meir Sendor, an
Orthodox rabbi, for more than 20 years. Please go
to jessicaschwartz.com for more information and
to view the testimonial page. Jessica's 5
meditation albums are on iTunes, CDBaby,
Amazon and at her website. Also, Jessica is a
professional singer with an upcoming CD,
additionally, her writing has been published
internationally.
Healing Center
acupuncture, but without needles. Healing Touch
was created by nurses and is practiced in many
hospitals around the country. Daphne also
practices a powerful form of trauma release work
called Somatic Experiencing. Developed by
psychologist Peter Levine, Somatic Experiencing is
a very careful and gentle technique for safely
discharging the high-voltage energy of trauma.
Trauma is defined as any event that shocks and
overwhelms the nervous system. Research has
shown that trauma is actually stored in our body
until we find a way to actively release it.
Using one or both of these techniques, Daphne
helps clients alleviate chronic pain conditions:
reduce anxiety and increase the body's relaxation
response; recover from painful childhood
accidents; strengthen the body's immune system;
prepare or recover from surgery; heal trauma
from car accidents, whiplash, and falls and more.
White, CHPT, SEP
Healing Touch and Somatic Experiencing
Daphne White is a Certified Healing Touch
Practitioner with additional training in trauma
release work. Healing Touch is a form of energy
medicine that stimulates your body's own
"spontaneous" healing response: it's like
Daphne
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Rindge, NH Local Area
The University is in a rural area….that said, we are close to some shopping for basics, a few restaurants and some
amazing places to hike (see below):
Shopping
Restaurants (closer)
Walmart
750 U.S. 202, Rindge
J.P. Stephen's Restaurant &
Tavern (dining)
377 U.S. 202 Rindge
Hannaford Supermarket &
Pharmacy
New Hampshire Liquor &
Wine Outlet
Tracie's Community
Farmstand
Jaffrey Rd, Fitzwilliam
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Woodbound Inn
(tavern/dining)
247 Woodbound Road Rindge
Pizza Haven
1343 New Hampshire 119,
Rindge
Kimball Farm (ice cream,
restaurant, country store) 158
Turnpike Road (Rt. 124) Jaffrey
Better Restaurants
(Peterborough – 20” drive)
Nature's Green Grocer Café
374 Union St,
Pearl Restaurant (Asian)
One Jaffrey Rd. (Rte. 202)
Nonie's Restaurant & Bakery
28 Grove St
Harlow's Pub
3 School Street
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Nature
Monadnock State Park (116 Poole Rd, Jaffrey) – 3,165-ft. Mt. Monadnock was designated a national
nature landmark in 1987. There are 40 miles of maintained foot trails, many of which lead to the bare
rock summit through unique alpine vegetation.
Miller State Park (Temple, NH) -- Located on the 2,290 foot summit -- Miller is the oldest state park in
New Hampshire. A winding 1.3 Mile paved road leading to the scenic summit is open for visitors. Three
main hiking trails ascend Pack Monadnock to the summit. On a clear day view’s reach to Mount
Washington, the skyscrapers of Boston and the Vermont Hills.
Rhododendron State Park (Fitzwilliam, NH) -- 494 acres of ancient woodlands are crowded with a
unique stand of Rhododendrons, the largest and most vigorous grove, with bushes as high as twenty
feet, walking paths, picnic grounds, views of Mt. Monadnock and the region.
Franklin Pierce College has many trails.
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Trail Heads and Descriptions
Gates Farm Trail (Red Trail): This 2.5 mi trail can be accessed via a trailhead on Mountain Rd. Take a
right out of the Sodexho Field parking lot and you will see the trailhead on your left about 20 ft up
Mountain Rd. The trail is marked by red arrows. The south side of the trail was previously used as farm
land while the north side runs along a black spruce swamp and then through the forested hills.
Place Trail: This 1.5mi trail is marked by red arrows and crosses through the Gates Farm Trail. The trail
can be accessed via Gates Farm Trail or by the road to the water tower where the trail will be on your
right. Signs along the trail created by students will guide you through the forest’s history.
Old Kimball Trail (Blue Trail): Access this 1.5 mi loop from the Sodexho Field parking lot by following the
road that runs behind Sodexho Field to the Rugby Field. Trail Head will be on your right in the corner of
the Rugby Field. Trail is marked with blue arrows. The north section runs along the hilltops until you
meet a dirt road (Old Kimball Rd.). Turn right and walk about 30 ft until you find a right turn marked by
the blue arrows. Continue along the south section which runs along a wetland behind Lakeview. The
loop takes you back to the Rugby field. WARNING: Be careful to follow the circular blue arrows as there
are also old ski trails and logging trails not included in this map.
Pond Trail: Access to this 0.25 mi trail is located along the north shore of Pearly Pond, just down the hill
from Peterson Hall, near the Medicine Wheel. Created as a class project, this trail offers a quiet place to
enjoy the pond
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Acknowledgements
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A HUGE thank you to the members of the Planning Committee for their creativity, energy, time and
commitment to the success of the Kallah. They have worked tirelessly for many months on phone and
email with others from all across the country. They are the lifeblood and backbone of your experience
this week.
POSITION
NAME
Elder/Disability Advocate
GLBT Advocate
Guest Relations AM 8– 11:30 (M-F)
Guest Relations PM 12-3:30 (M-F)
Guest Relations PM 7-10 (M-Th, Sa)
Davvening
Dining Room Liaison
Evening Snack
General Area Liaison
Giftshop- Book Orders
Graphics – Brochure
Healing Center
Kesher Coordinator
Publicity
Registration Coordinators
Shabbat
Tikkun Olam
Transportation Cdtr (Campus)
STAFF
Evening/Shabbat Childcare
Productions
Field Manager
Gift Shop- Artists Liaison
Giftshop General manager
Giftshop PM mgr
Kids Program Coordinator
Mashgiach
Office Manager/Registration
Coordinator/Assistant Coordinator
Pre-Bnai Mitzvah Program
Teacher Liaison/Support
Tech Managers
Teen Program (Bahira)
Toddler Program
Workstudy
Sheryl Adler Eldridge
Jonathan Baron
Shelley Newman
Andi Waisman
Deb Hall
Mark Novak
Howie (Chaim) Scnneider
Marina Bers
R. Yafa Chase
Ashira Katz Feiwell
Hal Aqua
Lynda Danzig
Sarah Rohr
Susan Raskin Abrams, Laura Segel, Martin
Levson, Marina Bers
Latifa & Peter Kropf
Ashira Katz Feiwell, Jody Seltzer
Laura Shakun
Linda Zweig
Shira Lion, Elana Steinberg
Deb Barsel
Marcia Brooks
Gayle Gale
Eliezer Froehlich
Ahouva & Albert Steinhaus
Joanie Levine
Dennis Beck Berman, David Seidenberg
Sheri Levson
Rachel Harris, Skye Pelicrow
Renee Brachfield
Aaron Kessler, Daniel Wolner
Sarai Shapiro, Baruch Schwadron
Jessica Jobanek
Annie Klein
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We are SO grateful to Sarah Dorsey as well as her entire staff at Franklin Pierce University who have
afforded us exemplary care in planning of the event and in the preparation of the meals and our space.
We would also like to acknowledge all the people who contributed energy through work-exchange and
volunteering during this magical week. We really couldn’t have done it without you.
The ALEPH Kallah is a program of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, whose Board of Directors is Rabbi
Jeremy Parnes, Chair, Judith Dack, Vice Chair, Rabbi David Ingber, Janice Rubin, Vice Chair, David Evan
Markus, Evan Krame, Martin Potrop, Susan Raskin Abrams, Jade Netanya Ullmann, Rabbi Lori Klein,
Rabbi Malka Drucker, David Rafsky, Secretary, and Rabbi Greg Wolfe. We want to thank them for their
support in making the ALEPH Kallah possible.
We would also like to thank the ALEPH staff: Joe Laur, Executive Director; Rivkah Walton, Associate
Director; David Brown, Operations Manager; Lynda Simons, Bookkeepers; Ming Lu, Program Assistant;
Noach Dzmura, Marketing and Communications, R. Daniel Siegel, Director of Spiritual Resources; and
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Founder and Rabbinic Chair.
And ALEPH Project Directors: Sally Plone, Kallah Coordinator; Rabbi Diane Elliot , Embodying Spirit, Enspiriting Body, R. Victor and R. Nadya Gross, Co-Directors, Ruach Ha’Aretz; R. Shefa Gold and Rachmiel
O’Reagan, Co-Directors C-DEEP, R. Shaya Isenberg, Bahira Sugarman and Lynne Iser, Co-Directors, ALEPH
Sage-ing Project; R. Marcia Prager, Dean & Director, ALEPH Ordination Program; R. Shohama Wiener,
DMin, Rosh Hashpa'ah and Founding Director of Hashpa'ah Spiritual Direction Program; R. Nadya Gross,
MA, Director of Hashpa'ah Spiritual Direction Program; RP Shulamit Fagin, Director, Rabbinic Pastor
Program; Cantor Jack Kessler, Director, Cantorial Program; R. Daniel Seigel, Director, ALEPH Beit
Midrash; Rivkah Walton, Managing Director, ALEPH Beit Midrash and Director, Institute for
Contemporary Midrash.
We hope that this list is complete. Volunteers are the life blood of ALEPH; if we have inadvertently
overlooked your contribution, please accept our apologies and sincere gratitude.
Warmest blessings for a wonderfull week & beyond,
Sally Plone
2013 Kallah Coordinator
& the entire Kallah Staff & Planning Committee
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20 years of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal
We are proud to mark 2013 as ALEPH’s 20th year of leadership in the international community engaged
in the renewal of Judaism.
ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal infuses ancient Jewish wisdom with progressive consciousness.
ALEPH embraces a contemporary egalitarian Judaism as a profound spiritual practice and social
transformer, reaching beyond denominational boundaries and institutional structures.
ALEPH brings spiritual vitality and passion into the daily lives of Jews through programs that empower
leadership, build communities, and generate powerful experiences and practical resources.
Transformative Programs

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Jewish Renewal summer retreats
o The ALEPH Kallah International week-long biennial festival of joyous Jewish learning,
adult and children’s programming, music, art, drama with 500-800 participants.
o Ruach Ha’aretz Alternate year Jewish Renewal "encounter" retreat with creative
educational programming for adults and families for 150 participants.
Excursions to Israel
Training Clergy and Lay Leaders
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The ALEPH Ordination Program is a full-scale seminary utilizing intensive residential and
distance-learning modalities to train rabbis, cantors, rabbinic pastors (chaplains), and spiritual
directors.
Train dynamic prayer and chant leaders and lay communal leaders through award-winning
training programs, videoconference and residential retreats.
Outreach/ Resource Development
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Support renewal communities worldwide, and offer renewal resources to all Jewish
congregations and communities.
Enter into supportive coalition with Jewish environmental and peace organizations.
Publish the visionary works of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and other Jewish renewalinspired teachers – books, pamphlets, videos, educational curricula, siddurim, music, art.
Create Renewal curricula for Eco-Judaism projects that bring Jewish practice and halakhic
(traditional) wisdom to ecology and sustainability endeavors.
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Intergenerational Leadership and Mentoring Programs
o Sage-ing: empowering elders as mentors and wisdom-keepers.
o Weaving The Generations: Multigenerational connection, mentorship and development
of new forms of prayer and community for continuous Renewal in each generation..
Spiritual Technology Training Programs
o Kol Zimra : spiritual retreats and chant leader training.
o Institute for Contemporary Midrash: a resource service on midrash (Biblical
commentary) through the arts.
o The Beit Midrash: offering publications, prayer books, CDs, DVDs and TeleCourses.
o Embodying Sprit: Grounding Spiritual practiced in body awareness
o Secrets My Grandmother Told Me: A Wisdom School
Social Justice Initiatives
o Rodef Shalom School for Peace: empowering peace builders in American Jewish
communities.
o Jewish Energy Covenant: A partnership with COEJL
o Tikkun Olam: interfaith and Jewish community wide efforts to heal the planet, seek
peace and work for justice
ALEPH Board of Directors
Board Chair Rabbi Jeremy
Parnes is the spiritual leader of
the Beth Jacob Synagogue in
Regina Saskatchewan and
received smicha from the
Aleph Rabbinic Program in
2012. Jeremy previously spent
twenty years working in sales
management and training and
a decade in the area of
community development.
Judith Dack, Vice Chair creates
spiritual community using the
transformative powers of artmaking, chanting, meditating and
writing. She is on the faculty of
KolZimra, R. Shefa Gold's 2 year
Chant Leadership Training, an
ALEPH program. Judith is a
graduate of the first cohorts of
DLTI (Davvenen Leadership
Training Institute) and Kol Zimra.
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Rabbi David Ingber is the founder
and Spiritual Director of Romemu,
NYC's Jewish Renewal
Community. David studied in
Orthodox yeshivahs before
receiving ordination from Rabbi
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. David
is a sought-after national and
international leader and educator.
Janice Rubin, Vice Chair is a
Houston-based photographer,
musician and teacher. For over 30
years, she has served as a
cantorial soloist and Jewish
educator, facilitating classes in
meditation and Jewish music and
chant. She is a gradute of DLTI 4.
David Evan Markus has a
background in governance and
management. A liturgist, musician
and poet, David serves as Assc.
Spiritual Leader of Temple Beth-El
of City Island (NYC) while studying
in the ALEPH Ordination Program.
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Acknowledgements
Evan Krame brings to the ALEPH
Board 30 years of experiencce as
a lawyer and a Jewish community
leader, where he leads Shabbat
and High Holiday services, and
organizes and teaches adult
education programs.
Susan Raskin Abrams spent
almost her entire career as a
children's librarian, recently
retiring as Supervisor of Children's
Services at the Newton (MA) Free
Library. She has received many
professional honors. Susan has
been very active in B'nai Or of
Boston.
Jade Netanya Ullmann is the
Director of Development,
Membership and Outreach for
Romemu, the NYC Jewish
Renewal center. Jade is a 2012
NYC Pipeline Fellow, supporting
woman-led for-profit social
ventures.
Rabbi Lori Klein is a Board
Certified Chaplain who works
primarily with oncology patients
at a California Bay Area hospital.
Also a spiritual leader in Santa
Cruz, she was ordained in January
2006 through the ALEPH
Rabbinical Program. She also has
worked as an attorney and
community activist since 1985.
Ordained in 1998 from the
Academy for Jewish Religion, a
transdenominational seminary,
Malka Drucker is the founding
rabbi of HaMakom: The Place for
Passionate and Progressive
Judaism, in Santa Fe. Malka
Drucker is the author of 20 books.
David Rafsky, Secretary found
Jewish Renewal in 1994, and has
been involved and serving ever
since. He says. "Jewish Renewal
changed my life and opened my
heart up so much that I became
an activist again." Prior to joining
the ALEPH board, he was on the
board of Ruach Ha Aretz.
Rabbi Greg Wolfe is beginning his
18th year as the spiritual leader of
Congregation Bet Haverim in
Davis, CA. Greg received his
smichah from Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion (NY) in 1989 and has
served congregations in
Wisconsin and California.
Martin Potrop (photo and bio
unavailable)
Staff
Joe Laur, Executive Director; Rivkah Walton, Associate Director; David Brown, Operations Manager;
Lynda Simons, Bookkeeper; Ming Lu, Program Assistant; Noach Dzmura, Marketing and
Communications, R. Daniel Siegel, Director of Spiritual Resources; and Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi,
Founder and Rabbinic Chair.
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Classroom Assignments
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Classroom Assignments
Building &
Room
Morning Class
Afternoon Class
A16 -- Duhan Kaplan
A 11- Ginsburg
A 14 -- Barad/Feldman
A26 -- Milgram
A23 -- Kurzweil
A19 -- Goldblatt
A15 -- Broyde Sharone
A31 – Zaslow
A10 – Barth
A21 -- Wise Fairman
P15 – Barenblat
P20 – Glazer
P16 -- Beck-Berman
P14 – Arfa
P13 -- Simon/Klein
P 22 – Hale
P10 – Brenner
P28 – Schiller
P31 -- Wenig/Rubin/Lyons
P29 – Segel
Petrocelli Hall
101
102
108
112
114 a&b
115
116
117
220
315
Marcucella Hall
201
212
216
Other Rooms
Cheshire
Community
Room (3rd
Floor)
Lakeside Ctr
Cheney Hall
Monadnock
Lounge (Campus
Center)
Dance Studio
Pappas Hall
Alumni Lounge
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A20 – Golden
A18 – Gabriel
P18 – Dack
P32 – Wharton
A22 – Ingber
A12 -- Gold
A13 -- Alexander
P12 -- Leader
P21 -- Hahn
P11 -- Kessler
A28 – Roth
P25 -- Leavitt
A27 -- Prager/Zevit
A29 – Unger
P 27 -- Rafael
P23 -- Kass
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Weekday Davennen (Prayer) Schedule
Weekday Davennen (Prayer)
Schedule
Diverse morning and evening davennen (prayer) experiences are highlights of our
weekdays together. Take a risk! Check out a creative minyan one day-- a chant, meditation, yoga or other
offering--, and a traditional minyan on another. In the pages that follow, you’ll find a chart providing the
theme and type of each service, the day and start time, and special notes pertaining to some services.
Tachlis (The Details) All services are held indoors unless otherwise noted. Brief bios of service leaders follow
the chart for each day’s services. When someone is leading two or three different prayer services, their bio
will appear on the day of their FIRST service. Shabbat services are listed in their own section.
Monday
Monday’s Service Descriptions
Start
Time
5:45
7:30
Theme
A Gift of
Welcome
Night Falls
so Gently:
Evening
Prayers to
give us a
Resting
Spirit
Service / Style
Mincha
Ma’ariv Night time, according to our Midrashic Tradition,
was the time Jacob went into the fields to pray and find
peace. In this short service, we will sing a few gentle
melodies, say a Standing Quiet Prayer to ourselves, and
feel the comfort of being in solitude, while still being in
community. May it give us the centering we need for the
rest of the night, and for the rest of the week.
Service
Leader
R.Mark
Novak
R.Jack
Gabriel
Location
Cheney
1
BYOS
Tent
BYOS
Monday’s Service Leader Biographies
Gabriel
Reb Ya’acov (Jack)
has shared music and Jewish Renewal, from Capetown to Kona, Toronto to
Berkeley. He teaches user-friendly Kabbalah and has written over 613 songs in post-folk, post-reggae
andpost-Yeshiva styles. He’s taught or led events at 11 previous Kallot.
Novak
Rabbi Mark
– weekday davvenen coordinator for Kallah - is the spiritual guide of Minyan Oneg
Shabbat, Washington, DC’s new Renewal community. He works professionally as a rabbi and spiritual director
(RebMarko.com), hazzan, musician (TheMarkNovakBand.com), and storyteller (Jewishstorytelling.com) He
and his wife, storyteller/juggler Renée Brachfeld have been presented as Scholars/Artists in Residence at over
140 synagogue throughout the US and Canada. Mark is also an avid gardener and Washington Nationals
fanatic.
1
BYOS = Bring Your Own Siddur
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Tuesday
Tuesday’s Service Descriptions
Start
Time
6.45am
Theme
Style
Service
Leader
Location
Speed
Davvenen
Shacharit. No time to think; just say the words,
one after the other, as fast as you can. A
popular form of meditation for centuries, Minhag
Eretz Yisrael, as practiced in Tzfat, my
hometown. The service has three main parts:
Preliminary Morning Blessings, P’sukei d’Zimra
(psalms & passages of praise); and Shacharit.
Reuven
Goldfarb
Monadnock
Lounge
(Campus
Center)
Lisa Levine
Alumni Lounge
(Peterson Hall)
R’s Goldie
Milgram &
Elyse
SeidnerJoseph
Beachfront
(Rain
alternative:
Lakeside
Center)
David
Curiel
Cheney
R Ephraim
Eisen
Tent
Hazzan
Abbe
Lyons
Cheshire
Community
Room
7:15am
Yoga
Shalom
7:30am
Davennen
in Nature
through the
Torah of
Metaphor
7:30am
ShEmanic
Journey
7:30am
Top Hits
Davvenen
7:45am
Davvenen
in the
Vernacular
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Note: Recite morning blessings prior to arriving
or come early to do so; in this minhag they are
not part of the service. If you wear a Tallit &
Tefillin, wrap yourself before the service.
Shacharit. Yoga Shalom brings together body,
mind, and spirit. Combining the two powerful
spiritual disciplines of Jewish worship and yoga
practice, Yoga Shalom leads to deeper
understandings of both. Each day’s practice will
begin with Kirtan Chant and continue with the
deepening of the breath. We will continue with a
one hour Yoga Practice which mirrors the
shacharit service and embodies each prayer in
a deeply spiritual and physical way. We end
with stretching, deep relaxation and a healing
circle. Open your heart, quiet your mind and
restore your spirit with Yoga Shalom.
Shacharit. Join us out in nature for a deep and
joyful connection to God through the expansive
experience of the nature metaphors embedded
within Jewish morning prayer and Torah. Chant,
movement, text and walking meditations will be
paired with the basic, traditional order of prayer.
Shacharit. Are there too many words in your
davvenen these days? Let’s try working with
six. We will explore the many ways the Shma
can transport us to davvenen bliss through
chant, gently guided meditation, and light
authentic movement.
Shacharit. Integrates melodies of Hannah
Tiferet Siegel, Shefa Gold, Aryeh Hirschfeld,
Shlomo Carlebach, Shefa Gold, and, Efriam
Eisen.
Shacharit. We will davven together – in English!
The nusach (traditional prayer melodies) will
help us get into a melodic groove, & using
English will shine a new light on the meanings
of the prayers, whether familiar or unfamiliar.
This service will be accessible & engaging for
all levels of knowledge of Jewish prayer, and an
English siddur will be provided. Experience the
ALEPH Kallah 2013
richness of Jewish prayer & Torah with a
difference!
8:00am
Musical
Learner’s
Minyan
Shacharit. A joy-filled service mixing song and
chant, aimed at all levels of davenners.
R David
Zaslow
Under the Ash
Tree (in front of
Marcucella)
(Rain
alternative:
Marcucella
126)
5:45
Mincha of
the Heart
Mincha. Breathe, sing, chant and listen deeply
to psalms for healing and renewal.
Ma’ariv
7:30
Rabbinic
Pastor
Shayndel
Kahn
Hazzan
Abbe
Lyons
Cheney
Lakeside
Center BYOS
Tuesday’s Service Leader Biographies
Curiel
David
is a rabbinic student in the ALEPH Smicha program. He currently tends to the spiritual
development of children and their families--his passion alongside davennen--as a teacher and administrator
at Kesher After School Hebrew School in Somerville, MA and teacher at the Nehar Shalom Community
Synagogue in Jamaica Plain, MA. But it was not always so! For 15 years, he worked in the high tech and wine
industries, pausing along the way to earn an MBA at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. David has
traveled and prayed and meditated across five continents, lived in three countries and seven states, but now
happily makes his home in Jamaica Plain with his wife, Amberly and their new daughter, Dafna.
Eisen
Rabbi Efraim
has been leading Temple Israel in Greenfield, MA since 2002. He and his wife
Rosalie developed and taught over 200 Basherte workshop experiences since 1993. He is a chasid of Rabbi
Shlomo Carlebach and has been singing his music since childhood.
Goldfarb
Reuven
received S’micha from Reb Zalman as Moreinu, Maggid, and Rabbinic Deputy in 1993.
He served as Shomer, ritual leader, logistical coordinator, and newsletter editor for the Aquarian Minyan over
a three decade-long association. He co-founded and edited AGADA, the illustrated Jewish literary magazine.
His poems, stories, and essays have been widely published and won several awards. He and his wife Yehudit
presently live in Tzfat, their home for the past 12 years.
Kahn
Shayndel
(Tues Mincha & Thurs Maariv), ordained as Rabbinic Pastor, Masphpia Ruchanit in 2011,
is a Cantor, and hospice chaplain who uses therapeutic music at the bedside of patients. She is creator of
liturgical music and sings from her soul.
Levine
Lisa
(Tues & Thurs Shacharit) is a nationally known composer, poet, author and worship artist and
the creator of “Yoga Shalom” published by URJ Press. She is a JBC featured author and her compositions are
sung in congregations around the world. www.cantorlisalevine.com
Lyons
Hazzan Abbe
(Tues & Thurs Shacharit) received ALEPH smicha in 2010 and works as an Educator at
Congregation Tikkun v'Or and Executive Director of the Ithaca Health Alliance. She also facilitates
SpeakChorus Torah, a unique creative midrashic process.
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Milgram
Rabbi Goldie
(Tues & Thurs Shacharit) travels year-long, world-wide, bridging and advancing
Jewish Renewal innovations, practices and principles across the full spectrum of Jewish life and practice. She
is coordinating the Reclaiming Judaism Press Virtual Siddur/Machzor in honor of Reb Zalman and welcomes
your ideas and submissions. Reb Goldie founded and directs Reclaiming Judaism,
www.ReclaimingJudaism.org, an award-winning non-profit and publishing house providing innovative
programs of Jewish spiritual development for communities, spiritual educator training and Maggid Educator
ordination, and many resources including, Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning, just honored
by the National Jewish Book Awards.
Seidner-Joseph
Rabbi Elyse
is thrilled to be at her sixth Aleph Kallah! Founder and spiritual leader
of Makom Kadosh: The Jewish Fellowship of Chester County, she also enjoys reading lots of novels, cooking,
playing the ukulele, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Philadelphia Flyers. Elyse received smicha from the
ALEPH Ordination program in January 2013.
Zaslow
Rabbi David
(Tues, Thurs & Fri Shacharit) is the spiritual leader of Havurah Shir Hadash in
Ashland, OR, and the interim rabbi of Nevei Kodesh in Boulder, CO. Along with his wife, Devorah, he is the codirector of the Maggidic Training Program and author of the Jewish Renewal siddur, Ivdu et Hashem
B’simcha.
Wednesday
Wednesday’s Service Descriptions
Start
Time
Theme
Style
Service
Leader
Location
6:45a
m
Straw into
Gold: A 30
Minute
Meditation
Session
Shacharit. It's the paying attention that lends itself to the
insights. …This is how you spin straw into gold.
R Jeff
Roth
Beachfront
(Rain
alternative:
Lakeside
Center)
7:15a
m
Yoga
Davennen
Shacharit. Yoga Davvenen is a gentle, heart opening
movement meditation. We will use a few simple words
from the Shacharit service, psalms and Paulette’s
original prayer/poems as well as inspirational music to
awaken to the morning.
Paulette
RochelleLevy
Alumni
Lounge
(Peterson
Hall)
7:30a
m
Davennen in
Nature
through the
Torah of
Metaphor
Shacharit. Join us out in nature for a deep and joyful
connection to God through the expansive experience of
the nature metaphors embedded within Jewish morning
prayer and Torah. Chant, movement, text and walking
meditations will be paired with the basic, traditional order
of prayer.
R’s
Goldie
Milgram
& Eva
SaxBolder
Beachfront
(Rain
alternative:
Lakeside
Center)
7:30a
m
Tefillin Wrap
R Andrea
CohenKeiner
7:30a
m
Soul
Journeying
Through
Shacharit. This is for folks (all genders) who are new to
tefillin and wish to try these powerful supports to morning
worship. We'll put on our tefillin and have a mostly
meditative service
Shacharit. Ground your spirit through body awareness,
meditation, chant, melodies and conscious opening to
our relationship with God in the spirit of Hashpaah
Monadnock
Lounge
(Campus
Center)
Tent
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Israel
Zevit
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Prayer
7:45a
m
Gratitude,
Wonder &
Praise
8:00a
m
Shhhhhacharit
5:45
Healing
Service
(Jewish Spiritual Guidance), in combination with the
essential structure of the morning prayer service.
Shacharit. Begin the day with gratitude, praise, inner
reflection and joy, inviting Kabir, Danny Siegel, and Mary
Oliver into our minyan to add their voices to ours as we
travel through the morning liturgy.
Shacharit. Gently awaken and energize your body, heart,
mind, and spirit with soul-full nigunim and meditative
melodies as we prepare ourselves for the astonishing
day that is about to begin!
Mincha. We will build a Mishkan (Tabernacle) between
us and within us, and invite The Divine Presence to
enter.
Ma’ariv
7:30
Latifa
Kropf
Cheshire
Community
Room
Cantor
Martin
Levson
Cheney
R Shefa
Gold
assisted
by Kol
Zimra
Alumni
R Mark
Novak
with R
Shawn
Israel
Zevit
Cheney
Tent
BYOS
Wednesday’s Service Leader Biographies
Cohen-Keiner
Andrea
(Wednesday, Th Mincha and S Schacharit ) is a rabbi, farmer, and storyteller.
She is spiritual leader of Congregation P’nai Or of central CT and is currently storyteller in residence at the
Rochester Folk Arts Guild.
Gold
Rabbi Shefa
received her ordination both from the RRC and from Reb Zalman. She is the director of
C-DEEP, The Center for Devotional Energy and Ecstatic Practice in Jemez Springs, NM. Shefa’s newst book,
The Magic of Hebrew Chant: Healing the Spirit, Transforming the Mind, Deepening Love is publsihed by
Jewish Lights.
Kropf
Latifa Berry
is a founding member and lay leader of her renewal chavura in Charlottesville, VA. She
has been leading services for Shabbat and holidays for 25 years. Latifa also creates and leads sacred dance in
her home community and at conferences and synagogues around the country. You may learn more at
Jewishsacreddance.com
Levson
Cantor Martin
is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College, and serves Sinai Temple in Springfield,
MA. He was a faculty member for all nine annual Lev Shalom/URJ Jewish Meditation Kallot in Prescott,
Arizona
See Tuesday’s Biograhphies for Rabbi Goldie
Milgram
Roth
Rabbi Jeff
, past Director of P’nai Or and co-founder of Elat Chayyim, is director of The Awakened
Heart Project for Contemplative Judaism, co-leader of the Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training Program and
author of Jewish Meditation Practices for Everyday Life. www.awakenedheartproject.org
Rochelle-Levy
Paulette
is a psychotherapist, Jewish spiritual leader, artist, and dancer, as well as
mother and grandmother. She is dedicated to being a catalyst for creative people of all ages in every
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endeavor, and is the author of Dancing with the Divine: Meditations & Prayers for Movement & Stillness, And
You Shall be a Blessing, and the CD Medicine Words.
Sax-Bolder
Eva
is an ALEPH rabbinic student, rabbinic intern at Temple Beth El of City Island, NY under
the mentorship of Rabbi Shohama Wiener, chant leader, Jewish ritual artist and spiritual director.
Zevit
Rabbi Shawn Israel
is a congregational and organizational consultant, rabbi of Congregation T’chiyah
of Detroit, MI, author, spiritual director, liturgist, recording artist, member of the ALEPH Ordination Program
Va’ad, Associate Director of the ALEPH Hashpa’ah Spiritual Direction Program, and co-director of the
Davvenen Leadership Training Institute. www.rabbizevit.com
Thursday
Thursday’s Service Descriptions
Start
Time
Theme
Style
Service
Leader
Location
6:45a
m
From
Western
Canada with
Love: An Or
Shalom
Shacharit
Shacharit. Join experienced davveners from
Vancouver's Renewal Shul - Or Shalom
Synagogue -for a West Coast Canadian weekday
Shacharit and Torah service. We will delight and
refresh you with some sweet niggunim (wordless
melodies) and chants, inspiring Torah reflections,
a guided meditation Amidah, and traditional
nusach chanted in both Hebrew and English
Tent
7:15
Otiyot
Hayyot
Davennen
Shacharit. Embodying our prayers with Hebrew
letter movements. We will create sacred space by
ascending the Tree of Life through movements &
sounds corresponding to the ten sefirot (Jewish
mystery tradition word for emanations of the
Divine). We will then dance words and phrases
from the prayers using Hebrew Letter Movements
before descending the Tree of Life.
Rabbinic
student Susan
Shamash w/ R
Laura Duhan
Kaplan,
Charles
Kaplan, Lorne
Mallin, & Heidi
Mannis.
Yehudit
Goldfarb
7:15
Yoga
Shalom
Shacharit. Gentle Yoga Shalom for beginners and
people with physical challenges.
Lisa Levine
Alumni
Lounge
(Peterson
Hall)
7:30
Song +
Prayer =
Pure Joy
Shacharit. You've heard of "downward dog"? This
is "upward God"! Join Novak & Salzman for a joyfilled morning of song, prayer & Torah. Come
prepared to channel your inner Mahalia Jackson!
R’s Mark
Novak & Jan
Salzman
Cheney
Farbrengen
Davennen
Shacharit. During this joyful & deep neo-hassidic
approach to the Divine encounter, we will create a
new sacred tale. A powerful niggun by Reb Aryeh
2
Hirshfield, z'tl & core elements of tefillah & brief
R Goldie
Milgram with
Baruch Morris
Cheshire
Community
Room
7:45a
m
2
Monadnock
Lounge
(Campus
Center)
BYOS
Zt”l; an abbreviation for the Hebrew phrase, “zekher tzadik livrakha” which means, “may the memory of
the righteous be a blessing”
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Torah service using both nusach & melodies from
Jewish Renewal composers.
8:00a
m
Musical
Learner’s
Minyan
R David
Zaslow
Beachfront
(Rain
alternative:
Lakeside
Center)
5:45
The Gift of
Stopping
Mincha. Stop in the early evening for a mincha
meditation. We'll take time to quiet and center
from all the impressions and input of a full day
R Andrea
Cohen-Keiner
Cheney
Ma’ariv
Rabbinic
Pastor
Shayndel
Kahn
7:30
BYOS
Lakeside
Center
BYOS
Thursday’s Service Leader Biographies
Look for Rabbi Andrea
Cohen-Keiner on Wednesday
Or Shalom was founded by Rabbis Daniel and Hanna Tiferet Siegel in 1978. Rabbi Laura
Duhan
Kaplan has been our spiritual leader since 2005. Or Shalom is committed to the integrity of our Jewish
tradition and its continual evolution, seeking to live an authentic, creative and deeply satisfying spiritual life.
We are creative, egalitarian, traditional, and participatory and are dedicated to providing an inclusive
community. Our uniqueness expresses itself in the melodies, poetry, visual arts, creative liturgy and new
ceremonies created by our members.
Goldfarb
Yehudit
, Ph.D., Eshet Hazon, is a writer, photographer, healer, and teacher of Torah,
Kabbalah, T’ai Chi, and Otiyot Hayyot. A co-founder of the Aquarian Minyan, she now co-directs Maor HaLev
Center for Movement, Healing, and Language Arts in Tzfat.
Look for Rabbinic Pastor Shayndel
Kahn’s biography on Tuesday.
Levine’s (T & Th Shacharit) biography on Tuesday.
Look for Rabbi Goldie Milgram’s bio on Tuesday.
Baruch Morris provides a joyfully innovative approach to ensemble davennen rooted in the mentorship
Look for Lisa
of liturgical composer and recording artist Rabbi Aryeh Hirshfield, of blessed memory, present-day training
with Rabbi Jack Kessler as a student hazzan in the ALEPH Ordination Program combined with flavors from
Baruch's recent Israel studies and experience with the Israeli Jewish Renewal community. Baruch also serves
as Music Director of P'nai Or of Portland, OR
Novak’s Bio on Monday.
Jan Salzman received her smicha through ALPEH in 2010, as well as receiving smicha in the ALEPH hashLook for Mark
pa-a program. Prior to becoming a Rabbi, she was a landscaper and certified-organic farmer. She has been
living in Vermont since 1978 and currently is the Assistant Rabbi and Cantor at Ohavi Zedek in Burlington
Vermont, a Conservative-affiliated Synagogue
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Zaslow’s bio on Tuesday
Friday
Friday’s Service Descriptions
Start
Time
7:15am
Theme
Style
Service
Leader
Location
Yoga
Davennen
Shacharit. Yoga Davvenen is a gentle, heart
opening movement meditation. We will use a few
simple words from the Shacharit service, psalms
and Paulette’s original prayer/poems as well as
inspirational music to awaken to the morning.
Paulette
RochelleLevy
Under the Ash
Tree (in front
of Marcucella)
(Rain
alternative:
Monadnock
Lounge)
Alumni
Lounge
(Peterson
Hall)
7:15am
Otiyot Hayyot
Davennen
Shacharit. Embodying our prayers with Hebrew
letter movements. We will create sacred space
by ascending the Tree of Life through
movements & sounds corresponding to the ten
sefirot (Jewish mystery tradition word for
emanations of the Divine). We will then dance
words and phrases from the prayers using
Hebrew Letter Movements before descending
the Tree of Life.
Yehudit
Goldfarb
7:30
Contemplative
Chanting
Shacharit
Shacharit. Accompanied by acoustic guitar,
introductory kavahnot (intentions) and pauses for
meditation, a gentle and insight-filled awakening
to the day.
R Jeff
Roth
Monadnock
Lounge
(Campus
Center)
7:45
Drum
Davennen
R Ilan
Glazer &
Akiva the
Beliver
Cheney
8:00am
Openings
R Jill
Hammer
Cheshire
8:00am
Musical
Learner’s
Minyan
Shacharit. Join long-time ALEPH drummers
Akiva the Believer and Rabbi Ilan Glazer in a
new experience of playful prayer. With rhythm
and song, Akiva and Ilan will guide us into the
words of the liturgy and the words in our hearts.
No drumming experience necessary. Feel free to
bring shakers, drums, or other percussion
instruments with you (though some will be on
hand for those who don’t have any). Be prepared
for rhythm, fun, and soul
Shacharit. An abbreviated davvenen including
chanting and guided meditation, in which we will
explore the underground world to which Korach
is sent in this week's parashah, and see how this
image resonates for us in our own lives. We will
use traditional liturgy, poetry, and creative liturgy
(including some liturgy in the feminine, from the
siddur of the Kohenet Institute).
R David
Zaslow
Beachfront
(Rain
alternative:
Lakeside
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Center)
Friday’s Service Leader Biographies
Rochelle-Levy’s (W & Fr)bio on Wednesday.
Akiva the Believer (Wharton) is a Master Drummer who is helping to reintroduce drumming back
Look for Paulette
into Jewish prayer settings. He is the first ordained "Holy Drummer" since the Temple was destroyed
thousands of years ago. Akiva plays at synagogues, retreats, drum circles and concerts around the world.
Akiva's first cd, "The Rhythm of G!d" is finally out and available. Akiva lives on a beach on Long Island. There
he holds services where people come to sing, pray, dance AND DRUM!
Glazer
Rabbi Ilan
is a graduate of ALEPH’s Davennen Leadership Training Institute, Kol Zimra, and the
ALEPH Rabbinic program. Ilan leads davennen and teaches in many congregations, and is a sought-after
Jewish drummer. Ilan and Chana Leslie co-led the most recent ALEPH Birthright trip, and are looking forward
to many new adventures.
Goldfarb’s (Th & F) bio on Thursday.
Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, is the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, as
Look for Yehudit
well as the co-founder and co-director of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, a spiritual leadership
training institute for Jewish women. She has written four books: The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for
all Seasons, The Omer Calendar of Biblical Women, Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women, and The
Hebrew Priestess (forthcoming 2014). She is also the author of many articles, essays, contemporary
midrashim, stories, and poems, and has taught in many contexts from the Jewish Theological Seminary to
Hebrew Union College to Sukkahfest.
Roth’s (W & F) bio on Wednesday.
Look for Rabbi David Zaslow’s (T,Th,Fr) bio on Tuesday.
Look for Rabbi Jeff
Sunday
Sunday’s Service Descriptions
Start
Time
Theme
Style
Service
Leader
Locatio
n
7:15am
3 Fires
Shacharit. Each morning we remember the temple
service, the basis for our morning tefillah (prayer).
Each day three fires were renewed: the animal, the
incense and the menorah. We'll move thru our
morning service by beginning with a meditative
exploration of these offerings: our life energy (anima),
our intention (incense) and our attention (light of the
mind/menorah).
Shacharit. This service is designed to open our hearts
and souls to all the blessings we've received at Kallah
and help us place these gifts deep inside our hearts,
so we may use them as we move forward. With light
yoga, Qi Gong, Hebrew chant, rhythm, and some
traditional prayers, we will uplift our souls, nourish our
R Andrea
CohenKeiner
Cheney
R’s Chana
Leslie Glazer
and Ilan
Glazer
Tent
7:30
Opening
Our Hearts
for the Road
Ahead
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7:45am
8:00am
Traditional
Egalitarian
Shacharit
4 Worlds
Davennen
hearts, and welcome and bless the day, and our
journey ahead.
Shacharit. …that includes chanting and meditation, as
well as kavanot.
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R Elyssa Joy
Auster
Cheshire
BYOS
Shacharit. This service will follow the structure of a
traditional shacharit (birkot hashachar, p'zukei d'zimra,
Sh'ma with blessings, Amidah, conclusion), using both
Hebrew and English, alternative parallel nusach,
chanting, and some physical movement.A service that
speaks to all four worlds.
R Jeff Marker
Beachfro
nt
(Rain
alternativ
e:
Lakeside
Center)
Sunday’s Service Leader Biographies
Auster
Rabbi Elyssa Joy
aims to bring prayer into most moments of her life. She has a passionate love
for the Holy One which manifests through song, movement, meditation, Torah study, making tallitot, and
deep human connection. After completing a BA at Brandeis University and a Masters of Theological Studies at
Boston University School of Theology, Rabbi Elyssa went on to pursue her love of God and Torah in the
rabbinate. Rabbi Elyssa received smicha and a Masters of Jewish Education from pluralistic Hebrew College,
and has worked as educator, rabbi, and cantor in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Alaska, and Florida.
Cohen-Keiner’s bio on Wednesday
Look for Ilan Glazer’s bio on Friday
Rabbi Chana Leslie is a congregational rabbi, interfaith activist, yoga, chant, and movement practitioner,
Look for Andrea
and former journalist and foreign correspondent. She was recently ordained from the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College and is delighted to be at her first Kallah!
Marker
Jeffrey
identifies as both a Renewal and Conservative rabbi. He was ordained by the Jewish
Theological Seminary in 1982. He has been a student of Reb Zalman for over four decades, so was probably
the first (bli neder3) student to get ordained by JTS as a conscious disciple of Reb Zalman
3
Bli neder A ‘neder’ is a vow. Many Jews take the spoken word –especially vows--very seriously. Due to the strength of a
neder, and the fact that one must absolutely be fulfilled if made, many pious Jews engage in the practice of saying "b'li
neder" after a statement that they will do something, meaning that their statement is not a binding neder in the event
they cannot fulfill their pledge due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Lunch N Learn
Lunch & Learn
Got a voracious appetite for learning??? Kallah is debuting our new “Lunch & Learn” – an opportunity to
get your teeth into some interesting area for discussion!
Grab your lunch and meet your chevre in the rear Dining Room (near the door to outside dining) at
12:30.
Here’s the schedule:
Tuesday, July 2: Re-imagining Shmita
During biblical times, there was a shared cultural calendar cycle which powerfully re-adjusted agriculture
and commerce every seventh year. During this time period, all debts would be forgiven, agricultural
lands would lie fallow, private land holdings would become open to the commons, and staples such as
food storage and perennial harvests would be redistributed and accessible to all. This year was called
Shmita, translated as the ‘Year of Release’ and more widely known as the Sabbatical Year. Come learn
about the growing movement to re-imagine the values of this tradition to support our own efforts
towards local food systems, resilient economies, and healthy communities.
Deutscher
Yigal
is an educator, farmer, and permaculture designer. He is the founder of 7Seeds,
an educational platform combining Jewish indigenous teachings & Permaculture Design strategies, as
well as the manager of Hazon’s Shmita Project.
Thursday, July 4: Eco-Judaism
How can mitzvot and a Torah perspective help us respond responsibly to the eco-crises of our time?
What is the growing edge of a "kashrut," a true sense of appropriate consumption? Come add to our
questions and insights at this table talk with Rabbi Andrea.
Cohen-Kiener
Andrea
is a rabbi, farmer and story teller. She is in residence at the Rochester
Folk Art Guild in rural NY. Andrea is dedicated to peaceful communication technologies, living simply
and singing with others. She is the spiritual leader of Congregation P'nai Or in central CT.
Shabbos, July 6: Elat Chayyim: what Was, Is, and Will Be
A facilitated discussion about the history and future of Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality…How
Renewal is renewing individuals, families, and communities at Hazon's Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat
Center.
Adam 'Segulah'
Sher serves as Hazon's Director of Transformative Experiences, headquartered at
Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, CT. Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality,
a program of Hazon at Isabella Freedman, is a particular focus of his work and is very close to his heart.
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The Rebbe is IN
ALEPH Kallah 2013
Joe
Laur
The Rebbe Is In!
Rivkah
Walton
Shawn
Israel
Zevit
Matia
Rania
Angelou
Mia
Cohen
Sandra
Wortzel
Eva
Neuhaus
Gavriel
Strauss
Zelig
Golden
Goldie
Milgram
An opportunity each day
to sample the bounty
offered by
Welcome to ‘The Rebbe is In!’ afternoon program. For an
hour on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday, the directors
and students of some of ALEPH’s Programs will be available
to speak casually with you about the programs you’re
interested in learning more about, and in giving you a taste
of what it might be like to participate as a student in one of
those programs. Please join us! Descriptions of the various
sessions follow in table form, and after that you’ll find a
brief description of the programs represented here, and
links to find out more.
The Rebbe Is In! Schedule
Day(s)
Location
Sponsoring
ALEPH
Program
Host
Title and Description
Tuesday,
Wednesday
& Thursday
Lakeside
Conference
Center
CDEEP
Graduates of the
Center for
Devotional Energy
and Ecstatic Practice
(CDEEP) Kol Zimra
Chant Leader’s
Training Program
A Taste Of Ecstatic Practice
The practice of chant, as taught by Rabbi
Shefa Gold is a way of transforming a
sacred phrase from our liturgy or text into
a tool of healing and transformation.
Experience the power of chant, designed
to open your heart and connect us to each
other and to the Great Mystery.
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The Rebbe is IN
Tuesday,
Wednesday
& Thursday
Cheshire
Community
Room
LLCP
Rivkah Walton, Lay
Leadership
Certificate Program
(LLCP) Director and
ALEPH’s Associate
Director
Tuesday,
Wednesday
& Thursday
Tent
Joe Laur, Eva
Weaving
Neuhaus, R. Shefa
the
Generations Gold, Gavriel Strauss,
Zelig Golden and Mia
Cohen
Tuesday
Cheney
Hashpa’ah
Smichah
Program
Incoming Associate
Director Rabbi
Shawn Zevit along
with Matia Angelou
and Sandra Wortzel,
graduates of the of
the ALEPH
HASHPA'AH smichah
program
Wednesday
Cheney
Virtual
Siddur /
Machzor
project.
Rabbi Goldie
Milgram
Thursday
Petrocelli
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ALEPH
Ordination
Programs
Faculty and students
of ALEPH ordination
programs
ALEPH Lay Leadership Certificate Program
LLCP Open House
If you think that this journey of learning
and exploration may be for you – or if you
are already enrolled in LLCP – come meet
us to touch base or learn more! All are
welcome.
Weaving the Generations
For Jewish Renewal to take its work to the
next level and to the next generation, it is
imperative that we grow as an
intergenerational movement. Each day we
will engage in deep conversation about
Paradigm Shift, connect elder and younger
leaders, and engage in experiences which
highlight the truth of our
interconnectedness
A Taste of Hashpa’ah (Spiritual Direction)
Hashpa'ah is the traditional term for the
exploration one undertakes in relationship
with a spiritual director or mashpia who
offers guidance and teaching on matters of
Jewish faith and practice, and on a
personal relationship with the Divine.
Please join us for a light dip into a sacred
circle of exploring your connection to, and
relationship with, the Divine in your life.
Honor Reb Zalman with Your
Volunteerism and Liturgical Innovations
Join the editors & advisors and a growing
host of section captains who are visioning,
designing & organizing a free, virtual,
multi-media siddur/machzor in honor of
Reb Zalman. Audio, video, graphic, written
-- everything liturgy-related, e.g., your new
paradigm, Jewish Renewal, approaches to
prayers, music, commentary, group aliyot,
art-- as expressed through dance, yoga,
kirtan, chant, gematriya, Interplay, etc.
Join us and collaborate on how our
creative ideas can blend in this project.
Open House for ALEPH Ordination
Programs An opportunity for ALEPH
Rabbinic, Rabbinic Pastor, Cantorial and
Hashpa'ah students, VAAD members and
faculty to gather for a mid-week reunion
and check-in –– and to meet and greet
prospective applicants as well. If you are a
current student or someone who is serious
about exploring this path, please join us!
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About our Sponsoring ALEPH Programs and their Representatives
CDEEP: Center for Devotional Energy and Ecstatic Practice (C-DEEP) ...a resource-place for
communities and individuals who want to explore the deep treasures of Judaism in order to cultivate
the devotional and ecstatic aspects of their lives. One of C-Deep’s programs is Kol Zimra.
Kol Zimra Chant Leaders Training Program builds a Mishkan for spiritual work. The sacred phrase
becomes the tool of that building project. By using that tool, we are gradually initiated into an intimate
relationship with text. The sacred text becomes our modality for… healing, community-building, deep
inner exploration, the doorway into meditative states, cultivating midot, connection with the ancestors,
with God and with our deepest truth.


Gold can be reached by email at: [email protected]
Co-Leader Rachmiel O'Regan can be reached by email at: [email protected]
Co Leader Rabbi Shefa
ALEPH’s Lay Leadership Certificate Program (LLCP) is designed for Renewal Jews seeking to become
educated, empowered, and inspirational leaders of their communities and organizations. Through it, you
may grow into your role as service/ritual leader, artistic text interpreter, spiritual counselor, community
activist, youth educator and more. LLCP is unique in both its depth and its flexibility. With the close
support of an Advisor and/or Mentor, you will acquire a thorough understanding of Renewal approaches
to Jewish thought and practice; gain leadership skills; find a chevra; and craft a sustaining personal
spiritual practice. (Just by attending Kallah, you have fulfilled one requirement toward this Certificate!)

Walton
ALEPH’s LLCP Director Rivkah
helped create the Philadelphia “B’nai Or” community
that eventually grew into ALEPH. Her portfolio includes ALEPH’s Beit Midrash, LLCP, and the
Institute for Contemporary Midrash. She is also an improvisational Bibliodrama facilitator,
trainer, and visual artist.
Hashpa’ah offers a three-year concentration in Jewish Spiritual Counseling and Guidance which warmly
welcomes graduates and students of all Jewish seminaries approved by OHALAH: Association of Rabbis
for Jewish Renewal. [Learn more about OHALAH at www.OHALAH.org. Membership in OHALAH brings
you into a circle of spirit-filled creativity and does not conflict with membership in any denominational
rabbinic or cantorial association.] Registration is now open to all eligible applicants. See also
http://archive.jewishrecon.org/spiritual-direction
Zevit

Rabbi Shawn Israel
is a congregational and organizational consultant, rabbi of
Congregation T'Chiyah of Detroit, author, spiritual director, liturgist, recording artist, member of
the VAAD of the ALEPH Ordination and Hashpa'ah Programs, and co-director of the Davvenen
Leadership Training Institute.

Rabbinic Pastor Matia Rania
is a Jewish and an Interfaith Chaplain for in Greater
Boston. She uses her music in her healing work as a hospital and hospice chaplain . Matia
received smicha as Rabbinic Pastor/Jewish Chaplain and Mashpiah Ruchanit/Spiritual Director
through ALEPH and has been honored with the title Eshet Hazon/Woman of Vision.
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Angelou
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
The Rebbe is IN
Wortzel
Rabbinic Pastor Sandra
integrates what she knows and loves: Expressive Arts,
Judaism from a Four Worlds perspective, Hashpa’ah, contemplative practices, art-making for
growing one’s soul, and encouraging spiritual growth through creativity and play, individually
and communally, in the studio and in nature.
Weaving the Generations furthers the paradigm shift of Jewish Renewal with a village-building ethos
that honors the essential gifts of each generation, connects the generations with collaborative
relationship building opportunities, and empowers the growth of vibrant, intergenerational Jewish life.
For the past several months, a group of committed individuals, representing many different ages and
stages of life, have been meeting to discuss the future of the Jewish Renewal movement. These have
included Rabbi Shefa Gold, Adam Segulah Sher, Amitai Gross, Rabbi Jeremy Parnes, Joe Laur, Rabbi Burt
Jacobson, Shir Yaakov Feinstein Feit, Eva Neuhaus, Jade Netanya, Mia Miriam Cohen, Zelig Golden,Rabbi
Marcia Prager,Gavriel Strauss, Sarah Rohr, and Sarai Shapiro.
The programs offered at this Kallah are an outcome of this work. Please be sure to also attend the
following programs (in addition to the Rebbe Is In programming):
Tuesday Evening Ritual (8 PM)
Friday at 12:45PM Teen return ceremony & “Wrapping the Bundle”
Shabbat Morning Davennen with Rabbi Shawn Zevit, Mia Cohen, Eva Neuhaus, and Mitch
Gordon
ALEPH Ordination Programs. Training Rabbis, Rabbinic Pastors, Cantors & Spiritual Directors for the
Global Jewish Community. Learn more at: www.aleph.org/ordinations.htm
Virtual Siddur / Machzor project. A technology grant has been received for this project. Every
innovator, artist, author or organization will receive a free click-through link that leads straight back to
your website for each piece of yours that is integrated into this initiative.

Milgram
Rabbi Goldie
is Executive and Editor-in-Chief
ReclaimingJudaism.org, Reclaiming Judaism Press & Bmitzvah.org
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Films
ALEPH Kallah 2013
Films
Schedule
Day
Sunday 6/30
Monday 7/1
Tuesday 7/2
Wed 7/3
Thursday 7/4
Time
9:30 PM
10:00 PM
2:15 PM
2:15 PM
2:15 PM
2:15 PM
2:15 PM
Place
Petrocelli 112
Petrocelli 112
Petrocelli 112
Film
In Your Light We See Light
Yiddish: A Tale of Survival
To Remember To Return
Petrocelli 112
Children of Abraham
Petrocelli 112
CROSSING THE LINES
Facing the Nazi Era: Conversations in Southern
Germany”
Hineini
2:15 PM Petrocelli 112
10:00 PM Petrocelli 112
Descriptions
In Your Light We See Light – Celebrating
the Legacy of Rabbi Zalman SchacterShalomi
( 45 min.) Sally Plone
On the occasion of his 80th
birthday, Reb Zalman wrote,
“What I realy want…..is the
knowledge that my life’s
work will live on.” This film
celebrates Reb Zalman’s
legacy through his words
and the words of his
students, addressing topics ranging from
meaningful prayer to the Chassidic tradition to
ecumenism. It is a delight to sample some of
Reb Zalman’s best teaching.Director Sally Plone
made this film as a labor of love and with a
deep sense of gratitude. Also a practicing
psychotherapist, Sally uses film to find the
beauty and uniqueness in our lives, and to
celebrate how we are touched and enriched by
each other.
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Yiddish: A Tale of
Survival
(60 min) Abigail Hirsch
In this film the history of
Yiddish is revealed by
exploring the lives and
careers of three Yiddish
performers. The first,
Shmuel Atzmon, is an Israeli actor who founded
the Yiddishpiel Theater and has been acting for
50 years. Bryna Wasserman, from Montreal, is
the heir to the Dora Wasserman Yiddish theatre
legacy. And lastly, we meet singer and actress
Milena Kartowski, who at the young age of 23
has discovered Yiddish and is helping to bring it
to a new generation. The film explores the
paths that brought each artist to Yiddish and
how it has shaped their lives. The film is deeply
moving and surprisingly entertaining. Director
Abigail Hirsch was born in Hungary and
currently lives in Montreal. After spending
years as a social worker, she decided to
dedicate herself to creating high quality
audio/visual works that can be used to educate
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Films
and entertain. She is the CEO and founder of
AskAbigail Productions.
To Remember To Return
(66 min.) Carola de Vries
Robles
2:15 | Petrocelli 115
Can one soften one's fate?
Can one turn one's life
story into prayer ? Yes,
that is possible. Through
McCauley
inner work. Soul work. And
through facing and
blessing what is. Carola de Vries Robles made a
documentary about her spiritual journey, which
shows her transformative art making and the
Jewish spiritual practices which support the
path of self- transformation. Come and witness
the documentary, To Remember To Return.
Come and reflect on how to respond to the
aftermath of the holocaust within. Can we learn
to complete the past in order not to repeat the
past? Come and learn about the healing power
of teshuvah, tefillah and tzedakah. Director
Carola de Cries Robles was born in 1946 on the
ruins of the Holocaust in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. As a psychologist, body oriented
psychotherapist, and creative arts specialist she
worked for many years with second generation
people and holocaust survivors. She is a
member of Aleph and active in the Jewish
Renewal Movement as lay leader and teacher.
She lives near Amsterdam and is visiting the
USA. She offers spiritual guidance and leads
Jewish meditation.
Facing the Nazi Era:
Conversations in
Southern Germany
(66 min) Lucy McCauley
2:15pm | Petrocelli 112 |
Film: Facing the Nazi Era:
Conversations in Southern Germany
This film recounts the legacy of WW2 and the
Holocaust through the lens of German non-Jews
in the small University town of Tubingen in
Southern Germany. The film documents a reemerging Jewish community and its efforts to
engage the community at large. A very real and
uniquely honest conversation, McCauley has an
uncanny ability to draw her subjects in and the
viewer benefits from the open and surprisingly
candid results. Director Lucy McCauley’s travel
essays have appeared in such publications as
The Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times,
Harvard Review, and The San Francisco
Chronicle. She won a Gold Solas Award in 2012
for her essay "Beneath the Surface," set at
Walden Pond. She now works as a
developmental editor for publishers such as
Harvard Business School Press and Jossey-Bass.
Hineni
(60 min) Irena Fayngold
10:00pm | Petrocelli112
HINEINI (Hebrew for ‘Here
I am') chronicles the story
of one student's
courageous fight to
establish a gay-straight alliance at a Jewish high
school in the Boston area and the
transformative impact of her campaign on her
entire community. Longing to connect more
deeply with her Jewish identity, Shulamit Izen
enters 9th grade at The New Jewish High School
(now Gann Academy) in Waltham,
Massachusetts. She also starts school as an out
lesbian. This is the story of a community
wrestling with the very definition of pluralism
and diversity in a Jewish context. Director Irena
Fayngold, works in educational programming at
WGBH Boston and is a member of Keshet, an
organization that strives to make the Jewish
community more inclusive of its GLBT
population.
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Films
ALEPH Kallah 2013
-Rabbi Gordon Tucker
OUR PROCESS DURING THE
FILM SCREENINGS During this
evening’s program we'll learn a few useful
exercises from the Compassionate Listening
training program, and then watch brief
segments of two films that provide witness
from Israel / Palestine, a precious, conflicted
part of the world. This will give us something to
respond to as we practice what we’ve learned.
Here’s a brief description of the two
documentary films we’ll be
watching:
CHILDREN OF
ABRAHAM
2:15pm | Petrocelli112 | Film:
Children of Abraham
The film follows Jewish Compassionate
Listening Program participants (two of the trip
participants are Jewish Renewal rabbis!) as they
visit with and listen to Israelis and Palestinians –
from leaders to refugees—and seek to
understand the complexities of religious,
political and human rights issues. Participants
include Jewish leaders and professionals
ranging from secular to observant. This
beautiful documentary introduces the
Compassionate Listening reconciliation model,
and humanizes each Israeli and Palestinian
portrayed. The film delivers a compelling
message that conflict can be transformed
through the simple act of listening.
Audience Feedback Children of Abraham
compellingly documents the profound
possibilities within a society in which friends and
enemies alike attune themselves to the voice of
the other. It should serve as an urgent reminder
of how badly we transgress and how much we
forfeit when we dismiss the power of listening
as too simple. This is not a promotion of a naive
quick fix, but rather a call to the wrenching but
essential heroism that Jewish tradition says
inheres in making one’s enemy into one’s friend.
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CROSSING THE LINES
2:15pm | Petrocelli112 | Film:
Crossing the Lines
Crossing the Lines is a 1.5 hourlong series of interviews with
folks who are party to the Israel
Palestine conflict as they engaged in a
Compassionate Listening (TM) session. At
Kallah, we'll listen to just a few of these 5-10
minute interviews. The interviews with 15
Israelis and Palestinians were selected from
over forty hours of footage from
Compassionate Listening delegations. This video
will expose you to a wide range of people and
viewpoints and bring you into the hearts and
minds of Israelis and Palestinians beyond the
news media.
Audience Feedback Thank you for this up-todate cross-section of the varied perceptions,
deep feelings, and equal humanity of two fine
peoples. This is it, for those who are looking for
one film to better understand different sides of
the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. --Libby & Len
Traubman, Jewish-Palestinian Living Room
Dialogue Group
ALEPH Kallah 2013
Affinity Groups
Affinity Groups
Monday thru Thursday
7:00pm – 7:50pm | Locations Vary
Affinity Groups provide a way to meet people
with similar concerns or life situations. Other
than the Singles group, which has a leader and
scheduled programming, Affinity Groups have
no agenda except that of connecting with
others in similar circumstances. Groups provide
a safe and confidential setting. Affinity groups
will meet Monday through Thursday evenings
from 7:00 p.m. to 7:50 p.m. Groups may also
elect to meet during meals or free time. Affinity
groups meet in Petrucelli Hall, Marcucella Hall,
Monadnock Lounge (Campus Center) and
Pappas Center.
12 Step
Petrocelli 114
Blended/Step-Families
Marcucella 215
Children of Holocaust
Survivors
Petrocelli 116
Clergy
Petrocelli 115
Educators**
Petrocelli 117
Elders
Petrocelli 112
GBLTQ
Petrocelli 108
*The singles group will be led by Basherte’s
Rabbi Efraim Eisen and will include workshops,
ritual and other opportunities for authentic
connection.
Healing Circle
Petrocelli 102
Interfaith Couples
Marcucella 215
Jews by Choice
Petrocelli 220
**On Wednesday, the Educators group will be
led by Rabbi Goldie Milgram who is heading up
a task force on Jewish Spiritual Education and
Direction for Youth.
Kesher
Marcucella 214
Living with Medical /
Physical Challenges
Monadnock
Lounge
(Campus
Center)
In Mourning
Petrocelli 101
Singles *
Pappas Center
212
New to Kallah / Renewal
Petrocelli 315
For specific room assignments, see Table below.
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SUNDAY June 30 (Pre-Kallah)
June 30 Event Descriptions
8:00pm | Cheney Hall
FINDING MIRIAM is an inspiring, funny
and poignant one-woman show. Weaving story,
song and puppetry with a bit of magic and time
travel, Joyce Friedman brings to life her journey of
discovering her relationship with her greatgrandmother Miriam, and the Biblical prophetess
Miriam. Written and Created by Joyce Miriam
Friedman Directed by Margie Zohn
Audience Feedback I'm so glad that I listened to
my heart and went to your show … . You are
AMAZING! What a moving production-- I
alternated laughing & crying throughout your
performance. I already knew that you could sing
and be witty, but the way you combined those
talents with great timing, writing, and
introspection was phenomenal.—Melanie
(New York City).
Experience our Rebbe,
Rabbi Zalman
Schachter-Shalomi , who will welcome us to the
week with a video blessing. Learn, grow and be
inspired by the
teaching, niggunim
(wordless melodies)
and song of some
of the most
treasured teachers
in the Northeast:
 Rabbi
R Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Rachel
Barenblat
(N. Adams, MA)
 Rabbi Ebn Leader (Newton, MA)
 Rabbi Riqi Kosovke (Northampton, MA),
 Joel Segel (Needham, MA) as well as
 New Mexico based Rabbi Shefa Gold
(formerly from NJ!)
TUESDAY, July 2
July 2 Schedule
8:00 | Three Festive Events All of these events
begin at 8:00pm, so you have to CHOOSE:
MONDAY, July 1
1. Hebrew Kirtan | Cheney Hall
2. Weaving the Generations | Lakeside Center
3. Musical Coffee House & Jam Session | Tent
AN EAST COAST WELCOME
Three selections to choose from @ 8:00pm
(begins with Ma’ariv at 7:30pm)
8:00pm in the Tent | Welcome to Kallah Event
1. HEBREW KIRTAN with R ANDREW
Delight in the masterful and heart-opening
davennen, teaching, and musical talent of some of
our Jewish Renewal leaders. Rabbi Ya’acov Gabriel
will open the evening with Ma’ariv, followed by
the soul-full musical ensemble: Lev Friedman,
Benyamin Lichtenstein and Akiva the Believer.
The evening will be hosted by Rabbi David Ingber
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HAHN & Shoshana Jedwab | Cheney Hall
Come bring your open voices, dancing socks and
clapping hands for an evening of rocking Hebrew
chant like you have never experienced before.
Kirtan is call-and-response, devotional chant
originally developed in India. It is considered the
highest form of yoga - a technology which
overcomes dualism by heightening participation,
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communal feeling and direct connection with the
Divine. It is at once contemplative, ecstatic - and
most of all - playfully improvised. Join the Kirtan
Rabbi, Andrew Hahn, -- with percussionist
Shoshana Jedwab -- for an evening of music,
medicine and fun that you won't forget.
Rabbi Andrew
Hahn, Ph.D., is
known as both
the Kirtan
Rabbi and —
depending
which phone
booth he
emerges from
— also as the
Tai Ch'i Rabbi. He has pioneered Kirtan in the
Jewish world, offering both communal call-andresponse chant “in-concerts” and meditation
seminars around the country. His two CDs —
Kirtan Rabbi: Live! And Achat Sha’alti — are
available in the shuk.
Two new CDs are in production and
will be released shortly; you will be
able to co-create it live this evening!
2. WEAVING THE GENERATIONS:
Renewing the Flow of
Intergenerational Connectivity
| Lakeside Center | We are connected to those
who have walked before us and those who will
walk after us. The fabric of multi-generational
community has become frayed by modernity,
inhibiting the experience of living as a web of
Intergenerational community. We stand at the
threshold of a Great
Turning where a
healthy future
depends on the ability
for human societies to
recognize the power
of the village and the centrality of
intergenerational community to planetary
prosperity.
How do we renew and revitalize our connectivity
to all of our relations? Spend a powerful evening
of exploring, witnessing and seeing through the
eyes of elders and youngers, opening hearts to the
wisdom of experience and the promise of new
horizons, to lessons from the ages and visions of
the future. Join Rabbi Shefa Gold, Aleph Executive
Director Joe Laur, Aleph Rabbinical student Mia
Miriam Cohen, and Wilderness Torah Founding
Director Zelig Golden to explore the power and
importance of weaving the generations through
sacred chant, face-to-face encounter, and deep
questions of the soul.
3. MUSICAL COFFEE
HOUSE
| Tent | Bask in the glow of
some of our own STARS and
enjoy a relaxed evening. Come
and listen to an extraordinary
variety of musicians, singers
and storytellers. The Coffee
House line-up features:
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Annie Matan Gilbert
Lisa Levine
Dan Gordon
Jessica Schwartz
Josef Kottler
Martin and Sheri Levson
Joel Segel
Reuven Goldfarb and
Shayndel Kahn
Lev Friedman will keep the evening hopping as the
emcee for the Coffee House. And afterwards,
don’t forget to:
JOIN THE JAM! Watch for a spontaneous
Jam session after Tuesday’s Coffee House - under
the tent! All are welcome.
WEDNESDAY, July 3
8:00pm | Cabaret | Tent (Starts with Ma’ariv @
7:30pm)
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Come to the Cabaret!
|Tent | ALEPH Kallah Cabaret features an
incredible variety of performing artists. Join us for
an exciting extravaganza highlighting some of the
top performers from the world of Jewish Renewal
featuring music, movement, and drama by:
 Fran Avni
 David Arfa
 Jack Gabriel
 Shefa Gold
 Shawn Zevit
 Debra Zaslow
 Yehudit Goldfarb
 Linda Hirschhorn
 Rebecca Kushner & Daniel Kempin
 Ilan Glazer, and
 Akiva the Believer
The evening’s eloquent emcees will be David and
Debra Zaslow.
THURSDAY, July 4
July 4 Event Schedule
8:00pm | Three Festive Events All of these events
begin at 8:00pm, so you have to CHOOSE:
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‘Streaming Shabbaat’ | Cheney Hall | A
modern dance performance by
Selmadanse, featuring Joanie Block and
dancers.
‘The Real Me’ | Tent | Jewish Rocker
Naomi Less
Searching for G-d in a Magic Shop | The
Cheshire Community Room | Arthur
Kurzweil
July 4 Event Descriptions
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1. STREAMING SHABBAAT
| Cheney | Modern Dance Performance by
SELMADANSE featuring Joanie Block and Dancers
Stories from Talmud, the Holocaust and Joanie’s
own memory are the inspiration for her new
work-in-progress about the universal power of
light. This evening’s performance is a preview
show that will be performed this coming fall in
Cambridge and Newton MA.
The inspiration for tonight’s performance When
Boston based choreographer Joanie Block was
diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1995, her
husband Sandy wanted to send her into surgery
with a gift that would calm and assure her of her
family’s presence. The gift he offered was an
image of the four of them around the Shabbat
dinner table, still, silent, holding hands, a circle of
energy. Joanie succumbed to anesthesia,
summoned the image, and let its light stream in.
2. THE REAL ME
| Tent | Performance
by rocker Naomi Less.
Naomi will perform
selections from her
album "The Real Me," a
tour through her own
personal wrestling with
self-worth, theology
and being herself, and
interact with her audience through challenging
questions about identity and Judaism. With
Naomi, you can sing along as you contemplate
meaning behind the lyrics. Naomi Less engages,
enlightens and empowers worldwide
audiences through concerts, worship and
educational workshops and training. Songwriter.
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Activist. Rocker. Worship leader. Trainer.
Educator.
3. SEARCHING FOR G-D IN A
MAGIC SHOP with Arthur Kurzweil
| Cheshire | Join
Arthur Kurzweil, a
member of the
Society of American
Magicians, as he
explores some of the
most profound ideas
of Jewish theology
while performing a
bunch of rather cool
magic tricks.
Audience Feedback Everyone who saw him was
enthralled with his wit, wisdom & charismatic
stage presence. He gave the entire event a 'buzz',
a positive vibe which resulted in our most
successful event to date." -Este Stimler, London
Shabbat Evening Events are listed in the Shabbat
Section of the Program.
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Kids Programming Overview @ Kids Kallah
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Kids Programming Overview
Shalom! Hello!
Welcome to Kids Kallah 2013, where your children will make memories
to last a Jewish lifetime. In this section of the program booklet, you’ll
find an overview schedule of events so you can plan your week,
descriptions of activities, and all the tachlis /logistics you could want concerning the programming planned
for this fun-filled and action packed week.
Logistical Overview
Location, Location, Location!
There are four important locations for Kids at
Kallah.
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Kids Kallah meets during the day at the
Fitzwater Center (upstairs). It is centrally
located, close to the dining room and the
dorms. The Pre-B’nai group will also meet
there during the day. (# on the map)
Pre-school Kallah will meet in the
Mountainview Lounge. Mountainview is
one of the dorms surrounding the softball
field. (# on the map)
The Bechira Teen Program will meet in
Marcucella 114. Marcucella is adjacent to
the Dining Room. (# on the map)
Evening & Shabbat Childcare will take
place in the the clubhouse near the
Bubble. (# on the map)
Program Overview
ORIENTATION An orientation program will be
held at 2:00pm on Monday. Meet the instructors
and get a taste of the fun your kids are going to be
having all week. Remember to bring $15.00 for
each Abayudaya kippah you would like to
purchase!
WEEKDAY ACTIVITIES begin 15 min before and
end 15 min after adult class time. The week will
focus on the Abayudaya, a Jewish community of
2,000 located in Mbale, Uganda. During the
afternoons, the kids will be at the lake, so
swimwear and boating gear are de rigueur.
In addition to Kids Kallah, Fran Avni will offer an
intergenerational music experience. After lunch,
kids and adults together will sing together to
create the first-ever "ALWAYS ROOM FOR MORE
CHOIR.” For the young of heart and spirit.
EVENING CHILDCARE is an informal time for kids
to gather and play during the adult’s evening
activities. We also have hall monitors for sleeping
children, but staff must be notified in advance.
Please see the detailed schedule on the next
page.
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Kids Kallah Shabbat Activities
Schedule for Weekday
& Evening Childcare
Location: Fitzwater Center
Monday, July 1: ORIENTATION
1:15pm – 2:00pm
2:00pm - 3:00pm
3:00pm
5:00pm
7:00pm - 10:00pm
7:00pm - 9:00pm
10:00pm - 11:30pm
Parents & Teens Bechira Orientation (Marcucella 114)
Parents' and Kids' Orientation (*bring $15 for each Abayudaya kippah)
Kids’ Kallah Program Begins - Parents leave for Adult Orientation
Kids join parents at Adult Orientation
Kids activities and babysitting in the hallways for sleeping children
Teens bring gear for gear check (Marcucella 114)
Hallway monitors for children in their rooms
Tuesday-Wednesday, July 2-3
8:00am - 8:30am
8:45am
9:30am
11:45am
12:45pm – 2:00pm
2:10pm
5:45pm
7:00pm - 10:00pm
10:00pm - 11:30pm
Teen Send-Off Circle (in front of Peterson Hall; inside in case of rain)
Drop off kids and sign in for morning
Teens head out! (Tuesday)
Parents sign kids out and enjoy lunch together
Intergenerational Choir with Fran Avni (Cheney)
Drop off kids and sign in for afternoon (with swim/boat gear)
Sign out kids and enjoy dinner
Thursday, July 4
8:00am - 8:30am
8:45am
11:45am
12:45pm - 2:00pm
2:10pm
5:45pm
7:00pm - 10:00pm
10:00pm - 11:30pm
Pre-B'nai Send-Off Circle (in front of Peterson Hall; inside in case of rain)
Parents sign kids out and enjoy lunch together
Drop off kids and sign in for afternoon (with swim/boat gear)
Sign out kids and enjoy dinner
Friday, July 5
8:45am
11:45am
12:30pm – 1:15pm
12:45pm – 1:15pm
Sign kids out and enjoy lunch together
Pre-B'nai and Teen Return Ceremony (in front of Peterson Hall; inside in case of rain)
Sunday, July 7
9:15am
10:00am
Sign in for Kids’ Kallah final circle at Fitzwater Center
Join parents for Closing Ceremonies in Large Tent
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Kids Programming Overview @ Kids Kallah
KIDS SHABBAT is a fun and
joyous time. It begins with a Children’s Mikveh at
the lake, moves into a spirited Abayudaya-style
Kabbalat Shabbat with drumming, dance and
song, and then, to share in the entire community’s
Shabbat walk where they kids will be eagerly
collecting tzedeka for the Abayudaya Orphan
Education Fund.
Shabbat morning will bring yet another
Abayudaya-style Family Shabbat Davennen. The
children will use their own Art Scrolled Torah,
handcrafted cover and yad (pointer). Parents and
the greater community are most welcome to
attend. Finally, Kids Kallah Shabbat will culminate
in wonderful performances:
“The Story of Kintu and the Journeys of the
Children of Israel” Filled with music and the songs
of the Abayudaya, “The Story of Kintu and the
Journeys of the Children of Israel” combines an
Ugandan folktale with the double parashot
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Mattot/Massei, and children’s own words, as we
learn about our own journeys and the promises
we make along the way.
Illustration: "Kintu, who lived alone with his cow" From The
King of the Snakes by Rosetta Baskerville.
The first Kallah Intergenerational "AWAYS ROOM
FOR MORE CHOIR!” will perform the songs and
rhythms they have been practicing all week.
And…finally, the Pre-B’nais and Teens will bring
their Sharings from the Wilderness, where we will
be honored to hear about and witness the changes that
these young people have gone through and be inspired
by the wisdom that they will share.
Detailed Shabbat schedule on the next page
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Kids Kallah Shabbat Activities Descriptions
Schedule for Shabbat
& Evening Childcare
Integrated Parents and Kids Shabbat Schedule is in the ADULT Shabbat Section
Friday, July 5
8:45am
11:45am
12:30pm – 1:20pm
12:45pm – 1:15pm
1:20pm
3:00pm
4:30pm
5:30pm
6:00pm – 6:30pm
6:30pm
7:00 pm – 10:00pm
10:00pm – 11:30pm
Sign kids out and enjoy lunch together
Intergenerational Choir with Fran Avni (Fitzwater)
Pre-B'nai and Teen Return Ceremony (in front of Peterson Hall; inside in case of rain)
Sign kids in (Children bring Shabbat Clothing & swim/boat gear)
Children’s Mikveh (led by Rivkah Coburn)
Kids’ Kallah Abayudaya Kabbalat Shabbat (Parents please join us - Cheshire)
Kids’ Kallah walks to Shabbat Walk to set up tzedakah Table
Kids invite Shabbat Walkers to contribute tzedakah to support Abayudaya Orphan
Education in Mbale, Uganda
Babysitting Staff walks kids to the dining hall for dinner (parents help kids settle in)
Saturday, July 6
9:15am
9:30am – 11am
11:45pm – noon
1:15pm
1:30pm
2:30pm
3:45pm
7:00pm – 10:00pm
10:00pm – 11:30pm
Sign-In (Highly recommend that you attend service with your child!)
ABAYUDAYA-STYLE FAMILY SHABBAT DAVENNEN (Cheshire)
Check out and eat lunch promptly!
Check-in for Theater Performance: Main Tent
~ Be sure to be on time as we are doing a DRESS REHEARSAL for the show ~
Bechira Teen Program Gathers (Marcucella 114)
ALL KID & TEEN GROUPS PERFORMANCE
Babysitting/childcare continues till 5:45pm
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Shabbat Programming
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The Gift of the Sabbath
...the seventh day is a time of otherworldly freedom in
which we are able to break free of the walls that
constrain us during the six days of the week. In holy
time we step outside of ourselves, beyond the
‘anokhiyut’—the selfhood--of ordinary life, and we are
able to experience the ultimate freedom of
consciousness.
-Eitan Fishbane, interpretation of
Sefat Emet in The Sabbath Soul
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Shabbat Programming
2013 ALEPH Kallah Shabbat Schedule
Friday July 5th
1:30pm — 3:30pm
3:00pm — 5:30pm
3:00pm — 3:30pm
4:00pm — 4:40pm
4:50pm — 5:30pm
4:00pm — 5:30pm
4:30pm — 5:30pm
5:30pm — 10:00pm
6:00pm — 6:45pm
6:30pm — 6:50pm
7:00pm — 8:00pm
8:10pm — 9:30pm
9:45pm — 12:00pm
10:00pm — 11:30pm
Afternoon Classes Finish
Mikveh
Children’s Mikveh
Women’s Mikveh
Men’s Mikveh
Moving into Shabbos Time (6 Workshop Choices-see below)
Kids’ Kallah Abayudaya-Style Kabbalat Shabbat
Evening Childcare
Shabbat Walk Kids’ Kallah Dinner (Parents invited)
Kabbalat Shabbat (3 Choices-see below)
1st Meal of Shabbos/Dinner
Oneg Delights (4 Choices-see below)
Dorm Patrol
Saturday July 6th
9:15am — 11:00am
9:30am — noon
11:00am — noon
noon — 1:30pm
1:30pm -- 2:30pm
2:30pm — 3:45pm
3:45pm — 5:45pm
4:15pm — 5:45pm
5:30pm — 7:00pm
7:00pm — 10:00pm
8:00pm – 9:25pm
9:25pm – 9:45pm
9:45pm – 11:30pm
9:45pm — midnight
10:00pm — 11:30pm
Kids Kallah Abayudaya-Style Family Shabbat (ALL WELCOME)
Shabbat Shacharit - 4 Choices (see below)
Morning Childcare
nd
2 Meal of Shabbos/Lunch
Basherte Blessing Circles
Kids’ Kallah Performance, Intergenerational Choir, & Reflections from PreB’nais & Teens
Afternoon Childcare
Shabbat/Mincha Workshops (10 choices-see below)
Seudat Shlishit 3rd Meal of Shabbos/Dinner
Evening Childcare
Music and More – Linda Hirschhorn’s Choir Performance & A Taste of the Klezwoods
High and Holy Havdalah with Cantor Shulamit Wise Fairman
ALEPH Live Auction, Raffle drawing, and the Klezwoods
Bookstore/Giftshop re-opens
Dorm Patrol
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Shabbat Programming
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Preparing for Shabbos
Time Range and
Workshop Series
Title
Segment
Time /
Title
Description
Leader/
Location
3:00pm — 5:30pm
Mikveh
3:00pm
Children's Mikveh
4:00pm 4:40pm
(promptly)
Women's Mikveh Let it Go! Come participate in this
powerful ritual of release and renewal to open yourself even
more to our beautiful shabbat together. Women and girls of
all body shapes and sizes are welcome. We’ll meet at the
beach. Swimwear optional.
Rivkah
Coburn
Andrea
CohenKeiner
4:50pm5:30pm
(promptly)
Men's Mikveh The men's mikveh will be a time of release
and renewal. We'll let go of all those internal forces that
could prevent us from fully entering Shabbat. At the same
time we'll begin to prepare ourselves to receive all the magic
and majesty of the Queen who awaits our arrival.
R David
Zaslow
Music for
Monotone
s
You too can sing! An opportunity for non-singers to improve
their skills and instantly experience the joy of making music!
Joyfully Find, Tone and Tune your Inner and Outer Voice.
Turn Groans, Moans and Drones into Making Musical Tones.
Chant with your ‘inner cantor.’ Fun, musical exercises are
designed to find your very own 'key', and improve listening,
vocal and rhythmic skills using breath, clapping, assorted
rhythms, echoes and chants. From singing in the shower to
chanting on the bima, Fran's gentle, humorous approach to
painless pitch-matching may soon have you ready to join in
any community chorus.
This workshop introduces gentle meditative exercises in a
Jewish context to connect us to the Divine Source of Being
through our bodies. Its standing postures are drawn from
energetic traditions including t’ai chi, qigong and yoga.
Fran Avni/
Cheney
To enter Shabbat, the Kabbalists say, is to enter holy ground,
to come home to the divinity in ourselves and others. It is a
day of deep and joyous transformation (of time, divinity, and
person) and a day of multi-tiered tikkun or restoration of
relationships, ecosystem, and soul. In this workshop, we will
briefly study kabbalistic texts and will learn (and do!) key
practices for more fully entering this day.
R Elliot K
Gisnburg/
Petrocelli
114
One of the hightlights
of Kallah is to begin to
enter the Shabbos
space though the
experience of mikveh.
This year we are lucky
to have “living waters”
right here on campus
Each mikveh
experience (except for
the children) is clothing
optional – please
respect the exact times
of each so there is no
overlap. Please meet
at the beach area next
to the Lakeside
Conference Center
4:00pm — 5:30pm
Moving into Shabbos
Time
Moving
Through
the Tree of
Life
Holy
Ground:
Entering
the
Mystical
Sabbath
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Sue
Gurland/
Monadnoc
k Lounge
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Shabbat Programming
Word Play
with
Wacky
Hebrew
Language
Roots:
From the
Earthly to
the
Heavenly
Yoga
Shalom:
Embodime
nt of
Prayer
Dancing
with the
Divine
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Abayudaya
-style
Kabbalat
Shabbat
6:00pm - 6:45pm
Shabbat
Walk
This workshop will focus on curious Hebrew language roots
and their permutations. After roughly two thousand years as
a language of liturgy and literature, Hebrew miraculously
became a spoken language again. This revival was inspired
by the vision and dedication of Eliezer Ben Yehuda We will
discuss frequent ancient roots that relate to liturgy.
Dr. Orna
Ariel
Lenchner/
Pappas
212
Yoga Shalom presents a unique experience that brings
together body, mind, and spirit. Combining the two powerful
spiritual disciplines of Jewish worship and yoga practice, Yoga
Shalom leads to deeper understandings of both. The practice
will begin with Kirtan Chant and the deepening of the breath.
We will continue with a one hour Yoga Practice which
mirrors the shacharit service and embodies each prayer in a
deeply spiritual and physical way. We end with stretching,
deep relaxation and a healing circle. Open your heart, quiet
your mind and restore your spirit with Yoga Shalom.
Come and experience the beauty of creating our prayers
from our own dance. Paulette will teach some basic dance
processes as well as guide us in movement meditation. We
will focus on Ruach- the Breath/Spirit- as the organic
foundation of our dance. You will have the opportunity to
more deeply express your sacred, creative process. From the
dance/movement we will explore the emergence of original
prayer, in written form.
Join the children celebrating the beginning of Shabbat
Abayudaya-style - with drumming, dance and song, guided by
Lorne Mallin and Rivkah Coburn, who have spent the week
teaching the children about the Abayudaya, a Jewish
community of 2,000 located in Mbale, Uganda, through the
arts woven into this joyful entree into Shabbat. Parents - who
will bless and be blessed by their children - and others
seeking blessings - are most welcome to join in!
Lisa
Levine/
Petrocelli
315
Start in front of Peterson Hall. Come walk along with me,
you will see, the best is yet to be… Let go of the week,
welcome the Shabbat queen into your soul. Be inspired as
songs weave themselves into your Shabbat consciousness;
reflect on your kavannah for this Shabbat. Commune with
friends as we walk the campus in a different way than we
have all week and transition into Shabbat time. There will
be interesting stops along the way. Come see what is to
be…
 At the beginning of the journey the Kids’ Kallah
children will be eagerly tzedekah for the Abayudaya
Orphan Education Fund. The Abayudaya are a
Jewish community in Uganda. Checks may be made
out to: P’nai Or of Portland Abayudaya Orphan Fund
and are tax deductible.
Kallah
Shabbat
Planners
&
Communit
y
Paulette
RochelleLevy/
Dance
Studio
Lorne
Mallin and
Rivkah
Coburn/
Cheshire
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Kids Kallah
Dinner
(Parents invited)
Under
canopy
outside of
Dining
Room
Mikveh Leaders
Coburn’s bio under the Kids Kallah Shabbat Activities section
See Rabbi Cohen-Keiner’s bio under Wednesday’s weekly davennen section
See David Zaslow’s bio under Tuesday’s weekly davennen section
See Rivkah
Moving into Shabbos Time Workshop Leaders
Avni
Fran
has been an acclaimed Jewish recording artist, singer/songwriter, arranger and producer for
more than 30 years. Her delight is getting everyone to sing - and be - in harmony.
Gurland
Sue
is a retired acupuncturist, t’ai chi teacher and spiritual director, passionate about
Jewish learning and spirituality. She created Moving Through the Tree of Life to bring a meaningful new
form of embodied spiritual practice to the Jewish community.
Ginsburg
Elliot K.
is a long-time teacher in Jewish Renewal: a professor of Jewish Mysticism,
founding rabbi of the Pardes Hannah minyan and member of the ALEPH Smicha Program Va’ad . He is the
author of Studies on Jewish Mysticism, The Kabbalistic Shabbat, and Spiritual Practice. Reb Elliot seeks to
combine intellectual engagement with a devotional stance.
Lenchner
Dr. Orna Ariel
is a Hebrew/English reading and learning disabilities specialist in California.
The author of Kadimah and Zman Likro, she pioneered novel approaches to teaching Hebrew reading.
Levine
Lisa
is a nationally known composer, poet, author and worship artist and the creator of Yoga
Shalom published by URJ Press. She is a JBC featured author and her compositions are sung in
congregations around the world.
Rochelle-Levy
Paulette
, a psychotherapist, artist, dancer, and graduate of the ALEPH Davenning
Leadership Training Institute. Paulette’s books include: Dancing with the Divine: Prayers & Meditations
for Movement & Stillness, and You Shall Be a Blessing and the CD: Medicine Words.
Abayudaya Workshop Leaders
Mallin
Lorne
, of Vancouver, B.C., leader of Chanting & Chocolate, graduate of the ALEPH Kol Zimra
Chant Leadership program, lived in Uganda for 14 months and volunteered in the Abayudaya schools. He
continues his involvement with the Abayudaya through raising funds for their programs. Rivkah
Coburn, of Portland, Oregon, is an Ordained Maggidah and Gabba'it by Maggidah Debra and Rabbi
David Zaslow, a teacher and founder of Tree of Life Practices which offers Aleph-Bet Yoga, B’nai Mitzvah
and Jewish education to children and adults in P’nai Or of Portland as well as other local congregations.
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Shabbat Programming
Kabbalat Shabbat Services 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Theme
Style
Lively up
Yourself: A
Friday
Night
Celebration
of One
Heart
He'Galay
Na: I Really
Want To
Know You!
Through
the Gates
of Shabbat
Service Locati
Leader on
Each Kabbalat Shabbat is an opportunity to go into holy, happy, mystic
space. By blending laughter and gravitas, melodies and silences, we are
able to make peace with the week that was, and "Le Da'at et Hashem
B'Simcha", to know G!d in Celebration. Come to this Service if you'd like a
sweet completion to the week's classes, with a singing, listening, dancing
and praying community. Kabbalat Shabbat is for "moving into Shabbos
Time," in the words of Rabbi Rayzel Raphael. Come and add who you are
to it.... so we can feel what rebbe Bob Marley, zt"l, once called having "One
Love One Heart."
This Kabbalat Shabbat service weaves and incorporates a traditional
Shabbat evening service with chanting, silence, call/response and words of
Torah. The service will feel familiar and different all at once. It is patterned
on the music and 'vibe' of a typical Romemu service. The intention of the
service is to practice the Presence of G-d, the One called by many names
though known through One Taste. Please join us as we taste and see that
G-d is good.
R Jack
Gabriel
Peterson
Lawn
(rain loc:
Cheshire
Comm.
Room)
R David
Ingber
Tent
We will walk, dance, and journey joyously and truthfully through the Gates
of Shabbat: The Gate of Song, The Gate of Wonder, The Gate of Freedom,
The Gate of Delight, The Gate of Community, The Gate of Unity, and finally,
The Gate of Celebration. We will accomplish this journey (G!d-willing)
through Chant, meditative niggun, ecstatic dance, sweet yearning, deep
silence and shining Torah. This will be a service of the Heart as we gather
up the holy work of this special week and offer it all up Lich’vod (in honor
of) Shabbat.
R Shefa
Gold (art
by Jackie
Olenick)
Cheney
Hall
Kabbalat Shabbat Service Leader Biographies
Gabriel
Rabbi Jack
loves to be around great prayer leaders, which is why he studied and got Smicha from
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. He's also davvened with Reb Shlomo Carlebach,zt"l, Thich Nat Hanh, the
Monasrtryzsker Rebbe, zt"l, and the Jerry Garcia Band. He has lead services from Capetown to Toronto, and
from Woodstock to Tel Aviv.
Gold
Rabbi Shefa
is the director of ALEPH’s C-DEEP, The Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic
Practice. Shefa composes and performs spiritual music, has produced ten albums, She is the author of Torah
Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land, and In the Fever of Love: An Illumination of the Song of Songs,
and The Magic of Hebrew Chant .
Olenick
Jackie
creates Judaic illuminations in several mediums based upon her favorite psalms and
prayers as well as personalized ketubot. She also has created a new line of spiritual jewelry, including her
unique Shema v’ahavta pendant, which is now at the request of Reb Zalman, is being produced as a mezuzah.
Ingber
Rabbi David
is the Founder /Spiritual Director of Romemu Spiritual Center in NYC. He has studied
at Yeshiva University, Beit Midrash L’Torah, Yeshivat Chaim Berlin, Yeshivat Chovovei Torah Rabbinical School,
and New York University where he studied philosophy, psychology and religion. Newsweek/Daily Beast
recognized Rabbi David as one of the Top 50 Rabbis in America.
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Shabbat – Friday Evening Programming
Time
Title
Description
Leader/
Location
8:10pm
–
9:30pm
First
Meal of
Shabbos
Festive Shabbos Dinner
Fieldhouse
9:45pm
–
midnight
Oneg
Delights
Rhythms
and Chants
of the Tent
of Miriam –
a Hands-On
Frame
Drum
Experience
The workshop is open to men and women, all levels. Each
participant will receive a custom-designed handout with
drum notation for the rhythms taught. Participants will be
encouraged to bring these drumming skills back to his/her
community and use them in private meditation and to
accompany communal prayer. Frame Drums will be
provided for everyone. Participants are welcome to learn
on their own drums as well.
Miriam
(Marla) Leigh
Goldstein&
Ellen
Shapiro/
Tent
The Jewish
Gospel
Experience
Our voices will join in song to experience Lisa's original
Jewish Gospel music which combines her 25 years in the
cantorate with her work uniting interfaith choirs in
community programming. We will warm up our voices and
learn a variety of songs from Social Justice to liturgical
gems. You'll walk away with a packet of music that you
can share. Bring an open heart and work with Lisa to
create a truly unique Jewish Gospel Experience!
“The whole world is waiting to sing the song of Shabbos!”
So come and sing, bring an instrument if you wish, bring a
song to share if you like, and let’s continue to celebrate
Shabbos with a wide variety of music. We’ll do some
Shlomo tunes, some niggunim, some Israeli songs, some
traditional and contemporary Z’miros, and we’ll also
probably do some Beatles, Paul Simon, Jack Gabriel, and
maybe (if we get silly) faux-Russian folksongs.
Come taste the deliciousness of Shabbat with a feast of
stories. Join Devorah Zaslow and holy Maggidim from
around the country to hear tales that will make you laugh,
make you cry, and make you delight in the essence of
Shabbat.
Lisa Levine/
Lakeside
Center
Songs for
Shabliss
Shabbat
Storytelling
Martin
Levson/
Cheney
Devorah
Gordon
Zaslow &
Friends/
Cheshire
Shabbat – Friday Evening Workshop Leaders Biographies
Goldstein
Miriam (Marla) Leigh
is a leading specialist in frame drums. She performs worldwide and
facilitates workshops and clinics at percussion festivals and spirituality retreats, including Sacred Music
Festival Los Angeles, Tambouri Mundi Festival in Germany, and the Bali Arts Festival.
Gordon Zaslow
Devorah
has taught storytelling at Southern Oregon University for twenty
years. Her performances and workshops include Aleph Kallah, Ruach Ha Aretz, CAJE, and National
Storytelling Festival. Her CD, Return Again, features Jewish stories of healing and transformation. She and
Rabbi David Zaslow run a Maggid-training program.
See Lisa
Levine’s biography under Tuesday weekday davennen section.
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Levson
Cantor Martin
is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College, and serves Sinai Temple in Springfield,
MA. He believes that a big group of Jews singing songs together is one of the very best ways to celebrate
Shabbos.
Shapiro
Ellen
(workshop assistant) - is a hand drum enthusiast who plays percussion in several venues
including the community band at Romemu, Manhattan’s Renewal community.
Shabbat – Saturday Morning Services
Theme
Style
Service
Leader
Location
Riding the
Waves
Ride the waves of a traditional Shabbat morning service – its intent,
rhythm, and emotional tone. Discover its beauty, humor and grace,
brought out by complementing traditional styles with new music,
contemporary poetry, and spiritual reflections. Whether you are
already in love with traditional prayers, long mystified by the challenge
of being moved by them, or a complete newbie, you will find a place in
this service.
R Laura
Duhan
Kaplan &
Charles
Kaplan
Cheney
Moving
Into Our
Land and
Our Lives
In this week of Mattot/Massei we'll journey together through some
necessary stages of moving into our own land/lives as responsible
beings. Join a traditional/renewal (paradoxical?) joyous, musical,
deep, reflective worship and study as we support each other on the
way. Drumming will be integrated right into the prayers (some of
which. were composed by Holy Drummer Akiva The Believer). Bring
your drum and enter into holy space in a new way!
Andrea
CohenKeiner &
Akiva the
Believer
Lakeside
Center
Awakenin
g to the
Beauty of
the Day
Following the structure of the traditional Shabbat prayer service, we
will bring prayers and our own souls alive in celebration of Shabbat
and our week at Kallah. Both contemplative and interactive
approaches will be used to bringing depth and breadth to awakening
to the beauty of the day with new and traditional melodies, reflection,
chant, Bibliodramatic Torah learning and more! R Shawn Zevit, Mia
Miriam Cohen, Hazzan Shulamit Wise Fairman & Mitch Gordon
R Shawn
Zevit et al
Cheshire
Comm.
Room
A musical
Shabbat
morning
Join us for a musical Shabbat morning service that is an upbeat blend
of participatory t’fillot/prayers in Hebrew and English that we'll sing,
chant and “davven” together! We'll follow the traditional flow of
Jewish prayer using a version of the P'nai Or siddur, with sweet
inspirational teachings to amplify the themes of the prayers, and a
wow Torah service that gets everybody involved. Special Treat:
SpeakChorus will join us for their awesome spoken and sung Dvar
Torah AND it's the Kallah Shabbat celebrating "4th of July" so we'll
chant our famous Declaration of Independence Haftara, WOW!
Rabbi
Marcia
Prager,
Hazzan Jack
Kessler &
Speak
Chorus
Tent
9:30 –
11:30am
Saturday morning the children will once again celebrate
Shabbat Abayudaya-style with drumming, dance and song that builds
to the Torah service and the double portion Matot-Masei, meaning
"Journeys of Tribes." The Abayudaya are a Jewish community of 2,000
located in Mbale, Uganda. The children, having both studied about the
Abayudaya and the parshot this week through movement and art, will
Lorne Mallin
and Rivkah
Coburn
In front of
Fitzwater
(rain loc:
Petrocelli
114)
Abayuday
a-style
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share highlights of their own "journeys" and how they connect into the
journeys of the Israelites. They will use their own Art Scrolled Torah,
handcrafted cover and yad. Again, we strongly urge parents to attend
with their children. The greater community is most welcome to
attend.
Shabbat – Saturday Morning Service Leaders
Coburn
Rivkah
, of Portland, Oregon, is an Ordained Maggidah and Gabba'it by Maggidah Debra and
Rabbi David Zaslow, a teacher and founder of Tree of Life Practices which offers Aleph-Bet Yoga, B’nai
Mitzvah and Jewish education to children and adults in P’nai Or of Portland as well as other local
congregations.
Cohen
Mia Miriam
brings a deep earth awareness to her love of Jewish tradition. She has served in
spiritual leadership with ALEPH’s Kol Zimra (Devotional Chant training) and Wilderness Torah. Mia is now a
rabbinical student with ALEPH and program director at Or Shalom in Vancouver.
Cohen-Kiener
Andrea
is a rabbi, farmer and story teller. She is in residence at the Rochester Folk Art
Guild in rural NY. Andrea is dedicated to peaceful communication technologies, living simply and singing with
others. She is the spiritual leader of Congregation P'nai Or in central CT.
Gordon
Mitch
is a Temple Drummer, Jewish meditation leader, and professional drummer and
percussionist. He has been part of prayer and chanting services, has led Holy Drumming programs, and is
launching an advanced program for drummers in sacred settings this summer. Mitch is also producer and
host for Shirim, Jewish music radio.
Kaplan
Kaplan
Rabbi Laura Duhan
and Charles
are creative Renewal rabbis from traditional
backgrounds and musicians with a love of Jewish world music.
Kessler
Hazzan Jack
has been described as a one-man force of nature in Jewish music. He was ordained
as a Cantor at JTS, and had a twenty-year congregational career. He directs the ALEPH Cantorial Program, and
two touring ensembles: Atzilut – Concerts for Peace, and Klingon Klezmer.
Mallin
Lorne
of Vancouver, B.C., leader of Chanting & Chocolate, graduate of ALEPH’s Kol Zimra Chant
Leadership program, lived in Uganda for 14 months and volunteered in the Abayudaya Jewish community.
He continues his involvement with the Abayudaya through raising funds for their programs.
Prager
Rabbi Marcia
is Director and Dean of Ordination Programs for ALEPH, and rabbi of P'nai Or of
Philadelphia, PA. She is the author of The Path of Blessing, co-creator of the ALEPH Davvenen Leadership
Training Institute, and creator of the unique P'nai Or Siddurim for Shabbat as well as other innovative
approaches to prayer and liturgy.
Wharton
Akiva The Believer
is a Master Drummer helping to bring drumming back into Jewish prayer.
Akiva accompanies a who’s-who of Jewish singers and prayer leaders. Akiva received smicha as Drummer
from Reb Zalman.
Wise Fairman
Hazzan Shulamit
has served ALEPH affiliate Kehilla Community Synagogue in the San
Francisco Bay Area since 2005. Creating sacred space to teach and engage the spiritual practice of nigunim is
Zevit
Rabbi Shawn Israel
is a congregational and organizational consultant, rabbi of Congregation
T’Chiyah of Detroit, author, spiritual director, liturgist, recording artist, member of the VAAD of the ALEPH
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Ordination and Hashpa’ah Programs, and co-director of the Davennen Leadership Training Institute. her great
joy and passion.
Shabbat – Saturday Afternoon Programming
Time Range and
Workshop Series
Title
Description
Leader &
Location
12:30 – 1:30
Elat Chayyim: what
Was, Is, and Will Be
Lunch N Learn. A facilitated discussion about the history and future of
Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality…How Renewal is renewing
individuals, families, and communities at Hazon's Isabella Freedman
Jewish Retreat Center.
12:30 – 1:30
Basherte Blessing Circles. Whether you are seeking your basherte
and are open to a blessing, or whether you have found your basherte
and want to express your gratitude…this is a Kallah moment not to be
missed! Join Rosalie Eisen as she guides both groups in a touching and
powerful experience of sharing blessings….
Share in the bounty of the next generation!
Adam 'Segulah'
Sher/
In Dining Room
near door to
outside
Rosalie Eisen/
Peterson Lawn
(rain loc:
Lakeside Center)
2:30pm — 3:45pm
“The Story of Kintu
and the Journeys of
the Children of Israel”
A Theatrical
Performance by
&
the Intergenerational
Choir with Reflections
from the Pre-B’nai and
Teen Wilderness
Experiences
4:15 –
5:45p
m
Embodying
the
Kabbalistic
Tree of Life
Through
Meditation &
Movement
“The Story of Kintu and the Journeys of the Children of Israel”
combines an Ugandan folktale with the double parashot
Mattot/Massei, and children’s own words, as we learn about our own
journeys and the promises we make along the way. Filled with music
and the songs of the Abayudaya, the story follows Nambi, daughter of
the King of the Cloud Kingdom, as she follows the rainbow to Earth
and a new life. Similarly, the Children of Israel journey towards their
new life away from Mitzrayim and towards the Plains of Moab.
Stage Director Batya Podos, of Portland, OR
Art Director Judith Hankin of Eugene, OR
Music Director Lorne Mallin of Vancouver, B.C.
Hear Kallah’s wonderful intergenerational "AWAYS ROOM FOR MORE
CHOIR!” Kids and adults together have been practicing all week..join
them as they share songs and rhythms in this choir led by Fran Avni.
Sharings from the Wilderness:
Hear the voices of our teens who just spent the week having a unique
experience in the wilderness (along with the pre-B’nai Mitzvah group
who joined them for one night). Witness the changes that these
young people have gone through and be inspired by the wisdom that
they will share. This is not just for parents! It is for everyone who
cares about and wants to support our young people.
Directly experience the Divine within ourselves and beyond. We’ll
connect with our own bodyheartmindspirit through the Kabbalistic
Tree of Life. Using guided visualization and self-directed movement,
we’ll open ourselves to experience Mekor HaHayyim (Hebrew for
Source of Life) and the 10 Sefirot/Energy Centers of the Tree of Life.
Kids Kallah Staff/
Big Tent
Fran Avni
Teen & Pre-B’nai
Staff
R Jeff Foust/
Dance Studio
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Jewish
Community
Food Justice
as a Spiritual
Path
Letters of
Holiness
Meditative
Melodies for
Shabbos
Reb
Kalanymous
Kalman
Shapira's
Teachings -Sensing
Holiness;
Connecting
to our
Essence
Jewish
Sacred Dance
Playing for
the Sake of
Heaven
Deep
Ecumenism
in the Beit
Midrash
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The link between food and social justice is rooted in our tradition,
which instructs us to share our tables with the hungry, and to care for
the widow, the orphan and the stranger. And in our tradition there are
also profound connections among agriculture, ecology, food justice
and our relationship with the Divine. In this session we delve into
source texts, chevruta, chant, and dialogue to explore food justice as a
sacred spiritual path.
Rav Kook wrote that "the soul is filled with letters which are infused
with the light of life, full of knowledge and will, full of spiritual seeking
and full existence." Tradition teaches that the Hebrew letters were
used to create heaven and earth, with each letter being a unique
channel connecting the Infinite with the finite, the soul with its
Source. Learn to access the energy of Creation by embodying the
letters of your soul through the spiritual practice of Otiyot Hayyot, a
form of body prayer and moving meditation that integrates body,
heart, mind, and soul.
A “kumsitz” of (mostly) meditative music for Shabbat. Come and
experience a deep sense of Shabbat menucha (rest) as we sing and
chant a variety of old and new Shabbat songs. Songsheets with
transliteration will be provided; no Hebrew knowledge or musical
experience is necessary (other than a love of singing). Come and find
your inner sense of “Shabliss” as we join our voices together in song.
Reb Kalanymous Kalman Shapira in his second book, Sefer Derech
HaMelech (Book of the Royal Path) brings a beautiful teaching on
holiness and the structure and meaning of creation. During the high
point of shabbos, we'll read and be reminded of his teaching that kedusha/holiness and the many ways we sense it in our lives is
the live wire -- connecting us to Eyn Sof, our eternal essence.
Sherril Gilbert/
Petrocelli 101
Dance has been an expression of praise and celebration forever.
Forming a circle is as contemporary as it is ancient. Jewish sacred
dance is a form of tefillah (prayer) using one's whole being-body,
heart, mind, and soul. Through the dance a vessel of holiness, peace
and joy is created. With simple steps and the singing of Hebrew and
English sacred melodies the dancers enter a realm in which bodies,
hearts and souls move with and are moved by the Divine Blessed One.
No dance experience is needed, only a desire to explore and share the
landscape of the heart.
Bask in the ease of Shabbat. InterPlay is a simple system of short
forms done for the joy of doing them: tell a 30 second story, do a one
hand dance, give a gibberish blessing, make silly faces. Come immerse
yourself in this active, creative approach to unlocking the wisdom that
YOU hold in your own body.
Study Jewish texts through the lens of teachings from world wisdom
traditions such as Taoism, Islam, Hopi, Christian, and Ecology. As the
world is a commentary on Torah and the Torah is a commentary on
the world, looking at our traditional texts in a beit midrash
environment through the lens of the wider world's wisdom traditions
is a doorway into a Judaism that is deeply ecumenical and universalist
Latifa Berry
Kropf/
Cheshire
Comm.
Room
Yehudit
Goldfarb/
Petrocelli
315
Cantor Martin
Levson/ Cheney
Andrea Cohen
Keiner/
Petrocelli 108
Cassandra
Sagan/
Lakeside Center
Adam Sher/
Petrocelli 114
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in its mission and vision.
Jewish
Feminist
Thought... An
Artist's Book
& Discussion
The Healing
Heart of the
Story
Like Miriam wandering the desert with the Israelites, divining for
water, finding wells of rejuvenation for a parched peoples… Jewish
Feminists were and are diviners of thoughts, words, actions and
deeds. This book embraces many changes over 60 years including the
redefining of what feminism is and means to each generation that has
had the privilege of experiencing the evolution of Judaism through the
bold and brilliant excavations and reconstructions of feminist
theologians, scholars and everyday women. This book reflects the
ingenuity, grace, holy chutzpah and chesed that was and is Jewish
Feminism.
Jewish stories contain not only the wisdom of our people, but “story
medicine” for each us on the level of body, heart, mind and soul. We’ll
use visualization, movement, and small group exercises to deepen our
experience of the healing power of story.
Sandra Wortzel/
Pappas Hall
Room 212
Devorah Gordon
Zaslow/
Alumni Lounge
(Peterson Hall)
Shabbat – Saturday Afternoon Workshop Leaders
Theatrical Production leaders are described in the Kids Kallah section of the program.
Eisen
Rosalie
is a Program Officer for the Harold Grinspoon Foundation/PJ Library. She is a co-founder of
Basherte, an international network of workshops focusing on Jewish relationships; and is also active as
trained life and relationship coach. Rosalie holds a special smicha (ordination) as a Jewish Relationship
Counselor and Master of Blessings.
Foust
Rabbi Jeff
is a longtime student and teacher of embodied spirituality and Kabbalah. He also is the
Jewish Chaplain at Bentley University, and recently led a Global Satsang Teleconference on Teshuvah and the
Jewish way of aligning with Source.
Gilbert
Sherril
, M.A. Founder/spiritual leader of B'nai Or Montreal Community Shul; ordained Rabbinic
Chaplain, ordained Spiritual Director. Former Executive Director of the Food Security Network of
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Goldfarb
Yehudit
, Ph.D., Eshet Hazon, is a writer, photographer, healer, and teacher of Torah,
Kabbalah, T’ai Chi, and Otiyot Hayyot. A co-founder of the Aquarian Minyan, she now co-directs Maor HaLev
Center for Movement, Healing, and Language Arts in Tzfat.
Gordon Zaslow
Devorah
has taught storytelling at Southern Oregon University for twenty
years. Her performances and workshops include Aleph Kallah, Ruach Ha Aretz, CAJE, and National
Storytelling Festival. Her CD, Return Again, features Jewish stories of healing and transformation. She and
Rabbi David Zaslow run a Maggid-training program.
Cohen-Kiener
Andrea
is a rabbi, farmer and story teller. She is in residence at the Rochester Folk Art
Guild in rural NY. Andrea is dedicated to peaceful communication technologies, living simply and singing with
others. She is the spiritual leader of Congregation P'nai Or in central CT.
Latifa Berry
Kropf, is a founding member and lay leader of her renewal chavurah. She has been creating
and leading dance for over thirty years and has created dance materials for adult & children’s dance.
See Cantor Martin
Levson’s bio under Shabbat - Friday Evening Service Leaders.
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Sagan
Cassandra Zaharah
is a Maggid and InterPlay Leader, Poet, Teacher, and Songwriter, who employs
Sacred Play to empower others to access their own creative brilliance, tell their own stories, and find their
own embodied path through Torah and Life.
Adam 'Segulah'
Sher serves as Hazon's Director of Transformative Experiences, headquartered at Isabella
Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, CT. Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality, a program of
Hazon at Isabella Freedman, is a particular focus of his work and is very close to his heart.
Rabbinic Pastor Sandra
Wortzel Expressive Artist, integrates Judaism from a Four Worlds perspective,
Hashpa’ah, contemplative practices, art-making for growing one’s soul, and encouraging spiritual growth
through creativity and play.
Shabbat – Saturday Evening Programming & Havdalah Service
KALLAH Community Choir Performance, Klezwoods, Havdalah, & ALEPH
Live Auction
This combination event begins @ 8:00 PM (with Ma’ariv at 7:15) in the Tent
8:00 – 9:25
9:25 – 9:45
9:45 – 11:30
Music and More – Linda Hirschhorn’s Choir Performance & A Taste of the Klezwoods
High and Holy Havdalah with Cantor Shulamit Wise Fairman
ALEPHLive Auction, Raffle drawing, and then the Klezwoods tear up the tent!
Our final evening will be an inspiring culmination of the week’s learning, prayer, and play! You will be treated
to an evening of musical delights featuring Linda Hirschhorn’s famous Kallah Community Choir, and
Klezwoods, the Boston-based band with its ecumenical mix of traditional Klezmer Jewish dance music, laced
with a foot-stomping, genre-crossing array of world folk music.
We will bring Shabbat to an end with a high and holy Havdalah service led by Cantor Shulamit Wise Fairman.
After Havdalah, let your newly re-ignited light inspire your support for ALEPH. Come prepared to have fun
and bid at our live auction hosted by Joe Laur and Binah Block. A sampling of offerings that you might like to
leave Kallah with:
 A week at a timeshare almost anywhere in the world
 Mexican vacation getaway
 Meditation retreat with Jeff Roth
 San Diego Resort vacation
 2015 Kallah registration
 Marin County home stay
After the auction, let’s bring the house down with music and dancing to the klezmer-fusion of the
Klezwoods.
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Ordination Program Open House
Thursday during “The Rebbe is In” time-slot
Petrocelli Hall Room 114
Training Rabbis, Rabbinic Pastors, Cantors & Spiritual Directors
for the Global Jewish Community
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Torah Project:
Helping you build a community
of holy midrash tellers
What do you get when you mix text
study, midrash, commentary and poetry
with a bit of singing? Re-tellings of Bible
stories (midrash) that are fun and linked
to your community!
C-DEEP:
CENTER FOR DEVOTIONAL,
ENERGY & ECSTATIC PRACTICE
“Deep Explorations into the Treasures of Judaism”
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Chant Leaders Training
Ecstatic Meditation
Song of Songs Retreats
Scholar-in-Residence
Shabbatons
Community Building
Travel as Pilgrimage
and now...
Individual Spiritual Coaching!
A Project of ALEPH:
The Alliance for Jewish Renewal
Bookings, inquiries:
[email protected]
More info, upcoming schedule:
www.RabbiShefaGold.com
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Using writing exercises, wordless
melodies (niggunim) and the spoken
word, instructors Hazaan Abbe Lyons,
Hazaan Michal Rubin, Rabbi Melissa
Starr Wenig guide participants into a
collaborative creative process, into the
sacred words of Torah.
This process culminates in a dynamic
community presentation or Shabbat
morning D’var.
“Those who listen to the Speak-Chorus
are moved by the many voices, and
cadences of the ‘human script’ retelling Torah’s tales that are expressed
with poignancy, deep emotion and
soaring spirituality.”— Rabbi Leila Gal
Berner
Bring us to your community!
Email [email protected] or
[email protected]
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PROGRAM EVALUATION
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Program Evaluation
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