The JAMI year has begun!

Resources for Students and Families

How we decided it was time to make a change

• Read Rabbi Latz' September 2019 Drash about our changing community. In it he boldly claims that, "We as a synagogue must adapt to the new realities of our community."
• Watch Rabbi Benay Lappe's "An Unrecognizable Jewish Future" ELI Talk (or informally, the "CRASH Talk"). Rabbi Lappe is the Founder and President of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. In her Talk, she teaches her theory of responding to change, and goes on record as saying, "I don't think that an unrecognizable Jewish future is bad news."
  

Explore Jewish Moral Imagination

• Read a summary of John Paul Lederach's "The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace" and order a copy if you are inspired
• Watch historian Vincent Harding's "Creating America" which starts, "I am a citizen of a country that does not yet exist."

• Shabbat Morning Siddur
• Chanukkah 5781 Photo Challenge
• Purim 5781 Haggadah
• August 2021 Shabbatot Gathering Guidelines
• Elul 5781 Moon Journal
• HHD 5782 Gathering Guidelines
• Sounding Shofar Resource
• New Members' Sukkah-Build
• Youth and Families Night in the Sukkah

• Shir Tikvah's Vision for Jewish Moral Imagination
• You're Invited... Introductions and Frequently Asked Questions
• Infographic: Jewish Moral Imagination 101
• Recording of Asefah - Community Meeting about our Jewish Academy for Moral Imagination with password: HopeCourageLove5781!
  
• Guidelines for Gathering during our High Holy Days season
• Shabbat Morning Siddur
• Chanukkah Photo Challenge
• Purim Haggadah

Jewish Moral Imagination Lay Team

With immense gratitude to Dana Bennis and Melissa Machovsky - our Education Dream and Design Committee Co-Chairs - for their hours of organizing, leadership, questions, and ongoing support. Additional gratitude to committee members at-large Harry Adler, Donna Burnstein, Brian Edelschick, Tamar Ghidalia, Aaron Lichtov, Wendy Morris, Jennie Teichman, Ariella Tilsen, Tam Weiss, and Gayle Zoffer. Special thanks for additional support from Rabbi Debra Rappaport, Raena Davison, and Ari Weinstein.