A Free Online Program
September 9 – 30, 2024
Mondays, 8:00 – 9:15 pm ET
Led by Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife and Rebecca Schisler
This September, tap into a special High Holidays series in our vibrant weekly Shevet Jewish Mindfulness Community, to prepare for the Jewish New Year with a welcoming community of young adults in their 20s and 30s. Together, we’ll embark on a powerful journey of reflecting on the past year and returning to our most authentic selves for the year ahead.
During the month of Elul, we’ll dedicate our weekly Shevet Jewish Mindfulness Community gatherings to preparing for the High Holidays.
Each live session, extended by 30 minutes, will include learning, small-group sharing, and practices intended to support one another to deepen our reflection, growth, and teshuvah (return) practice.
This program includes:
Live virtual sessions to cultivate connection and practice in community
Downloadable Resources
A WhatsApp discussion group
The opportunity to learn with a chevrutah (study) partner
For those who cannot attend the live sessions, you will have access to session recordings to learn at your own pace.
Whether you’re a longtime member of the Shevet community or this will be your first time joining us, we welcome you to begin the New Year together and continue our mindfulness journey in community throughout the year ahead.
WHO
Folks in their 20s and 30s
WHAT
Four live practice sessions to cultivate connection and practice as we enter the Jewish New Year
WHEN
Mondays September 9, 16, 23 and 30, from 8:00 – 9:15 pm ET
WHERE
Our warm, welcoming Zoom community
See you there!
Register for Answering the Call of the Shofar: A Study and Practice Group for Young Adults
Not in your 20s and 30s?
We have a High Holidays program for everyone! IJS will be offering a free, four-week online program for all ages, The Shofar Project: Awakening to Action for the New Year.
Meet Your Instructors
Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) Keshira halev Fife
Core Faculty
Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife sprinkles sparkles, disrupts expectations, and offers blessings wherever she goes. She serves as Core Faculty with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, Founding Kohenet of Kesher Pittsburgh, Program Director for Beloved Garden, and enjoys working with other national Jewish organizations. Additionally, she delights in serving as a shlichat tzibbur, life spiral ceremony/ritual creatrix, teacher, facilitator, liturgist and songstress. Her work in these realms is informed by her lived experience as a queer, bi-racial, Jewish person, her belief that Book, Body and Earth are equal sources of wisdom, the quandaries she has encountered as a scholar of the Orphan Wisdom School, and her deep commitment to a thriving, liberatory Jewish future. Keshira received Kohenet smicha in 2017 and earned her BS 2000 and MS 2001 at Carnegie Mellon University. Though both the lands of the Osage & Haudenosaunee people (aka Pittsburgh, PA) and the Gadigal people (Sydney, AUS) feel like home, Keshira and her beloved have been in an extended period of travel since January 2023.
Rebecca Schisler
Core Faculty
Rebecca is a meditation teacher, artist, and Jewish educator. A devoted contemplative practitioner, she has led groups and taught classes and retreats with Or HaLev, Awakened Heart Project, Orot, Wilderness Torah, Pardes, and Stanford School of Medicine. She was previously the Director of Student Health & Well-being at Stanford University’s Hillel, and co-authored the Mahloket Matters Schools Curriculum with the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. A student rabbi at ALEPH, Rebecca is passionate about integrating ancestral wisdom traditions with innovative approaches to personal and collective healing and liberation. She teaches Jewish spirituality as an embodied, holistic, and accessible path, with relevant and timely wisdom for all.
