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Our goal for MITZVAH is to deepen your capacity to connect students to meaningful Jewish practices for daily living. We will use traditional and contemporary texts, rituals, practices and interpretations that bring the beauty and importance of mitzvah-centered living fully to life. |
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Our goal for MUSSAR is to prepare you to nurture the healthy physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual development of your students by learning the key principles of this mindfulness practice. You will learn core concepts, study from traditional mussar texts and engage in the fundamentals of this practice. |
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Our goal for MAGGID is to ensure that you know how to select and shape traditional and contemporary mitzvah stories effectively for telling in regard to the major settings of Jewish life. You will be guided on how best to deliver stories with a quality of presence that engages and inspires your students and communities. A substantial repertoire will result. |
Peninnah Schram, storyteller, teacher, author and recording artist, is Professor of Speech and Drama at Stern College of Yeshiva University. She is author of twelve books of Jewish folktales, including The Hungry Clothes and Other Jewish Folktales, and recorded a CD, The Minstrel and the Storyteller with singer/guitarist Gerard Edery. Mitzvah Stories:Seeds for Inspiration and Learning (Reclaiming Judaism Press) was published in her honor. Peninnah is a recipient of the prestigious Covenant Award for Outstanding Jewish Educator (1995) awarded by The Covenant Foundation. She has been awarded the National Storytelling Network’s 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award "For sustained and exemplary contributions to storytelling in America."
Rabbi Goldie Milgram, DMin., M.HL., MSW., founded and directs the non-profit Reclaiming Judaism and this Jewish Spiritual Education program. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Reclaiming Judaism Press and Podcasts, providing innovative new programs and resources for meaningful Jewish living. Rabbi Milgram has worked at every level of Jewish education--religious school teacher, & principal, youth group director, BJE director, camp, pulpit, center & campus rabbi and consultant, Federation executive, university faculty and seminary dean. A Covenant Award finalist honored for her excellence in experiential Jewish education, she is also a widely published author, professional Jewish storyteller and former NBC Health Watch program innovator & anchor person, and recipient of the American Cancer Society's "Most Distinguished Citizen Award." Her new book, Mitzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning has just been honored by the National Jewish Book Awards.
Arthur Strimling is Maggid HaMakom at Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 
Mindy Shapiro is a certified Mussar Educator and master teacher with Rabbi Ira Stone’s national Mussar Leadership Program, as well as a contributing author and managing editor of the soon-to-be-released Mussar Workbook: Guide to Middot. During a thirty-year professional career she has served as founding director of Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing!, a program of Moving Traditions, as a senior Hillel director in Philadelphia and on the Bational Hillel staff in Washington, DC, as well as Director of Cultural Arts at the Gershman Y, religious school educator, youth group director, and summer camp staff. A papercut artist and arts educator, she also serves on the editorial team for the next release from Reclaiming Judaism Press, honoring Danny Siegel, A Family Treasury of Mitzvah Stories.|
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Rabbi Goldie Milgram [Ed]
Seeking and Soaring: Jewish Approaches to Spiritual Direction provides a fascinating opportunity to individually meet and appreciate many of the...
