Working name of group: “Page 36”
Email list: page-thirty-six@googlegroups.
Blog: http://page36community.
Mark your calendars:
- Saturday afternoon December 12th—lunch and ritual and talk on Hannukah/Hellenistm on UWS
Mich and Daniel L-L are point people
- Wednesday, December 23rd – learning of some kind TBD
Alissa and Aaron are point people
- Tuesday, January 5th- planning meeting at JCC in Manhattan
Attendance:
Daniel Lang- Levitsky
Eve Sicular
Aaron Levitt
Abigail Miller
Michelle Kay
Max
Alissa Wise
Emmaia Gelman
Staci
Aleza Summit
More practical tip:
- Meet bi-weekly on rotation (i.e. 1st Wednesday and 3rd Shabbes, still TBD)
- One of the two meetings/month will be Shabbes thing (either Friday eve or Saturday day) that include study/action
- Space: core location and some satellite locations for geographic accessibility focus on Manhattan below 125th Street
- No Debbie Friedman melodies
- Concentrated time for ritual and eating/schmoozing, not blending of two
- Create community, secular/religious together
- Find values in other’s worlds (have variety of things that not all of us will always participate in and that is OK)
Some things we would want to learn about:
- Hannukah/Hellenism
- Hebrew script/art/magic/craft
- Mikveh
- Jews & math
- Secular-religious divide
- The Dybbuk film
- Eve Sicular lectures
- Warsaw Ghetto Rebbe’s writings
Notes from the go-around (collection of people’s thoughts):
-More cultural connection then religious—music, yiddish, queer
- Don’t want to worry about fashion when going to shul
- Want a place to recharge, Jewish spirituality or nature work for me
- Cant be engaged in supporting or blind to ethnic cleansing or exploitation of people
- Lifecycle stuff—celebrations outside of babies and weddings…want to use lifecycle to celebrate other things too
- Frustrations with Zionism in synagogues (repeated often)
- High holidays are always stressful, to figure out what to do
- I often feel generationally out of place
- In many Jewish spaces my queerness feels invisible
- I have given up dreams of all parts of me to exist in one place—complacently out of place at this point
- want to rebuild cultural, social, and political life
- want to do text study—Talmud, hassidut, etc
- Want to use ritual and reinvent it too
- Wants a community that takes care of one another when necessary (death/illness)
- Want community to wear different hats, political, cultural, creative, intellectual, religious, spiritual (repeated often)
- Celebrate and mark holiday cycle together
- Havurah style of community—folks step up to do different things at different times (lead, teach, babysit, cook, clean, host…)
- Not that into formal synagogue formation
- JFREJ has been community for me, origin of my community
- Want the community to be intentional about being a community
- Shabbes dinner crew, core of people that are dependable (maybe with services and ritual)
- Not looking for a spiritual home because I don’t have a soul and don’t need one
- I am not looking for community of practice but don’t want my presence to obstruct others from seeking that here
- Community can do things that not everyone likes/wants because it does lots of different things
- Awareness of inevitably of my existence as next step in Jewish history, good moment for new constructions
- Religion as moral compass idea, want to think about that
- Want to bring in outside people to teach and talk and we discuss
- Want community for kids to grow up in
- Periodic moments of reflection, more than once a year
- Ritual that involves study (not just Jewish)
- Folks step up to do things as they feel moved
- I am atheist
- Like traditional davenning, some places are too woo-woo for me
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