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Being Jewish in America: Emerging Trends in Jewish Life and Family

Name: Being Jewish in America: Emerging Trends in Jewish Life and Family
Start: 2021-04-13T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-04-13T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Online

April 13, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Online

United States

$25.00

Complimentary for lay leader pass holders and professionals of supporting organizations.

In this next installment of the Leadership Lab Series: Being Jewish in America, we will explore the diversity and dynamics of the rising generations of younger Jews and the challenges and opportunities they present to Jewish organizations. What can we offer of value to younger Jews whose relationships are more diverse, ways of belonging more creative, world more chaotic, and concerns more global? How must we transform the way our institutions operate so that we can better engage them and build connections that powerfully bridge the generations?

Explore these and other questions with Aliza Kline, CEO of OneTable, and Rabbi Hayim Herring, author and former executive director of STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal). The evening will be facilitated by Dr. Bill Robinson, Executive Director of Na’aleh.

This event is sponsored by the Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds.

$25 is the registration fee for this workshop.
This event is complimentary for lay leader pass holders and professionals of supporting organizations. View supporting organization list.
Annual lay leadership passes are available for $180 with access to all Na’aleh programs. Learn more.

Questions? Contact info@naalehbaltimore.org

Zoom link will be provided in advance of the virtual event.

In keeping with our Jewish values, The Associated supports a thriving Baltimore that celebrates diversity and appreciates the unique combination of gender, race, age, religion and ethnicity, sexual orientation, cognitive and physical disabilities and special qualities that each resident adds to the fabric of life in Baltimore. We welcome everyone interested in our mission to join us. If you require accommodations, please contact us, and we will make every effort to meet your needs.
Live-captioning is available through Maryland Relay Service. Generally, 48 hours advance notice is required to set this up.

Na’aleh: The Hub for Leadership Learning offers community-wide interactive and inspiring learning opportunities for professionals and volunteers to connect and grow as leaders working together to ensure a vibrant Baltimore Jewish community. Na’aleh (formerly known as the Center for Leadership) unites our three successful Jewish leadership programs – ACHARAI: The Shoshana S. Cardin Jewish Learning Institute (ACHARAI), The Darrell D. Friedman Institute for Professional Development (DFI) and The Associated’s Center for Community Engagement and Leadership (CCEL). Learn more about Na’aleh at naalehbaltimore.org.

Speakers

Aliza Kline is the President and CEO of OneTable. At a time when many feel isolated and disconnected from Jewish life, OneTable creates new ways to connect with each other, time and community by linking Jewish wisdom with modern technology. Founded in 2014, OneTable has grown to a national organization that engages tens of thousands Jewish young adults through peer-led Shabbat dinners. Since the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, OneTable has expanded to serve the broader community – most recently by launching HereFor.com a platform to enable individuals to find alternative High Holiday celebrations. Also the founding executive director of Mayyim Hayyim Community Mikveh & Education Center, Aliza has devoted her career to re-imagining Jewish ritual open to the full diversity of the community. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her partner Rabbi Bradley Solmsen and three daughters.

Rabbi Hayim Herring, Ph.D., is C.E.O. of HayimHerring.com, whose mission is “Preparing Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Organizations™.” He has served as a congregational rabbi of Beth El Synagogue in Minneapolis, MN., assistant executive director of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, and founding executive director of STAR (Synagogues: Transformation and Renewal), a foundation created by Michael Steinhardt, Edgar Bronfman, and Lynn Schusterman for synagogue innovation and rabbinic leadership development. Hayim has published over 70 scholarly and popular articles and studies primarily on the American Jewish community. Recent books include Connecting Generations: Bridging the Boomer, Gen X, and Millennial Divide (Rowman and Littlefield 2019); Leading Congregations and Nonprofit Organizations in a Connected World: Platforms, People and Purpose (Rowman and Littlefield 2016), co-authored with Dr. Terri Elton; and, Tomorrow’s Synagogue Today: Creating Vibrant Centers of Jewish Life (Rowman/Alban Institute 2012). He is currently co-authoring a volume title, L’Dor va-Dor in a Post-COVID Digital Age.