Open Dor Project Learnings
Dear Friends, I want to share our newest learnings from the Open Dor Project with you. Over the past three years, Open Dor has invested...
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- Sep 16, 2020
- 7 min
High Holiday Roundup
Shanah tovah! The ramp up to this year’s High Holy Days feels... different. That’s no surprise to any of us. Whether our preparations...
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Opendorproject
- Aug 28, 2020
- 4 min
August Spotlight
An idiosyncratic community rooted in the Venice, CA culture popularized by Hendricks, Oingo Boingo and Ray Bradbury, Open Temple...
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Opendorproject
- Jul 1, 2020
- 3 min
Summer Spotlight
A perspective from Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg of Malkhut in Queens, NY. My kids’ first protest was a Black Lives Matter march in Hartford,...
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Opendorproject
- Apr 30, 2020
- 5 min
May Spotlight - Three Years of CoHere by Rabbi Ari Moffic
When I launched CoHere, I wasn’t truly sure what it was meant to be. I knew that unaffiliated families wanted to access convenient,...
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Opendorproject
- Mar 31, 2020
- 2 min
March Updates
Dear Friends, We are all living in a new reality. For some of us, we have been social distancing for weeks and are in some kind of new...
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Opendorproject
- Mar 4, 2020
- 3 min
2020 Convening Recap
Shalom Friends, The Open Dor Project rabbis joined together for three days this month. We met at El Capitan Canyon, outside of Santa...
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Opendorproject
- Jan 31, 2020
- 3 min
January Spotlight
Shalom Friends, I’m writing this to you on a cold January day. It can be so easy to curl up, absorbed with distressing news from around...
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Opendorproject
- Dec 26, 2019
- 2 min
Happy Chanukah
Shalom friends, I love the metaphors of bringing light into the world at this season, cliched as they can sometimes become. We can’t...
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Opendorproject
- Dec 26, 2019
- 3 min
November Spotlight
a note from the director Shalom friends, As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving this week, I’m once again struck by the values that...
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Opendorproject
- Nov 1, 2019
- 2 min
October Spotlight
a note from the director Shalom friends, I hope you’ve all had a meaningful High Holy Day season. As we transition from living a few...
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Opendorproject
- Aug 29, 2019
- 3 min
Summer Spotlight
a note from the director This summer, the Open Dor Project is celebrating success and marking growth and change. I’m writing to introduce...
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Community Voices
- May 20, 2019
- 4 min
Transitioning from an Organization Doing Jewish Work to a Jewish Organization
May 20, 2019 By eJP By David Cygielman Since its inception, Moishe House has always been engaged in Jewish work, but it has only been...
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Community Voices
- Apr 3, 2019
- 4 min
Open Dor Project Spring Roundup
It's just a little over two weeks until Pesach, and haggadot, plague finger puppets, and ping-pong ball hail are just starting to...
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Opendorproject
- Feb 21, 2019
- 3 min
Jewish Spiritual Startups: So Much More than "Outreach"
Being "emergent" is in these days. Everywhere you look, our traditional spiritual institutions are hosting gatherings outside their...
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Community Voices
- Feb 5, 2019
- 3 min
Judaism Unbound Episode 105: The Well - Dan Horwitz
Dan and Lex are joined by Dan Horwitz, Founding Director of The Well, [1] an inclusive Jewish community-building initiative geared...
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Opendorproject
- Jan 18, 2019
- 4 min
Seeding the future
Tu Bishvat is right around the corner, and our community of spiritual startups is busy planting the seeds of reinvigorated Jewish...
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Opendorproject
- Jan 9, 2019
- 1 min
The Covenant Foundation Ignition Grant
Congratulation to our cohort members Jewish Studio Project on being a recipient of a new The Covenant Foundation Ignition grant! This...
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Community Voices
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
Judaism Unbound Episode 115: Beloved - Sara Luria, Isaac Luria
Dan and Lex are joined by Sara and Isaac Luria, founders of Beloved, a home-based spiritual community in Brooklyn. [1] Their conversation...
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Opendorproject
- Dec 5, 2018
- 3 min
The Light Of Co-Creation
Our tradition has long taught that we are co-creators with God in building the world we wish to see. So it only makes sense that Jewish...
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