Shalom Friends, The Open Dor Project rabbis joined together for three days this month. We met at El Capitan Canyon, outside of Santa Barbara. Robin and Roge...

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 the world. While the...

Shalom friends, I love the metaphors of bringing light into the world at this season, cliched as they can sometimes become. We can’t always assume light will...

a note from the director Shalom friends, As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving this week, I’m once again struck by the values that Judaism and the spirit o...

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 weeks more absorbed in J...

a note from the director This summer, the Open Dor Project is celebrating success and marking growth and change. I’m writing to introduce myself, as together...

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 within the past five ye...

It's just a little over two weeks until Pesach, and haggadot, plague finger puppets, and ping-pong ball hail are just starting to reappear in homes and commu...

Being "emergent" is in these days.  Everywhere you look, our traditional spiritual institutions are hosting gatherings outside their normal four walls and sp...

Dan and Lex are joined by Dan Horwitz, Founding Director of The Well, [1] an inclusive Jewish community-building initiative geared towards young adults in Me...

Tu Bishvat is right around the corner, and our community of spiritual startups is busy planting the seeds of reinvigorated Jewish spirituality and connection...

Congratulation to our cohort members Jewish Studio Project on being a recipient of a new The Covenant Foundation Ignition grant! This grant will help launch ...

Dan and Lex are joined by Sara and Isaac Luria, founders of Beloved, a home-based spiritual community in Brooklyn. [1] Their conversation covers a wide varie...

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 spiritual entrepreneu...

It's been five years since 2013's now famous A Portrait of Jewish Americans.  One of the big takeaways from this report was the huge number of respondents wh...

Five emerging Jewish educators received the 2018 Covenant Foundation Pomegranate Prize today at the annual Pomegranate Prize ceremony. This year’s cohort i...

By Gal Beckerman Nov. 12, 2018 When a gunman slaughtered 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue on a Shabbat morning last month, American Jews were left w...

Dear Friends, The recent tragic events remind us more than ever how much the world needs safe gathering spaces where love, understanding, and deep connection...

By Daniel S. Horwitz and Marisa Meyerson The yearly field trip from the Sunday school classroom to the Sukkah in the courtyard of the synagogue was always a ...

By Rabbi Sara Luria In a recent article, Barbara Dobkin coined the phrase “crisis-oriented calculation” when referring to our collective fretting about makin...