by Jodi Kaufman | Aug 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
HaNefesh: Breathing New Life into the High Holy Days Enjoy this inspirational video featuring Jewish thought leader Naomi Ackerman. Naomi Ackerman, the founder and executive director of The Advot Project is an experienced actress, consultant, and...
by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | Aug 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
High Holy Days 2020/5781 are going to be like nothing we have ever experienced. We are going to be “virtual” and with our new community, HaNefesh. These High Holy Days, we each bring our heart and soul forward to create our new year. We are blending together...
by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | Aug 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
This is our 8th issue of the HaNefesh and Jew By You Newsletters. It’s awesome to see how far we’ve come in the past two months. We have celebrated Shabbat, enjoyed Torah study, and sang out during Havdalah. We have mourned with the Fidel family and wish Mazal Tov to...
by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | Aug 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
In Pirkei Avot, Hillel teaches us, “Do not separate yourself from the community.” Yet here we are in the middle of a pandemic where we are being told to separate ourselves. How do we separate ourselves without really separating ourselves? How do we...
by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | Jul 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
A group of people with shared values and vision come together to create a community. This is HaNefesh. We are a group of people with the shared values of creating an open and safe Jewish community where all can come, explore and express their Judaism without fear of...
by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | Jun 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Come Be A Disrupter With HaNefesh! Amy Asin taught us at the URJ Biennial in December that if we only seek to improve or transform what synagogues do, then they will not exist. If we want Judaism to exist tomorrow, we have to disrupt the system as we know it....