Everything is God: Exploring New Jewish Spirituality in San Francisco

Everything is God: Exploring the “New Jewish Spirituality” is a unique evening celebrating two new books by leaders of the next generation of Jewish spiritual leaders: Nehirim Executive Director Jay Michaelson’s Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism, and There Shall Be No Needy by Rabbi Jill Jacobs of the Jewish Funds for Justice.

First, a panel will discuss the widespread increase in spirituality and social justice activism among a new generation of post-denominational Jews. On the panel will be both Jacobs and Michaelson, recently named to the “Forward 50” list of “the men and women who are leading the American Jewish community into the 21st century.” They will be joined by Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, editor in chief of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought & Culture and Professor Ari Y. Kelman, one of the leading authorities on contemporary Jewish culture.

The panel will discuss the “new Jewish culture” and the new forms of Jewish spirituality emerging in the 21st century, how such forms resemble and differ from past ones, how spirituality and activism intersect, and what it means that Jews are post-denominationally and cross-culturally creating their own religious and secular approaches to Jewish spirituality.

The most exciting aspect of the evening, though, will be the “County Fair” of contemporary organizations working and creating new spiritual and religious forms within the New Jewish Culture. The fair will provide an opportunity to encounter this new flowering of Jewish spiritual creativity firsthand, meeting directly with some of its leaders. Organizations include Bay Area Learning Initiative, East Bay Minyan, Makom Shalom, Merkavah Torah Institute, Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture & Spirituality, Netivot Shalom, NITA, Wilderness Torah, Zeek, and many more. It is the “must-attend” event of the season!

Tickets are $5 in advance, $8 at the door. Advance registration is NOW OPEN at http://www.regonline.com/everything_is_god_SF .

Details:

Thursday, February 11, 7pm-9pm

Congregation Beth Sholom, 301 14th Avenue, San Francisco, CA