Nehirim
GLBT Jewish Culture & Spirituality
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The Nehirim spiritual retreat is a soulful, heartful gathering where
you can connect with your community, relax and refresh, and explore
your spiritual path, forming connections that last a lifetime.
Our retreats feature:
A wide range of spiritual options, from traditional shabbat davening to meditation, yoga, and dance.
Schedule
This is the schedule for Nehirim 2007 -- no longer subject to much change..
For halachic information, click here.
Childcare is available free of charge -- families come every year!
The weekend lasts from 2:00 on Friday until 2:00 on Sunday. We do ask that retreatants
stay for the entire weekend.
Registration is handled by Elat Chayyim. You can now
register online at jewishretreatcenter.org
or you can call 800-398-2630.
We are very pleased to announce that Rabbi Steve Greenberg will be our scholar
in residence this year. Rabbi Steve Greenberg isnt afraid of a challenge. Known as an award-winning author, noted teacher, and religious iconoclast, Steve has broken boundaries and led the fight to make Orthodox Judaism more open and inclusive and accepting of gays and lesbians. A Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Steve was featured in the acclaimed 2001 film Trembling Before G-d, about Orthodox gay Jews, and has appeared in over 500 post-screening community dialogues throughout the world. As educational coordinator for the films outreach project, he arranged for screenings in Israels religious school system, reaching over 2,000 principals, educators and school counselors. A popular speaker on issues of faith, sexuality, and tradition, Steve helped organize the first Orthodox Mental Health Conference on homosexuality, and has worked with numerous families in reconciliation.
Winner of the coveted Koret Book Award for Philosophy and Thought, Steve is the author of the groundbreaking book Wrestling with God & Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), which explores homosexuality and Jewish tradition. The Koret awards are the most prestigious in Jewish prose. The book was also selected as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards.
Rabbi Lina Grazier-Zerbarini is the Associate Rabbi of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale. Lina received her A.B. at Barnard College majoring in Womens Studies/Spanish, and minoring in Religion. She received her M.H.L. from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
Danny Arguetty is a yoga teacher at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and a sought-after nutritional counselor. He will be joining Nehirim for
the first time this year.
Craig Hanauer is a Kripalu Certified Yoga Teacher, a Board Certified Art Therapist, and a longtime program director at Kripalu Center in Lenox MA. Currently much of Craigs work involves teaching yoga to children with special needs and teaching yoga teachers to work with this special population. Craig has been teaching yoga to adults in NYC for the past 6 years, and has maintained his own personal practice for the past 15 years.
Daniel Kertzner has been telling stories at schools, museums, synagogues for twenty years.
Ken Page is a psychotherapist, workshop leader, and lecturer who offers groups
and trainings on intimacy, spirituality, and sexuality. He believes that gay,
bisexual, and transgender women and men hold unique gifts and that healing
involves rediscovering and embracing these gifts that have
often been shunned. He is also delighted to be a new father.
Judith Z. Miller is an artist who is inspired by the beauty of nature and the guiding force of her intuition.Judith is the director of ZAMO!, a Brooklyn-based performing arts consulting company, a visual artist and poet. She teaches performing artists about self-promotion and leads workshops that use performance, visual, and poetic elements to access spiritual awareness.
Sponsoring organizations
Nehirim is supported by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.
cosponsored by a wide range of GLBT and allied Jewish organizations:
Elat Chayyim, JewishMosaic, JQYouth, Beth Chayim Chadashim (L.A.), the Bnai Jeshurun Gay Men's Havurah, the
God and Sexuality Conference, the JCC of Manhattan, Keshet-JTS, and Keshet-Boston.
If you would like more information, if you would like to volunteer to teach or lead services, or if your organization would like to cosponsor the retreat, you can always email us at info[at]nehirim.org.
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Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, is the director and co-founder of Tel Shemesh, a website celebrating and creating Jewish earth-based traditions, and the author of The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons (forthcoming September 2006). She is a poet, writer, myth-maker, and midrashist who has been published in many journals and anthologies, and is the author of Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women, a collection of modern midrash. Rabbi Hammer teaches in Manhattan and around the country on ancient and contemporary midrash, bibliodrama, ritual-making, and the cycles of Jewish time, and is currently an instructor at the Academy for Jewish Religion. She received a doctorate in social psychology from the University of Connecticut in 1996 and was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2001..
Rabbi Jacob J. Staub is Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Spirituality at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, where he served as Academic Vice President for 17 years
and where he was ordained. He served as editor of the Reconstructionist magazine. He is the founder and director of the first program in Jewish Spiritual Direction at a rabbinical seminary. He teaches medieval Jewish studies, Jewish meditation, and Jewish spirituality. He is the author of The Creation of the World According to Gersonides and the co-author of Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach. He came out as a gay man five years ago.
Shoshana Jedwab is a musician, performer, and prize-winning Jewish educator. She is founding facilitator of the JCC Drum Circle, Sonic Mikva, an interactive program of music, movement, and spirituality, and Tel Shemesh, a website creating and celebrating earth-based traditions within Judaism.
Chani Getter Chani Getter holds a BA in Human Development from Empire State College. She is a Motivational
Speaker as well as a Certified Holistic Life Coach. A single mother of 3 children, she has led parenting workshops and is currently facilitating a Single-Mother's support group in her community. Chani has spoken on numerous panels to tell her story of growing up Ultra-Chasidic and of her eventual acceptance of her identity. Chani follows an eclectic spiritual path that allows her to connect to the source of life within. In her work, she strives to creates a safe space for people to explore the paradoxes in their own lives.
Zvi Bellin has, for the past five years, led a variety of workshops on Jewish spirituality and mysticism. He holds an M.A.degree in Counseling and Guidance from NYU, and will begin his PhD study in Pastoral Counseling at Loyola College this Fall. Zvi's most recent interests include the spirituality of "dark places" and the formation of personal meaning outside the "normal and acceptable."
