JICC Program Book 2013

Jewish intentional conference 2013

Communities November 14-17

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Dear Friends, Welcome to this momentous occasion—our frst ever Jewish Intentional Communities Conference! We are so glad you can join us for this exciting event. For the past several years, our organizations have been thinking together about what it means to live in and create Jewish intentional communities. As we have grown more deeply committed to this idea, we have come together to found the Jewish Intentional Communities Initiative, with this frst conference as the launching point. We are thrilled to see this vision coming to fruition here at Pearlstone, and are looking forward to next year’s conference at Isabella Freedman as well.

Together our participant group represents a wonderful and diverse spectrum of people interested in this topic. For some, this is your frst foray into the idea of intentional communities, while for others this is another step deeper into a commitment spanning many years. We are especially grateful to the Jewish Agency for Israel and to Josh E. and Genine Macks Fidler, for their generous support of this event, enabling both Israeli and North American leaders of intentional communities to join us throughout the weekend, share their wisdom, and help this nascent movement grow into its own.

As Jews, we are rediscovering our roots in intentional community. From our ancient nomadic wandering through the desert, to the shtetls of eastern Europe, to today’s plethora of short term young adult communal programs, intentional community is a core part of the Jewish experience. Pearlstone, Hazon, and the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center now join together to help spark the next stage of our communal journey, as we imagine a variety of Jewish intentional communities growing out of this conference and this initiative for years to come.

While we certainly hope that each of you has a great time over these next few days, that is, in one sense, the least of it. Our intention is to take what is already happening - ideas, programs, visions, conversations - and help take them to the next level. There is a good chance that over this weekend, we may be challenged to broaden our horizons, reexamine what we know about ourselves and our communities, and dare to dream bigger about what is possible and what we can create together. It may take fve or ten years to really be able to assess the impact of this frst Conference, but if we're successful, we hope that, in due course, there will be a whole series of new Jewish intentional communities developed in the United States, in Israel, and all over the world.

Im tirtzu, ein zo aggadah. If you will it, it is no dream.

L’chayim!

Jakir Manela Executive Director, Pearlstone Center

Nigel Savage Executive Director, Hazon

David Weisberg Executive Director, Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center

Babysitting and Children’s Programming Schedule Nov 14-17, 2013 Babysitting

3-4 year olds

5-6 year olds

7-9 year olds

Thursday 7:15pm-10:45pm

Available for any children

Friday 9:45am-11am

Available for 0-3 years old

Shabbat Arts and Crafts

Cooking/Food Fun

Group Building Games

Friday 11:15am-12:30pm

Available for 0-3 years old

Group Games

Shabbat Arts and Crafts

Farm Activity

Friday 1:45pm-3:00pm

Available for 0-3 years old

Cooking/Food Fun

Group Games

Shabbat Arts and Crafts

Friday 8:30pm-9:45pm

Available for any children

Saturday 8:45am-11am

Available for 03 years old

Children’s Tefillah Service (New Dining Room)

Saturday 11:30am-12:45pm

Available for 03 years old

Trails and Games

Meet the Animals

Saturday 4:00pm-5:15pm

Available for 03 years old

Meet the Animals

Trails and Games

Saturday 8:00pm-9:15pm

Available for any children

Sunday 9:00am-10:30am

Available for 0-3 years old

Farm Activity

Art project to take home

Cooking/Food Fun

Sunday 10:30am-12:00pm

Available for 0-3 years old

Art project to take home

Farm activity

Art project to take home

● Children’s programming is available for all potty-trained children. ● All children’s programming will meet and conclude in the Activity Center on our lower level. ● All daytime babysitting will be held in the Playroom on the lower level. ● Evening babysitting will be held in both the Playroom and Activity Center.

Session Descriptions Thursday, 7:15-8:15pm ● Jewish Intentional Communities: Defining the Moment Rabbi Sid Schwarz has been a leading voice in re-thinking the shape of American Jewish life. In this talk he will place the inaugural gathering of Jewish Intentional Communities in the context of American cultural life, the American Jewish community and Judaic teachings.

Thursday, 8:30-9:45pm ● Plenary #1: Communal Intentions How are you personally involved in intentional community? What are your interests and passions, and where do they intersect with those of others at this Conference? Through a participatory and creative process, we will get to know each other and gain a sense of our intentions as a community.

Friday, 9:45-11:00am ● Identifying your Community Mission: Creating Shared Language & Purpose You have the group together. Now what will hold you together? What is the mission and vision of your community that will serve as its foundation?

Brainstorm ways to plan the highest goals in coming together and how to get clear about the details and create the shared language that will be your community's platform. Learn how even the practicalist and the idealist in your group can come together on common ground.

● Immersive Programs in Jewish Intentional Community Maybe you've already heard about Moishe House, Adamah or the Pearlstone Apprenticeshipthree different, immersive community programs geared at 20's/30's Jewish

young adults. Come hear more from the people who are helping to reshape Jewish identity in new and meaningful ways.

● Collective Living in the Urban Landscape How can neighbors come together in an urban setting to create strong community? What are some shared living models for the urban grid?

How can we do this on a neighborhood level, on a block level, and on a single-home level, and support collective sustainability in the process?

Join this panel discussion to learn about 3 different models of urban intentional communities and gain resources that can be used in your own community.

● Co-Housing in a Jewish Context We'll explore cohousing as a modern shtetl, where neighbors diverse in age, income, family composition, and Jewish observance - and know one another well - participate actively in each other's lives, and share a commitment to Jewish life. The questions addressed by this session include: What is the cohousing model of intentional neighborhood? How/why can we adapt and build upon it in a Jewish context? How is cohousing distinct from other forms of intentional community? How are cohousing communities created, and how specifically is Urban Moshav working to create Jewish cohousing?

Friday, 11:15am- 12:30pm ● Introduction to School of Living's Community Land Trust Model The purpose of the Community Land Trust is to provide secure access to land for current generations and protect the land for future generations, while representing the interests of the larger community. SOL’s CLT model integrates Georgist economic principles, intentional community, ecological stewardship

and education. This presentation will provide an overview of the history of the SOL CLT model, the Georgist principles behind collecting land rent, why CLT may be the best land-holding option for intentional communities, and how the CLT model promotes sustainability and social justice.

● Community Leadership & Shared Responsibility With great power comes great responsibility. We know that our communities can have an incredible impact, but how can we best share responsibility within a community? What are governance and leadership systems we should consider within intentional community? Join this session to discuss ways to get members empowered to take on self-organizing and selfgoverning systems, and strategize ways to make them accountable for their participation.

● Creating Youth Based Intentional Community Join Kali, Yoni, and Ira to for an experiential session about creating intentional community context for younger children and teens. Learning from intentional community models and bestpractices to empower children to take ownership, share responsibility, communicate effectively, and form healthy, supportive relationships...while still having fun & being kids!

● Community-Scale Permaculture Permaculture is an ecological, social, and economic design system based upon patterns and relationships found in natural ecosystems.

How can we use this design system to guide our communities to move beyond being dependent consumers and grow into being responsible and productive earth citizens? How can we co-create a sustainable culture whose relationship with land, food, housing, and energy are harmonious with the earth system networks currently sustaining us? Take a journey on the established trails of this laid out for us in our Jewish heritage.

Friday, 1:45 -3:00pm ● Manifesting The Vision: Community Structures, Finding Land & Securing Finances Now that you have your mission and vision, how is our community structured and what affect does that have on acquiring land? With so many choices, how do we choose from available properties? How do we navigate acceptance of our choice within our group, within the neighborhood and within the purview of local and state regulations? Learn more about choosing the right land for your community.

● Establishing Long Term Community at Pearlstone: Sharing Our Vision & Process Exploring the case-study of the Pearlstone Center's communal vision, learn about a unique approach to developing Jewish intentional community for the sake of education and outreach, in service of the wider regional Jewish community. How can we create Jewish community models on land owned by the regional Jewish community? How can this community take full advantage of regional Jewish resources, both organizational and philanthropic? How can this community be created with both local institutional and individuals' needs and motivations in mind, and be designed and built with the best chances for long-term sustainability and success?

● Community Business Models & Social Entrepreneurship In some communities, having a shared business helps keep everyone together and gives everyone a place. How do we develop businesses together as a community? How do we do this while keeping true to our values, and also supporting the community mission? Explore how community-based business might look different and be managed differently than a market-based business, and what challenges and opportunities to keep in mind with starting a business in a community context.

● Creativity & Artistic Expression in Community Building Art is a medium which helps us to express emotions, creativity, dreams, fears, etc. It can be used for simple playful entertainment, or it can be used as a therapeutic practice. How can we use art in our community context to empower individual expression, as well as collective expression? This session will incorporate drama and clay to explore this theme.

Friday, 8:30 - 9:45pm ● Plenary #2: Journeys in Jewish Intentional Community Building Introducing a diverse spectrum of conference participants who can articulate their motivations, values, challenges, and lessons learned from a personal journey through intentional community.

Panelists will share their personal stories as Jews exploring intentional communities and offer advice to individuals or families who are considering joining or starting their own community.

Saturday,11:30am - 12:45pm ● Interpersonal Relationships & Conflict Resolution Part of community is dealing with the complexity of interpersonal relationships. Especially since we are all connected, each relationship affects the other. What happens when conflict arises between community members? How is this managed in a healthy, supportive way by the community? How are relationships developed so tensions do not escalate into full conflicts?

● Intentional Community as a Platform for Social Advocacy & Justice Building a community where we live out our values together makes a strong statement about our politics and our vision for the world. What does it mean to use an intentional community model to engage outer pockets of community in

social justice work? What tools, tactics, and systems can we use from intentional community space to make a more just world for all?

● Celebrating Jewish Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities If we are to build strong Jewish community, how do we come together with shared agreements around our own religious practices and identities?

Is pluralistic Jewish community possible? Join us for a conversation around the challenges and opportunities for living in diverse, multidenominational Jewish community.

● Communal Decision Making: Building Consensus A community is a collective of many diverse opinions and voices. How do communities come together and make collaborative decisions? How do we do this while respecting everyone's needs and respecting our time? How is this process managed? Explore how we can effectively employ a consensus-based approach to decision making in building an intentional community, tapping the wisdom of the entire group and ensuring greater buy-in from all.

Saturday, 4:00-5:15pm ● Compassionate Communication How to deal when you hear yourself saying: "THEY'RE CRAZY and I'M RIGHT!" This session is for anyone who is looking to strengthen your practice of patience and empathy among individuals and communities to transform conflict and strengthen cultures of peace. We will also share experiences and tools among participants for those looking to train members of their communities in these practices.

● Gender, Elders and Spirit: Celebrating the Edges Within Community A community is a mosaic of deep and diverse relationships. Many of these relationships border on a sensitive, vulnerable edge; especially the

connections between the masculine and feminine, between elders and youngsters, and between human and spirit. This session will focus on the practices of honoring and respecting these edges, as a way to develop mature and holistic relationships within the community.

● Cultural Pluralism: Celebrating Judaism in Mixed Faith Communities To varying degrees we have all experienced living as Jews in a predominantly non-Jewish world.

How do we keep our Jewish identity strong when we live in communities that are not Jewish? How can this cultural diversity empower our own Jewish commitment and curiosity? How can we coexist through multiple paths of faith within one community? In this session, explore this sensitive and meaningful question in safe space.

● Sharing in Mind: The Communal Model When we are little, we are taught to share our toys. As adults living in community, sharing can go far beyond sharing toys. In this model of intentional community, everything is shared: work, income, even cars. How are such systems designed? How does this meet everyone's individual needs at the same time? Explore the possibilities in this session.

Saturday, 8:00-9:15pm ● Keynote #3: Whose Community is it Anyway?

Join us for a FUN evening game show! Let your hair down, prepare to laugh and celebrate the silly situations we often experience in intentional community building and living. Ridiculous prizes will be given to creative teams and daring improv actors! Adults only, please!

Sunday, 9:00 - 10:30am ● Open Space Conversations: Facilitated Chaos Open Space is a unique format to allow untapped topics or conversations which have only begun to be explored. We will gather topics suggestions from the community and post session topics around the room, creating space for discussion, while allowing everyone the flexibility to move around, learn adn contribute as they see fit.

Sunday, 10:30am - 12:00pm ● Keynote #4: Building Community Together: Next Steps, Moving Forward & Community Networking We've had a great weekend together, but how do we keep the momentum going?

Executive Directors, Jakir and Nigel, will discuss the next steps for the Jewish Intentional Communities Initiative. Join us for this final session where we dare to dream bigger about what's possible and what we can create together.

Conference Presenters Elik Almog (Kehilat Kama) Elik is one of the members and founders of 'Kama', an urban community in Beer Sheva. In the past 5 years he was the CEO of 'Tor Hamidbar' an NGO established by the Kama community in order to promote social change in the Negev district. After being the CEO of the "Tor Hamidbar" for 5 years Elik left the position (but remains a part of the board) and become the manager of "HaYerushalmit" – a gap year service program also established by intentional communities. Prior to his work at "Tor HaMidbar" Elik used to work as a group moderator in Beit Morasha and Gvanim (NGO). Elik Almog is 33 years old, married to Noam and father to Rona.

Aharon Ariel-Lavi (Garin Shuva) Aharon Ariel Lavi is the founder and director of the Nettiot Mission-Driven Communities Network, reengaging Haredi Ba'aley Teshuva (Returnees) into Israeli society. He is also founder of Garin Shuva in the North-Western Negev and co-founder of the National Council of Mission-Driven Communities. Aharon runs the Hitzim social business in the Negev, and is writing a PhD on Jewish Economic Thought and published a book on this issue. In 2013-14 Aharon lives with his wife and three children in NYC as a Tikvah Fund fellow.

graduate of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality’s Jewish Mindfulness Teacher Training, and is studying waking dreams for creative transformation in the School of Images with Dr. Catherine Shainberg.

Rachael Cohen Rachael Cohen is a big-picture thinker, captivated by social systems and social change. She believes in the process of community building as a means to remedy social disintegration and repair individual well-being. Rachael has a master’s degree in macro social work and community practice, as well as a certificate in nonprofit management. She is currently working on relationship-based social change through the internet forum New Jewish Communities, and in Falls Village, CT, both at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center and within the local community.

Raines Cohen Raines Cohen is a Cohousing Coach, a community organizer and connector, who has visited over 100 cohousing neighborhoods and advised many forming and established groups and community seekers and founders. Growing up near Boston, he discovered the power of people helping each other in the technology world, forming computer user groups. After co-founding the Berkeley Mac Users Helen Bennett (Moishe Kavod House) Group (BMUG) and working in technology Helen Bennett is passionate about what brings journalism and computer consulting, he found the people together. She works for JOIN for Justice and same communication and compassion skills and is an organizer at the Moishe Kavod Jewish Social models helped places for living that blend privacy Justice House in Boston where she organizes and community. He has served on the Cohousing Jewish young adults towards building spiritual Association of the US (Coho/US) and Fellowship for community and working for social justice. An Intentional Community (FIC) boards. He wrote the alumna of Adamah, The Jewish Farm School, and "Aging in Community" chapter in the book Yeshivat Hadar, Helen also has experience with Audacious Aging (Elite, 2008). He lives in Berkeley community planning, cooperative living, and Cohousing with his wife Betsy Morris, where facilitation. together they lead the world's largest Intentional Communities MeetUp group, East Bay Cohousing Sarah Chandler (Isabella Freedman) and its statewide umbrella, Cohousing California.

Sarah Chandler serves as the Director of Earth Based Spiritual Practice for Hazon’s Adamah Farm Arjuna Da Silva (Earthaven Ecovillage) at Isabella Freedman. She is a Jewish experiential From a kosher home in Brooklyn, Arjuna emerged educator, community activist, and spiritual leader. to explore the worlds of psychology, creative She has her M.A. in Jewish Communal and writing, theater, metaphysics and political Experiential Education and Hebrew Bible from the philosophy, studying at Brooklyn College (1963Jewish Theological Seminary. Sarah is a student of 66), The New School (NYC, 1970-71) and the Kohenet: The Hebrew Priestess Institute, a recent California Institute of Integral Studies (San

Francisco, 1975-76). Professional counselor/hypnotherapist. Contributing writer for Communities magazine. Co-founder of Earthaven Ecovillage. Board member of Earthaven Association, Culture’s Edge (non-profit education), and Celo Community.

Reuven Greenvald (Jewish Agency for Israel) Reuven Greenvald was a day school educator for over twenty years, serving in teaching and administrative capacities. At the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (Rockville, MD), he was the Upper School Principal and at the Kehillah Jewish High School (Palo Alto, CA) he was Head of Ira Dounn (BBYO) School. A graduate of the JTS rabbinical school and Ira J. Dounn is the Director of Jewish Enrichment the University of Pennsylvania, he spent two years for BBYO’s Northeast Hub. He has previously (2002-04) in Israel as a Jerusalem Fellow at the served as Program Director of South Jersey Region Mandel Leadership Institute. Since June of 2007 he BBYO, Associate Coordinator of Jewish Child Care has been working at Makōm as its Director of Association’s Bukharian Teen Lounge in Queens, Community Initiatives NY, and Teen Educator at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Manhattan. Ira has a Bachelor’s Michael Gropper (Moishe House) degree from the University of Chicago, a Masters in Michael is ecstatic to be the Western Regional Jewish Education from Hebrew College, is pursuing Director for Moishe House. Prior to Moishe House an MBA at Indiana University’s Kelley School of he worked for the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Business, and has studied at Yeshivat Hamivtar and Angeles as the Program Director for Taglit-Birthright Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. He currently lives in Israel. He graduated with a Religious Studies Manhattan. degree from San Diego State University and spent a year studying abroad in Israel, at Tel Aviv Josh Fidler University. Michael has also worked for the Josh E. Fidler enjoys a diverse and successful American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee business career. He is actively involved in three (JDC) as a Jewish Service Corps Fellow in Mumbai, distinct endeavors – real estate, venture capital and India. Yes, there are Jews in India – and have been investment management. Mr. Fidler serves the for over 2000 years!! Michael currently lives in San community as a member of the Board of Johns Diego, and is happiest when surrounded with Hopkins Medicine and the Baltimore Community family, friends, music, and food.

Foundation. He was the Founding Chair of Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center and Felicity Jeans (Camphill) Chair of Capital Camps and Retreat Center.

Felicity Jeans is the Camphill Village Kimberton Together with his wife, Genine, Mr. Fidler was a Co- Hills Executive Director and Community Chair of the 2012 General Assembly of Jewish Coordinator. Felicity has been a Camphill resident Federations of North America. Mr. Fidler received volunteer since 1988, first at the Pennine Camphill his law degree from New York University School of community in Yorkshire, then with a pioneering Law and his BA from Brown University. Mr. Fidler adult community forming in Co. Monaghan, Ireland. lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife, Genine Macks On completing the Eurythmy training she joined Fidler.

Kimberton Hills in 2005, became manager of the weavery and fiber arts workshops, the Craft Shop James Grant-Rosenhead (Kibbutz Mishol) and a household leader. She became the ED in James Grant-Rosenhead was born in Leeds, July 2013 and lives in a household with 9 people, 5 England. He got interested in Jewish leadership who have developmental disabilities. and intentional communities at 16 years old by going to the Habonim Dror youth movement. Since Joel Kachinsky (The Farm) 1999 he has been building fully cooperative, activist Joel Kachinsky is 70, an identical twin, and lived in intentional communities, intentional community the Jewish Dorchester section of Boston. He joined networks and activist projects all over Israel, The Farm, an intentional community in Summerton, including as a founder member of his home TN, in 1972 and since 1973 has been legal counsel, Kibbutz Mishol, the biggest activist urban kibbutz in and secretary or president of The Foundation- the Israel. He is also on the board of the National nonprofit, religious, membership corporation that Council of Activist Communities in Israel. manages The Farm. He has been practicing law in

Tennessee since 1973 and been a soymilk cooker since 2005.

private practice designing and building homes for the past seven years.

Rachel Kriger (Heathcote) At the Adamah fellowship in Connecticut, Rachel Kriger learned to fuse her passions for farming, Jewish ritual, community and personal growth. Now, as an acupuncturist, she helps others cultivate and maintain wellness. She lives with her husband and eighteen other people at Heathcote, an intentional community 30 miles north of Baltimore.

Stacey London-Oshkello (Living Tree Alliance / Cold Pond Trust) Stacey lives with her husband Craig, and their two children Ayla and Adyn Shai. They currently live amongst a farming community land trust in Acworth, NH; where they have resided for almost 10 years.

Stacey and Craig raise sheep, chickens, and many different types of vegetables, mostly for their own consumption but do sell some of their farm Nina Lankin (Twin Oaks) products. Stacey spends her days caring for her Nina lives at Twin Oaks Community and is a children and animals, making nutritious meals, vocalist for Vulgar Bulgars, Central Virginia's hottest enjoying the woods and outdoors, and offering Klezmer band. She is very excited to be a part of nutritional counseling. In addition Stacey loves to the first Jewish Intentional Communities read, take hot baths, saunas, and celebrate the Conference!

Jewish calendar. Balancing time with my family, time amongst community, and time alone outdoors Jess Little (Twin Oaks) is of primary importance to Stacey.

Jess moved to Twin Oaks Community in Central Virginia at the end of 2005. While living at Twin Tzur Oren (Ketzev) Oaks, she's been involved in various aspects of Tzur Oren is the Program Coordinator of “Ketzev,” a community life, from economic planning to cooking Jewish Agency program that helps groups of to running meetings to fixing cars. She's a strong idealistic young Israelis to create social activism believer in the community model of living, and businesses that raise the quality of life in Israel’s enjoys talking to other people about starting new geographic and cultural peripheries. As Program communities.

Coordinator, Mr. Oren is responsible for developing Tamar Milstein (Kibbutz Kramim) Tamar Milstein is the visionary, founder and director of the social business, Community Stage in Kramim. She has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University and is a graduate of the famed Nissan Nativ Acting Studio in Tel Aviv and the Mandel School for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem. Tamar has founded and directed many social and educational programs that incorporate the arts. Tamar is married to Amir, they have four children and they live in Kibbutz Kramim in Israel.

Craig Oshkello (Living Tree Alliance / Cold Pond Trust) Craig Oshkello, MLA, has been dedicated to the design and development of intentional farm based communities for the past twelve years. In 2000, Craig started a non-profit organization, Land For Good , to help keep New England’s working lands productive. As a professionally trained landscape architect, Craig delivers farm design, land planning and green development consulting services to a broad range of clients. Craig has also been in

the marketing strategy for the program, providing executive and strategic support to the beneficiaries, and monitoring their progress. Mr. Oren holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, with honors, from The Open University of Jerusalem, with a concentration in Political Science and Communications. He is currently working toward an MBA at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. Previous to his work at The Jewish Agency, Mr. Oren was Director of Marketing for the Reut Community Mental Health Organization in Jerusalem. He also previously spent three years living in Houston, Texas, at Optimum Real Estate Investments. During his 3-year service for the IDF, he was a commander in the Paratroopers’ division.

Nati Passow (5000 Cedars/ Jewish Farm School) Nati Passow loves the pre-Thanksgiving farmers markets in Philadelphia more than life itself. He is the Founding Director of the Jewish Farm School and the Program Manager for Hazon Philadelphia.

Nati recently formed 5000 Cedars, a group of neighbors that is working to convert a vacant lot into a thriving green community space.

Julie Rezmovic-Tonti Julie Rezmovic-Tonti teaches Jewish History and Mishnah at Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax, VA. Julie and her husband Mat started an intentional nuclear family in 2007 with the birth of their daughter, Mayira Tonti and subsequently in 2009 Hami Tonti, and again in 2012 with the birth of Uri Tonti. They are excited to one day dwell amongst a land-based, Jewish community. They love celebrating Shabbat, going on bike rides, and having musical jams.

Josh Rosenstein (Pearlstone Center) Joshua Rosenstein spent the past eight years studying and teaching permaculture, sustainability and how to grow and preserve food. He developed the Adamah Dills value added product business in Connecticut, taught permaculture design courses in South Africa and developed community gardening projects in Jerusalem. He spent his first year at Pearlstone developing the animal program, his second year as Farm Manager and is currently serving as Farm Director at the Pearlstone Center.

ecology and the environment. David's book on ecology and Kabbalah will be published by Cambridge University next year. He has smikhah from JTS and from Reb Zalman. David ran the Vermont Moshav Network in the 80’s before attending rabbinical school.

Benzion Shamberg (Call of the Shofar) Benzion Shamberg is enthusiastic about inner wellbeing that promotes healthy relationships. As senior facilitator for Call of the Shofar, he teaches Jewish principles and tools for personal development, relational health and spiritual growth through experiential programs. He is also an acupuncturist and breathwork therapist. Benzion currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife, Erin, and 2 boys, Shaanan and Yedidya.

Shoshana Shamberg Shoshana Shamberg, an occupational therapist, special educator, potter, and owner of Abilities OT Services & Irlen Visual Learning Center, has been involved in secular spiritual and Jewish intentional community building since she was 14 years old (now an elder 60 years young). As a world traveler Yaffa Rubin (Living Tree Alliance) since 1971, she visited many communities to learn Yaffa serves as a steward, mentor, outdoor educator, middle school math and science teacher, about sustainability, natural birthing, crafts, raising a family in a village, and cultural/spiritual practices to and Hebrew school teacher while running a LC3 guide living on the planet. A wife of 32 years, called Roots and Trails; dedicated to ethically remother of 6, including mother of a 35 year old wilding the earth and guiding Jewish youth and daughter born on The Farm in Summertown, TN, families through programs which cultivate ecological awareness grounded in tradition. Yaffa is and grandmother of 5,Shoshana and her husband, Aaron, an urban farmer and landscape architect, grateful to help grow the Living Tree Alliance in have been involved with Pearlstone Farm since its Central Vermont. inception. Both live in Baltimore, MD, observe Torah Rabbi Sid Schwarz (Clal) Judaism as adults, and grew up in secular homes Rabbi Sid Schwarz is the director of Clal’s Clergy and communities.

Leadership Incubator (CLI) a new, two-year program for early career rabbis designed to create Kali Silverman (Habonim Dror) visionary spiritual leaders with the skills to transform Kali Silverman is the Mazkira Klalit, National Director, of Habonim Dror North America. She grew American synagogues. CLI is part of the Rabbis Without Borders portfolio of programs. Schwarz is up in Elkins Park, PA and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She was Rosh (Director) of Camp the author of Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Community (Jewish Galil (Ottsville, PA) in 2011 and 2012. Kali graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Lights) and Finding a Spiritual Home: How a New Geography and Urban Studies.

Generation of Jews can Transform the American Synagogue (Jewish Lights).

Yoni Stadlin (Eden Village Camp) Yoni Stadlin founded and directs Eden Village Rabbi David Seidenberg Rabbi David Seidenberg, founder of NeoHasid.org, Camp, the pluralistic Jewish organic farm-to-table sleepaway camp an hour north of NYC. In addition teaches text and music, Jewish thought and spirituality, in their own right and in relation to to Eden Village, he has experienced a wide variety

Jewish and other spiritual thought and practice to bear on seeking peace, pursuing justice, healing the earth, and celebrating community. He edits and writes for its weekly on-line Shalom Report. In 1996, Waskow was named by the United Nations a “Wisdom Keeper” among forty religious and intellectual leaders who met in connection with the Habitat II conference in Istanbul. In 2001, he was Roger Studley (Urban Moshav) presented with the Abraham Joshua Heschel Award Roger Studley is the founder of Urban Moshav, a by the Jewish Peace Fellowship. In 2005, he was non-profit established to develop Jewish cohousing. named by the Forward, the leading Jewish weekly An active Jewish leader, Roger has co-chaired a in America, one of the "Forward Fifty" as a leader of Hazon Food Conference, organized shechitot for the Jewish community. In 2007, he was named by two others, been an organizer of San Francisco's Newsweek one of the fifty moist influential American Mission Minyan, and co-founded Berkeley's East rabbis, and was presented with awards and honors Bay Minyan. He is married to Chai Levy, Rabbi of by groups as diverse as the Neighborhood Interfaith Congregation Kol Shofar in Tiburon, CA, and can't Movement of Philadelphia and the Muslim American wait to see their son Ezra frolicking in the play room Society Freedom Foundation. and open space of Berkeley Moshav, one of the Ari Witkin (Pearlstone Center) first-ever Jewish cohousing communities.

Ari Witkin is a native of Minneapolis and graduate of Karen Stupski (Heathcote) Goucher College, and the outgoing Apprenticeship Karen Stupski is a sustainability educator, grant and Multicultural Coordinator at the Pearlstone writer, and communitarian. She currently serves as Center. For the last two years Ari has had the a faculty member at Goddard College, incredible opportunity to make Pearlstone his home: Development Director for the Gunpowder Valley farming, teaching, and building community with and Conservancy (a watershed organization and land within Pearlstone’s unique organization. He trust) and Executive Director of School of Living (a coordinates Kulanu Inc.’s Jewish community community land trust). Karen lives at Heathcote programs in Kenya, is a member of the Jonah Community, an intentional community dedicated to House nonviolence and resistance community, and sustainable living, where she coordinates the an organizer and community builder. permaculture education program. of communal settings, from leading service-learning trips in Israel, Mexico and Turkey; to living aloft in endangered redwood trees with other activists; to currently being "intentional neighbors" in Beacon, NY, with friends with whom he and his wife share meals, childcare and taking care of chickens and compost.

Stephan Sylva (Eastern Village Cohousing) Stephan D. Sylvan co-founded the Eastern Village Cohousing Community, one of the most environmentally advanced residential buildings in the United States. Stephan is also Partnership Programs Coordinator for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, responsible for coordinating and advising EPA's 90 Voluntary Partnership Programs as part of EPA's National Center for Environmental Innovation. In a previous role, Stephan led the team that developed and launched the Energy Star Home Electronics family of programs. He also has contributed to several interfaith environmental projects.

Conference Staff

Yigal Deutscher (Hazon, Shmita Project Manager; 7Seeds) Yigal Deutscher, manager of the Shmita Project, is an educator, farmer, and permaculture designer.

After participating in the Adamah fellowship, he continued his training with the University of California, Santa Cruz (Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems), as well as with the Permaculture Research Institute in Australia. Until 2010, he was the farm manager and permaculture educator at the Chava v’Adam farm in Israel. He is the founder of 7Seeds, an educational platform combining Jewish teachings & Permaculture Design Rabbi Arthur Waskow (Shalom Center) strategies, as well as the author of 'Envisioning Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph. D., founded (in 1983) and directs The Shalom Center, a prophetic voice in Sabbatical Culture: A Shmita Manifesto.'

Jewish, multireligious, and American life that brings

Jakir Manela (Pearlstone, Executive Director) Jakir Manela is the executive director of the Pearlstone Center. Jakir came to Pearlstone in 2006 by way of the Teva Learning Center, COEJL, and the University of Wisconsin. Jakir founded and built the farm and program at Pearlstone, and now is responsible for the entire organization. Jakir is married to Netsitsah, and they have two sons Lev and Shama. The Manela family’s dream is to establish a land-based pluralistic Jewish community practicing sustainable agriculture and healthy living here at Pearlstone.

Ecology from Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. He lives in Falls Village, CT with his wife Megan, whom he met when she worked for the Adamah Farm & Fellowship at Isabella Freedman.

Neely Snyder (Pearlstone, Director of Signature Programs) Neely Snyder is the Director of Signature Programs at Pearlstone Center. She has dedicated 15+ years to the field of informal Jewish education in both lay and professional roles. Her experience includes directing the Baltimore chapter of TCI, serving Jewish teens in local non-Jewish independent Morris Panitz (Pearlstone, Director of Programs) schools, serving as Director of Informal Education Morris Panitz grew up in Norfolk, VA and attended at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in the University of MD where he studied Philosophy Philadelphia, various educator roles in Jewish day and Jewish studies. He participated in the Adamah and overnight camps, and holding professional and Fellowship, and served as an apprentice at Ocean volunteer positions with United Synagogue Youth.

Air farms before joining the team at Pearlstone Neely has a Master's Degree in Jewish Education Center in February. He is currently Director of from The Jewish Theological Seminary. She is Programs at the Pearlstone Center. passionate about providing pluralistic immersive experiences that support life-long development of Nigel Savage (Hazon, Executive Director) Jewish identity.

Nigel Savage, originally from Manchester, England, founded Hazon (Hebrew for "vision") in 2000.

Liz Traison (Hazon, Program Associate) Before founding Hazon Nigel was a professional Liz Traison is on her way to becoming a certified fund manager in the Wall Street equivalent in the health coach. She is a graduate of The University of UK. He has an MA in History from Georgetown, and Michigan where she received a BA in History and in learned at Pardes, Yakar and the Hebrew Judaic Studies. She also studied at Midreshet University. Hazon was recognized by the Sierra Lindenbaum and Hebrew University. She is thrilled Club as one of 50 leading faith-based to be a Program Associate at Hazon and also to be environmental organizations in the US. In 2008 doing social justice programming for MASA Alumni.

Nigel was named a member of the Forward 50 - the She likes being outside, particularly on Skeleton annual list of the 50 most influential Jewish people Lake. And also being inside, specifically doing in the United States. Nigel is thought to be the first creative workshops in prison.

English Jew to have cycled across South Dakota on David Weisberg (Isabella Freedman, Executive a recumbent bike.

Director) Adam 'Segulah' Sher (Isabella Freedman, David Weisberg has served as the Executive Director of Transformative Experiences) Director of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Adam 'Segulah' Sher serves as Hazon's Director of Center since the spring of 2011 and is set to Transformative Experiences, headquartered at become the CEO of Hazon following an Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. With a organizational merger. Prior to Freedman, David fantastic team, Segulah produces Elat Chayyim spent four years as the Executive Director of retreats, Hazon Bike Rides and Food Conferences, Friends of the Arava Institute. His Jewish Adamah Farms Vacations, the Teva Seminar on communal service career began in the late 1990’s, Environmental Education, Holiday festivals, and serving for nearly a decade as the CEO of the more. Segulah earned his Master's degree in Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg and the Transformative Education from Antioch Universit Jewish Community Center of Greater Harrisburg.

Seattle, and his Bachelor's degree in Noospheric

Community Gallery Room 103

Throughout the weekend, we encourage you to check out the displays in our Community Gallery. Intentional communities represented at the conference (Jewish and secular, American and Israeli, established and in formation) have brought information about their communities. Please visit, ask, explore, and learn!

Community

Representative

The Farm

Joel Kachinsky

Heathcote

Rachel Kriger

Camphill Village, Kimberton Hills

Felicity Jeans

Twin Oaks

Jess Little

Earthaven Ecovillage

Arjuna Da Silva

Mount Eden Ecovillage Eastern Village Cohousing

Steven Welzer Stephan Sylvan

Urban Moshav Matovu Farms Living Tree Alliance

Roger Studley Tovah Kinderlehrer Yaffa Rubin

Yiddish Farm

Yisroel Bass

Moishe Kavod House

Helen Bennett

Kibbutz Mishol Garin Shuva

James GrantRosenhead Aharon Ariel-Lavi

Kehilat Kama Kibbutz Kramim

Elik Almog Tamar Milstein

Teaser Intentional community living on three square miles in southern middle Tennessee; founded in 1971 Longstanding intentional community 30 miles north of Baltimore, MD Farming and handcrafting community; includes adults with developmental disabilities; founded 1972, Southeast PA Intentional community in rural Virginia; founded in 1967 Aspiring ecovillage in mountain forest setting near Asheville, NC founded 1995 Project in formation in New Jersey Urban garden condo community in Silver Spring, MD Jewish cohousing project in Berkeley, CA Holistic and educational farm in NW Pennsylvania; building community on site Multi-generational, ecologically oriented Jewish community in VT Organic Yiddish educational farm in Goshen, NY; building community on site Jewish Social Justice House in Boston, MA for young adults Biggest activist urban kibbutz in Israel, located in the north Eco-intentional community in North-Western Negev, Israel Urban community in Be’er Sheva, Israel Religiously diverse, ecologically based kibbutz in Northern Negev, Israel

SHABBAT AT JEWISH INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE

Hazon, Isabella Freedman, and Pearlstone strive to create an inclusive community throughout all of our events. As such, Shabbat can be a complicated time, since our participants come from all backgrounds and have a variety of personal customs. For some, this may be their first time experiencing Shabbat; others at the Conference may follow more traditional Halakha (law) regarding Shabbat. In crafting our Shabbat schedule, we have tried to create programming that will be of interest to all. Feel free to participate in the sessions and prayer services which you are accustomed to, or use this weekend to try something new.

If you have any questions about the customs of Shabbat or are lost during services, please ask those around you, especially the Hazon, Isabella Freedman, and Pearlstone staff. If you have never observed Shabbat as we are at the Conference, we hope that you will appreciate these customs and be respectful of those observing them as we strive to make our own Intentional Community this weekend.

A Day of Rest -- Shabbat is called a day of rest. The fourth of the Ten Commandments states, “For six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath…You shall not do any work.” Aside from doing physical work, people traditionally abstain from many things including using the telephone, turning on and off lights, cooking, using the computer, listening to or playing music, swimming and writing.

Others may use Shabbat as a time to specifically do these types of activities they don’t get to do during the rest of the week.

Candle Lighting -- All Jewish holidays begin at sunset, thus Shabbat begins at sundown on Friday night. We mark the transition from work week to Shabbat with the lighting of candles. This is a way to welcome in Shabbat, reflect on the past week and prepare for a day of rest before the week begins. Please join us at 4:30 for candle lighting, where we can bring Shabbat in as a community.

Friday Night Services -- Friday night services traditionally open with Kabalat Shabbat (literally, welcoming the Sabbath). This is a collection of Pslams, often recites in song and joy, especially the culminating poem, Lecha Dodi, which ends with the welcoming of the Sabbath Bride. We have a few different options for Friday night services, use this time to try something new or find something meaningful to you.

Friday Night Dinner -- Before we eat dinner on Friday night we will start by singing Shalom Aleichem, a poem welcoming angels into our midst. Following this song, we will chant the Kiddush, the blessing over the wine and the sanctification of the Day. We will

have one representative make Kiddush for the group, and you are welcome to make the blessing yourself if that is your custom. The next stage is the blessing over bread, but before that, people are invited to ritually wash their hands. It is customary not to talk between hand washing and the blessing over the bread. After HaMotzi, the blessing over the bread, the meal begins. Shabbat meals are often filled with song, and we hope you will join us in singing or follow along in the songbooks on the tables. We will end with Birkat HaMazon, grace after meals.

Morning Services -- In traditional Saturday morning services we read a portion from the Torah, which rotates each week. At this point in the annual cycle we are reading a series of laws from the end of Deuteronomy. We also read a Haftarah from the Hebrew prophets, which at this time of year comes from the book of Isaiah in preparation for the High Holidays. At this Conference we are thrilled to be able to offer a traditional Mechitza service, an Egalitarian service, and a Renewal service – in addition to a Torah yoga class!

Shabbat Day -- After Shabbat morning services, we make another blessing over wine in a special communal Kiddush. At lunch we will bless the bread and conclude with Grace after Meals. At the large Shabbat lunch, we will then start with the blessing over bread, done individually or by table. Because cooking is considered work, typical Shabbat lunch meals include cold food, and cholent (a stew that is left on the stove to simmer during Shabbat).

Havdalah -- Havdalah, (literally, separation), marks the end of Shabbat and the start of the new week. Havdalah is done as soon as three stars are visible in the sky. The rituals of Havdalah include blessings over drinking wine, smelling spices, seeing a flame of a candle, and a blessing on separation. Havdalah is intended to require a person to use all five senses: tasting wine, smelling spices, seeing fire and feeling its heat, and hearing blessings. Make sure to join us for a communal Havdallah filled with song and dance!

Glossary of Terms Intentional Community

An "intentional community" is a group of people who have chosen to live together with a common purpose, working cooperatively to create a lifestyle that reflects their shared core values. The people may live together on a piece of rural land, in a suburban home, or in an urban neighborhood, and they may share a single residence or live in a cluster of dwellings.

Sustainable Community

A sustainable community is one that is economically, environmentally, and socially healthy and resilient. It meets challenges through integrated solutions rather than through fragmented approaches that meet one of those goals at the expense of the others. And it takes a long-term perspective—one that's focused on both the present and future, well beyond the next budget or election cycle. As a result, a sustainable community manages its human, natural, and financial resources to meet current needs while ensuring that adequate resources are equitably available for future generations.

Cohousing

While cohousing communities may appear similar to some mainstream housing developments, the people forming cohousing communities organize to practice ideals of participation, cooperation, sharing, and knowing one's neighbors. Cohousing communities, typically, use private, home ownership as part of the community's economic model - making it relatively easy for forming groups to obtain construction and mortgage financing from conventional banks.

The vast majority of existing cohousing communities had considerable resident input into thedesign process as it unfolds. For neighborhood-level cohousing, site designs generally cluster housing with enhanced pedestrian and play areas to promote frequent, spontaneous human contact - cars (roads and parking) are usually deemphasized and set apart from the homes and primary common spaces. Cohousing can also take other forms, including large, shared buildings, and groups of existing dwellings that are retrofitted into Cohousing communities.

Income Sharing

Income sharing is a way of breaking down economic inequalities withing a community.

In communities where members work outside the community, it balances out the inequalities of different working conditions, income and stress. Often communards have very different jobs; some are self-employed, others are employees. Some are well paid, others less well paid. Some have greater job security, others are in precarious employment. Income sharing creates economic equality and security.

In communities where members work in communally owned businesses, it breaks down the inequalities which exist between the more successful enterprises and the ones which either break even or need subsidizing.

Kibbutz

The kibbutz is an original and unique Israeli creation – a multi-generation, rural settlement, characterized by its collective and cooperative community lifestyle, democratic management, responsibility for the welfare of each adult member and child, and shared ownership of its means of production and consumption.

Moshav

The moshavim are similar to kibbutzim with an emphasis on community labor. They were designed as part of the Zionist state-building program following the Yishuv ("settlement") in the British Mandate of Palestine during the early 20th century, but contrary to the collective kibbutzim, farms in a moshav tended to be individually owned but of fixed and equal size. Workers produced crops and goods on their properties through individual and/or pooled labour and resources and used profit and foodstuffs to provide for themselves. Moshavim are governed by an elected council.

Community projects and facilities were financed by a special tax. This tax was equal for all households of the community, thus creating a system where good farmers were better off than bad ones, unlike in the communal kibbutzim where (at least theoretically) all members enjoyed the same living standard.

Open Source Village

Open Source Village is being created to provide blueprints, tools, tutorials, and as many resources as possible to streamline, simplify, and facilitate the launching of additional projects. Additionally, One Community and all its components are being designed to be duplicated either modularly or as a complete self-sufficient and selfreplicating teacher/demonstration community, village, or city

Community Land Trust

A Community Land Trust (CLT) is a form of ownership for the common good with a charter based on the principles of sustainable and ecologically-sound stewardship and use. The land in a CLT is held in trust by a democratically-governed non-profit corporation. Through an inheritable and renewable long-term lease, the trust removes land from the speculative market and facilitates multiple uses such as affordable housing, village improvement, commercial space, agriculture, recreation, and open space preservation. Individual leaseholders own the buildings and other improvements on the land created by their labor and investment, but do not own the land itself. Resale agreements on the buildings ensure that the land value of a site is not included in future sales, but rather held in perpetuity on behalf of the regional community.

Cooperatives

A cooperative ("coop") or co-operative ("co-op") is an autonomous association of persons who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual, social, economic, and cultural benefit.[1] Cooperatives include non-profit community organizations and businesses that are owned and managed by the people who use its services (a consumer cooperative) or by the people who work there (a worker cooperative) or by the people who live there (a housing cooperative), hybrids such as worker cooperatives that are also consumer cooperatives or credit unions, multi-stakeholder cooperatives such as those that bring together civil society and local actors to deliver community needs, and second and third tier cooperatives whose members are other cooperatives.

Egalitarian Communities

Holds its land, labor, income and other resources in common. Assumes responsibility for the needs of its members, receiving the products of their labor and distributing these and all other goods equally, or according to need. Practices non-violence. Uses a form of decision making in which members have an equal opportunity to participate, either through consensus, direct vote, or right of appeal or overrule. Actively works to establish the equality of all people and does not permit discrimination on the basis of race, class, creed, ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Acts to conserve natural resources for present and future generations while striving to continually improve ecological awareness and practice. Creates processes for group communication and participation and provides an environment which supports people's development.

Adam Lauren Elik Moshe Hana Yisroel Dr. Allison Rachel Helen Phyllis Ori David David Lizzy Aaron Sarah Jacob Rachael Raines Yishai Nick Arjuna Perri Yigal Janna Ira Leemor Benji Nora Alana Josh Yoshi Stephan Caitlin Mark (Moshe) David Joel Ranai Itai Adam Levi Johanna Eliana

Allenberg Allenberg Almog Arazi Askren Bass Bell Bender Bennett Berman Bieder Blank Bronstein Cantor Catz Chandler Chationver Cohen Cohen Cohen Corso Da Silva DeJarnette Deutscher Diamond Dounn Ellman Elson Feldhusen Fichman Fidler Fields Fineberg Sylvan Fisch Fisch Fisher Frankel Friedman Gal Gillman Gershkowitz Ginsberg Golding

adam.allenberg@gmail.com adam.allenberg@gmail.com elik@torhamidbar.org.il moshe.arazi@gmail.com noahgpalmer@gmail.com yisroel@yiddishfarm.org anjohnson55@hotmail.com rachkbender@gmail.com helenmiriambennett@gmail.com Bermanpo@aol.com ohbieder@gmail.com dblank@pearlstonecenter.org thebronz@gmail.com lizzcantor@gmail.com yavnehcollective@gmail.com sarah@isabellafreedman.org jchat564@gmail.com r.copp.cohen@gmail.com raines@mac.com yishai@tevalearningalliance.org tangofranko@hotmail.com arjuna@earthaven.org pdejarnette@pearlstonecenter.org yigal.deutscher@hazon.org jannadiamond@gmail.com idounn@bbyo.org laellman@yahoo.com benjielson1@gmail.com norafeld@gmail.com alanafichman@gmail.com josh@chesapeakerealtypartners.com

ypfields10@gmail.com stephan.sylvan@gmail.com caitfisch@gmail.com caitfisch@gmail.com david@kavodhouse.com jfrankel@jfedstl.org playacheetah@yahoo.com itai@kavodhouse.com adamgillman18@gmail.com levi@pearlstonecenter.org jginsberg@njjewishnews.com eliana.golding@gmail.com

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Goodman Grant-Rosenhead Greenberg Greenberg Greenspun Greenvald Gropper Havusha Hellmann Holt Holzer Husbands-Hankin Husbands-Hankin Jacobs Jeans Jedeikin Johnson Kachinsky Karsif Katz Kinderlehrer Klapper Kornfeld Kriger Kudler-Flam Laio Lankin Laster Lavi Lavi Levavi Levine Levine Little Littman London-Oshkello Manela Manela Markowitz Marti Mattanah Meir-Levi Menyuk

bag@agiweb.org james@tikkun.org.il lauren.greenberg@hazon.org yadidyamg@gmail.com artistinmd@aol.com reuvengre@jafi.org michael@moishehouse.org havusha@gmail.com maxwellakiva@gmail.com staceyfelice@gmail.com holzer.jen@gmail.com yitzhh@comcast.net shonnahh@aol.com robyn@pettagcreations.com felicity@camphillkimberton.org teri.jedi@gmail.com anjohnson55@hotmail.com jrkach@hotmail.com jessie.karsif@hazon.org rrraeee@yahoo.com tovahkind@gmail.com klappershira@gmail.com buyitboulder@gmail.com rkrigs@gmail.com miriam.kudlerflam@gmail.com uriel613@gmail.com nina.lankin@gmail.com tlaster36@gmail.com arilavi@gmail.com eliata9@gmail.com gigil276@gmail.com larkstreet@gmail.com shellevine@gmail.com jess@twinoaks.org neshama.leigh.littman@gmail.com

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Laura Mira Art Sherry Tamar Aitan Lee Danielle Cathy Elliott Rachel Tehilla Blair Tzur Craig Noah Morris Nati Aaron Valerie Isaac Lilly Mitch Rose Mark Amy Naomi Julie Josh David Yaffa Rikki Liz Nigel David Larry Sid Rivka David Benzion James (Aaron) Shoshana Adam Segulah

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