Rethinking “spiritual” communities—Jewish women’s wisdom circles
In 2018, after a fall full of Jewish holidays, six women sat around a kitchen table in Washington, D.C. to answer two questions: What are Jewish women* missing and needing in a communal setting most urgently in this moment? And how do we ensure that the structure of “Jewish community” is operating as a tool to empower individual women by coming together as a collective? These two questions formed the backbone of SVIVAH, and inform our programming to this day. We gathered women from across the greater Washington DC area and centered the conversations between the people in the room, […]