Teaching towards Connection: A Jewish Pedagogies Symposium on Peoplehood and T’fillah
When Jewish learning is rooted in peoplehood and prayer, connection deepens. Over the past year, Jewish Peoplehood and T’fillah Fellows have explored how to teach toward these aims with intention and creativity.
Join us to learn from their pedagogy and take away new ideas and resources for your own educational practice.
VIRTUAL
20 RESEARCH FELLOWS
March 18, 2026
12:00-2:30 pm ET / 9-11:30 AM PT / 6-8:30 PM Israel
Symposium highlights
Welcome & What are We Teaching Towards?
Kavanot
with Rav Jeremy Tibbetts
“In Her Image: A Pedagogy for Feminine Prayer and Transforming Community”
Rabbi Stacey Blank (T’fillah)
“T’fillah as a Pedagogy of Embodied Resilience and Sacred Regeneration”
Rabbi Batya Elana Ellinoy (T’fillah)
“Machloket as Method: Teaching Jewish Peoplehood Through Historical Fracture”
Alexandria Fanjoy Silver (Peoplehood)
“Drawing Out a New Torah”
Jacqueline Nicholls (Peoplehood)
“Hitnakdut: Preparing for Prayer Leadership Through Intentional Connecting to Self, Community, and the Divine”
Rabbi Rory Katz (T’fillah)
“פַּתְקִיּוֹת דְּבֵקוּת – Notes of Cleaving / Post-it Prayers”
→ Becca Weintraub (T’fillah)
“Havrutah: Relational Learning and the Making of a People”
Sophie Goldblum (Peoplehood)
“Pedagogy of Hiddush”
→ Avidan Halivni (Peoplehood)
Tuning In with Rabbi Batya Elana Ellinoy
Rabbi Batya Elana Ellinoy
BREAK
“The Language of Intention: Kabbalistic Kavanot in Practical Translation”
Rav Jeremy Tibbetts (T’fillah)
Imprinting the Words
Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer (T’fillah)
“Primary Sources as a Portal to Peoplehood”
Shuvi Hoffman (Peoplehood)
“הֲלָכָה חָדְשִׁית: A Pedagogy Of Invitation to Playful Praxis”
Scott Slarskey (T’fillah)
“On Being a Lifelong Learner: Cultivating Hitlamdut and Growth Mindset in T’fillah Education”
Aliza Abolafia (T’fillah)
“The Things We Carry: A Migrant’s Passport”
Dr. Analucía Lopezrevoredo (Peoplehood)
“A Practice of Awe for Families”
Deborah Niederman, RJE (Peoplehood)
A Peoplehood Practice
with Adam Eilath & Clare Goldwater
“Praying Cards: Praying with Playing Cards, Playing with Praying Cards”
Oren Kaunfer (T’fillah)
“Girsa deYankuta”
Isaac Montagu (T’fillah)
“Questions Imbued with Kavod – A Path to Peoplehood”
Stacey Aviva Clark (Peoplehood)
“From Believing to Beyonding: Rethinking Jewish Identity Education”
Rabbi Reuven Spolter (Peoplehood)
“A Relational Mosaic of the Jewish People”
Mikhael Kesher (Peoplehood)
Closing: “From Jewish Education to an Education that is Jewish”
Rabbi Lisa Goldstein
Fellows' Resources
Each fellow’s brand new Jewish pedagogy – created alongside scholars, artists, and content experts – will be available for download to infuse your work and uplift your practice.
THE PRESENTERS
M²’s Research Fellowships are generously supported by The Covenant Foundation and Taube Philanthropies, and are delivered in partnership with The Z3 Project for Pedagogies of Peoplehood and The Hadar Institute for Pedagogies of T’fillah.