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Faith
Leener
Founder, Chief Innovation Officer
Base, Pardes Institute
Pedagogies of Wellbeing Research Fellowship
Wellbeing Cohort 1
A paid, ten-month virtual fellowship for master educators to research and develop educational practices that enrich the field of T’fillah that honors both ancient traditions and contemporary spiritual needs, ensuring that prayer remains a powerful and relevant practice.
M² is proud to partner with Hadar in launching the Pedagogies of Tfillah Research Fellowship
Register for an interest session to learn more about M² Research Fellowships.
Don’t see a time that works for you? Please contact Saadiah McIntosh at saadiah@ieje.org.
January 29-30, 2025
February 6, February 20, & - March 6, 2025 | 12:00-2:00 ET
March 20, 2025| 11:00-3:00 ET
April 3, April 24, & May 8, 2025 | 12:00-2:00 ET
May 26, 2025 | 11:00-3:00 ET
June 5 & 19, 2025 | 12:00-2:30 ET
July- August, 2025
September 4, 2025 | 11:00-2:30 ET
September 18; October 23 & 30; November 6, 2025 | 12:00-2:00pm ET
November 20, 2025
March 18, 2026
Mollie has over 10 years experience teaching in a variety of Jewish educational settings – from formal classroom teaching to nature education, theatre education to collaborative philanthropy education. She enjoys being in the field, as well as building programs and trainings to support others. Mollie holds a double Masters in Midrash and Jewish Experiential Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary, a BA in Religion from Bard College, and is a graduate
of M²’s Senior Educators Cohort. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and children.
Rabbi Lisa Goldstein is a teacher, consultant, and certified practitioner of NARM, a modality of healing complex trauma. She teaches a wide variety of online courses with an emphasis on spiritual wisdom, prayer and meditation, and the teachings of R. Nahman of Breslov. She also works one-on-one to support people in their journeys of healing and spiritual growth.
Educated at Brown University and Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Goldstein has almost 25 years of executive experience, having served as the director of Hillel of San Diego, and the executive director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. She is a mentor for M2’s Senior Educator Cohort and a Teaching Assistant for NARM’s Online Basic Training.
She lives in New York City with her husband, Igal Harmelin, and their foster son, Seydou.
Rabbi Miriam-Simma Walfish is faculty at Hadar and a Senior Coach for Pedagogy of Partnership. She holds a PhD in Rabbinics from Harvard University. She sees Torah study as a rich conversation between us and the voices of our tradition and is especially interested in having those conversations in the area of gender and embodiment. Her other interests include rabbinic approaches parenting and education. She has published several articles, including, “Upending the Curse of Eve: Reframing Maternal Breastfeeding in BT Ketubot” (2017). Rabbi Walfish has taught Tanakh, Talmud, and Jewish Law in numerous settings including the Conservative Yeshiva, Hadar, Harvard University, Hebrew College, and the National Havurah Committee’s summer institute. She revels in the process of learning Torah with and from her students.
The application for the 2025 fellowship is September 1, 2024.
In order to maximize the gain from the program and from the combined wisdom in the room, we expect fellows to fully participate in all aspects of the program; however, you can miss up to two sessions for an unexpected circumstance.
We believe in creating ideologically pluralistic spaces. The cohort will include participants of all backgrounds.
After the completion of the Pedagogies of T’fillah Research Fellowship, fellows will share their work with the larger Jewish educational field during an online symposium that they will help develop.
This program is a living laboratory of Jewish Peoplehood and as such we welcome Jewish Educators from across the globe, providing they are able to meet at midday ET.
Apply here. Please expect to invest at least two hours to complete the application. You are welcome to work on the essay questions in advance, which can be found here.
The fellowship is designed for you to take time to reflect on yourself as an educator. You will also be working with the faculty members, who are immersed in the world of pedagogy and can help you become even more articulate about educational practices and pedagogies.
Fellows will receive $2000 over the course of the fellowship. They will receive $1000 after submitting the first draft of their research paper and $1000 after submitting their final draft and resource.
The program will be conducted in English but for those who feel more comfortable in Hebrew, it will be possible to write their final deliverables in that language. Also, all the faculty speak Hebrew fluently.
M²’s Research Fellowships are run with support from the Covenant Foundation, and Taube Philanthropies.