Institute for Jewish Spirituality

Institute for Jewish Spirituality Cultivating Mindfulness. Deepening Connection. Enlivening Jewish Life. Cultivating mindful leaders. Revitalizing Jewish life.

09/08/2026

Meditation Sit

Next up in our Humans of IJS series is our Chief Operating Officer!You can always rely on Alyse for some "trashy TV" tal...
09/08/2026

Next up in our Humans of IJS series is our Chief Operating Officer!

You can always rely on Alyse for some "trashy TV" talk, or to hear about the latest adventures of her family!📺

🍏Starting tomorrow! Join Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell and Rebecca Schisler on your yearly journey through the High Holiday...
09/08/2026

🍏Starting tomorrow! Join Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell and Rebecca Schisler on your yearly journey through the High Holidays. Allow yourself to engage meaningfully and mindfully with the fall holidays.

🍯Together we will explore both traditional and contemporary rituals and practices associated with each holiday, and find ways to connect with the spirituality of the moment.

🔗Sign up now here: https://bit.ly/4x9X2MZ

09/06/2026

🍯What if holidays aren't actually about the holidays? It's not about what we do for them, it's about what they do and give to us.

🍎Learn with Jordan Bendat-Appell how to mindfully engage with these holidays, and how they can help us to connect more deeply with ourselves.

🔗Learn more and register at the link in our bio!

📰In such turbulent times, how can we stay grounded and present without letting the fear and stress sweep us away?🌀Mindfu...
09/04/2026

📰In such turbulent times, how can we stay grounded and present without letting the fear and stress sweep us away?

🌀Mindful Civic Engagement: Spiritual Qualities for Wise Response invites us to explore how Jewish mindfulness and the study of middot (sacred spiritual character traits) can help us respond to the pressing issues of our time with in a more mindful manner.

🍃In this 6 week course, Rabbi Marc Margolius and guest teachers Rabbis Sharon Brous, David Inger, Sharon Kleinbaum, Rachel Timoner, Isiah Rothstein, and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi will explore qualities like steadfastness, strength, joy, love, truth, and perseverance as spiritual resources for civic engagement.

🔗Learn more and register here: https://bit.ly/4qCkyiQ

In this week’s blog, Rabbi Josh Feigelson reflects on his recent visit to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights...
09/04/2026

In this week’s blog, Rabbi Josh Feigelson reflects on his recent visit to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

“You stand this day, all of you, before YHVH your God,” says Moses, “your tribal heads, your elders, and your officials—the entire body of Israel—your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer” (Deut. 29:9-10).

In other words, it takes all of us. No group of people—not African-Americans, not Jews, not Muslims, not anyone—should be made to sacrifice themselves for another. Rather, as the phrase goes:

None of us is free until all of us are free. ⚖️

https://www.jewishspirituality.org/teshuva-is-a-compassionate-heart-nitzavim-vayelekh-5786/

09/04/2026

Sit into Shabbat on the IJS Daily Sit with Cantor Julie Newman of the Tiferet Project!

Nitzavim/Vayelech reminds us to choose life, because we belong to each other. Thank you to for sharing this week's ...
09/03/2026

Nitzavim/Vayelech reminds us to choose life, because we belong to each other.

Thank you to for sharing this week's

As we prepare to enter a new Jewish year, many of us are carrying a great deal in our hearts. Whatever you carry, Jewish...
09/03/2026

As we prepare to enter a new Jewish year, many of us are carrying a great deal in our hearts. Whatever you carry, Jewish tradition offers a simple, but deeply meaningful response:

Hineni.
Here I am.

Showing up is where the journey begins, and all of us at IJS are here to meet you there, to be present with you. Hinenu: We are here together.

However you arrive in this moment as we prepare to turn the page on a new year, thank you for sharing your presence with us. May this be a year in which we continue to meet one another—and ourselves—with openness, compassion, and courage.

09/03/2026

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