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Throughout the Shabbaton, there will be four opportunities for tracked breakout sessions, during which one session from each track will be offered. These sessions allow you to customize your experience, attending the session that you find most relevant to you and your campus's community. Students may attend all sesssions within a single track, or may choose to attend sessions from multiple tracks. Below you'll find a brief overview of each track. 

 

 

Prayer & Song Leading

Participants will explore how to create meaningful and inspiring prayer environments. Student leaders will leave with practical prayer leading skills, and will also grapple with bigger questions related to Traditional Egalitarian prayer.

 

Participants will…

  • Explore the choreography of a prayer service;

  • Discuss how to incorporate meaning, or kavanah, into prayer;

  • Learn how to write and give a thought-provoking Dvar;

  • Learn the characteristics of a good prayer leader;

  • Practice and grow increasingly comfortable with prayer leading;

  • Gain ideas for how to maintain energy in prayer services;

  • Discuss the boundaries of halachic permissibility in a traditional egalitarian prayer service.

Jewish Education

Participants will explore how to create engaging and thought provoking Jewish educational opportunities for their peers. Student leaders will leave with practical skills for how to plan, advertise, and run educational sessions.

 

Participants will:

  • Have the opportunity to engage with critical Jewish texts;

  • Gain tools and resources to become effective Jewish educators;

  • Learn how to facilitate Jewish learning on their campuses;

  • Share successful past learning initiatives with each other;

  • Learn effective marketing language to help advertise and excite their peers about Jewish learning.

Community Building

Participants will explore how to create strong Traditional-Egalitarian Jewish communities on college campuses. Recognizing that a community goes far beyond prayer, participants will explore what other events or strategies will help create passionate and close on-campus Jewish communities.

 

Participants will…

  • Learn strategies from students who have reinvigorated the Traditional-Egalitarian Jewish community on their campus;

  • Gain an understanding of how to conduct effective outreach;

  • Explore how to recognize potential community members;

  • Discuss how to effectively use social media;

  • Look at lessons from the Torah and other Jewish texts on community building;

  • Understand how to cater programming to the desires and needs of their respective community.

Navigation

Participants will explore what the Traditional-Egalitarian and Conservative movement looks like both in America and throughout the world. They will do this with a focus on understanding how the work we are doing on college campuses fits into the bigger picture of American and World Jewry. Additionally, students will explore the role unique role Traditional-Egalitarian communities on Jewishly-diverse college campuses.

 

Participants will…

  • Gain a better understanding of what the Masorti movements looks like outside of college campuses;

  • Learn practical tools to understand how to effectively work with existing Jewish organizations to obtain resources and counsel;

  • Learn about exciting post-college leadership, educational, and service opportunities for Traditional-Egalitarian Jewish leaders;

  • Explore the greater purpose of Traditional Egalitarian Jewry on college campuses, in America, in Israel, and in the world.

  • Discuss how to navigate among diverse on campus communities, and how to work with on-campus orthodox or reform communities to create an effective pluralistic on-campus environment.

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