Apply to be the 2025 Liturgist-in-Residence
Rebuild With Love
–נבנה על ידי אהבה
נשוב להבנות, והעולם עמנו יבנה, על ידי אהבת חנם
Applications are due by January 8, 2025. Learn more about Summer Institute here.
What you’ll be responsible for
The Liturgist-in-Residence will lead workshops and programs on creating liturgy, reimagining prayers, and designing new rituals, focusing on contemporary prayer experiences that reflect the NHC community’s diversity.
What you’ll receive
Free registration for Summer Institute (in a double occupancy room).
About the role and application process
The National Havurah Committee is seeking applicants for the position of Liturgist-in-Residence at the 2025 Summer Institute. Here are the requirements:
- Experience in creating liturgy, liturgical poetry, or new rituals: The Liturgist-in-Residence will be responsible for offering a series of special programs related to these areas.
- Ability to lead workshops and programs: The position requires presenting at least three independent workshops and potentially leading or participating in innovative prayer experiences, evening or Shabbat programs, activities for kids or teens, or community programs.
- Focus on contemporary prayer experiences: The Liturgist-in-Residence should focus on creating and sharing contemporary prayer experiences and/or rituals that embrace, reflect, and celebrate the NHC community’s diversity.
- Commitment to the Summer Institute: The Liturgist-in-Residence will receive full tuition and housing to attend the Institute but is responsible for their own travel arrangements and NHC membership dues.
Additional information:
Theme: The theme for Summer Institute 2025 is “Rebuild with Love – Ahavat Chinam.” While applications that incorporate this theme are welcome, they are not required.
Focus: The position is focused on creating new prayers, reinterpreting prayers, or designing new rituals, rather than teaching traditional liturgical skills, nusach, or service leading methods.
Who should apply
We encourage Jews of Color and marginalized communities whose original liturgy reflects their challenges, dreams, interpretations, and variations of Jewish prayers to apply. The Liturgist-in-Residence will be a catalyst to create and share contemporary prayer experiences and/or rituals that embrace, reflect, and celebrate the NHC community’s racial, religious, and social diversity.
Prior Liturgists-in-Residence are not eligible to apply again.
Past Liturgists-in-Residence
2024 – Tmimah Ickovits
● 2023 – Sarah Chandler
● 2022 – Eliana Light
● 2021– Devon Spier
● 2020– Rachel Barenblat
● 2019 — Ellen Dreskin
● 2018 – Linda Hirschhorn
● 2017 – Mitch Chefitz
● 2016 – Malkah Binah Klein and Aliza Arzt
● 2015 – Alden Solovy
● 2014 – Trisha Arlin
● 2013 – Adam Lavitt and Adina Allen
● 2011 – Miriam Margles
Thank you to our funders
The Liturgist-in-Residence position is sponsored by a donation from Barry Walfish, Mark Frydenberg, Ben Dreyfus, Miriam-Simma Walfish, and Elizabeth Richman, the editors of L’chu N’ran’nah: An Egalitarian Traditional Bencher with an Alternative Edge, with gratitude to the NHC Community. For more information about the L’chu N’ran’nah bencher, see http://birkat.org
Questions?
Email liturgist@havurah.org
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