Recorded Sessions from Tikkun Zoom Shavuot 2024
25 Hours of Online Learning
Starting Tuesday, June 11 at 5:00 p.m.
Full Schedule
Course Descriptions
Join us on Tuesday, June 11th through Wednesday, June 12th for our Tikkun Zoom Shavuot. Learn alongside people from around the world as dozens of teachers, artists, and facilitators lead us in study, prayer, art making, music and more over 25 hours in the zoomosphere. Sessions run back to back all night and day, and you can pop in for an hour or two, or brew a pot of coffee and stay with us for the long haul. We will have two special events this year – Temple Israel’s own “Tiny Desk” concert with Zach Mayer on Tuesday evening at 8:00 p.m., streamed live from Cantor Stillman’s office, and an onsite Blintz-making workshop facilitated by Mamaleh’s to end the holiday on Wednesday at 5:00 p.m.
Shavuot is free for all who wish to participate. To get the complete list of classes and Zoom links, please register here.
How to Participate Online:
There will be four online spaces hosting learning sessions during Tikkun Zoom Shavuot:
- Room 1 – Features back-to back learning sessions and holiday celebrations beginning at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 11 and ending at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12. Click once and stay for the full 25 hours, or come and go as needed.
- Room 2 & Room 3 – Join us for learning sessions throughout the evening on Tuesday and all day Wednesday.
- Vimeo – TI’s “Tiny Desk” live from Cantor Stillman’s office will be streamed on Vimeo, Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. Tiny Desk Concert featuring Zach Mayer and Cantor Alicia Stillman.
Tune in for an intimate concert with Boston-based musician: Zach Mayer LIVE from Cantor Stillman’s office at Temple Israel. Zach will play, sing, and move between piano, saxophone, and the famous ‘tiny desk’ as he teaches us about the power of song through his own original music. Zach will feature music from his two albums Modeh Ani and Zamru, as well as newly released: Electronic Jerusalem.Zach is a Rising Song Fellow and brings people together through nigunim, spiritual wordless melodies, rooted in Jewish tradition. Zach channels his family lineage of the four generations of cantors before him, as he helps communities around the country find their own joyous voices in song. Zach has performed with John Zorn, Frank London, Michael Alpert, Joey Weisenberg, and Bobby McFerrin. Zach has been on the faculty at the Brandeis Institute of Music and Art and Laguardia Arts High School in Manhattan, and teaches regularly at the KlezKanada Jewish music festival in Lantier, QC. He resides in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife Eliana.
www.zachmayermusic.com
Have questions? Email Lily Kaufman at cajl@tisrael.org.
Mixed Presence on Wednesday, June 12:
Yizkor Service 4:30 p.m.
There will be a Blintz Making Workshop led by Rachel Sundet of Mamaleh’s at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12th.
The workshop will be followed by food and shmoozing, with a dairy-full (and dairy-free!) selection provided by Mamaleh’s starting at 6:00 p.m.
Please indicate on the registration form whether you will be joining us onsite on Wednesday, and feel free to contact cajl@tisrael.org if you have any questions.
All are welcome to join any session, any time. Please Register Here.
Shavuot to Juneteenth: A Journey Toward Liberation
The holiday of Shavuot marks the giving of the Torah to the Israelites at Mount Sinai, seven weeks after the biblical exodus from slavery in Egypt. Soon after we observe Shavuot, we celebrate the Federal Holiday Juneteenth which marks the emancipation from slavery in the U.S. We invite you to participate in “Shavuot to Juneteenth: A Journey Toward Liberation” in multiple ways onsite and online.
We kick-off on Shavuot with several learning sessions offered in Room 2 through the theme of “Shavuot to Juneteenth”. Learn more here. Contact Rabbi Dan Slipakoff at dslipakoff@tisrael.org with questions.
Featured Shavuot to Juneteenth Course Offerings
A Community of Care: Opportunities and responsibilities to support incarcerated and returning citizens through educational programming.
A Community of Care: Opportunities and responsibilities to support incarcerated and returning citizens through educational programming.
Rabbi Dan Slipakoff with Staff from Partakers and the Boston College Prison Education Program
Join us in a transformative conversation dedicated to the vital importance of education for incarcerated individuals and returning citizens. Learn alongside participants and graduates of the Partakers program, as we discover innovative strategies and collaborative opportunities to enhance reentry programming. Together, we will foster a community of care and shared responsibility, supporting returning citizens on their journey to reintegration.
Beyond Diversity - Supporting Workforce Development for BIPOC Employees
Beyond Diversity – Supporting Workforce Development for BIPOC Employees
Amanda McFarland
This session will focus on how to move beyond diversity and toward inclusion in the workplace, including discussions of key workplace development strategies improve BIPOC employees’ experiences. This session will also cover strategies to improve BIPOC inclusion in organizational leadership and challenges faced by BIPOC leaders.
Jewish Cuba
Jewish Cuba facilitated by George Garcia
Jazzmen: A conversation with award-winning biographer Larry Tye
Jazzmen: A conversation with award-winning biographer Larry Tye with Ellen Clegg
Journalist Larry Tye’s latest book traces the careers of three titans of jazz: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Louis Armstrong. Tye, the best-selling author of biographies of Robert Kennedy, Satchel Paige, and others, makes the story of jazz in 20th Century America come alive, and captures the voices and struggles of these iconic Black artists as they rose to prominence.
Gun Violence Prevention: Prioritizing Policy Reforms, Mental Health, and Community Interventions
Gun Violence Prevention: Prioritizing Policy Reforms, Mental Health, and Community Interventions facilitated by Katie Siegel
Unpaid and Overworked: A Study of Unpaid Internships, Labor Law, and the Long Struggle for Fair Treatment in the American Workplace
Unpaid and Overworked: A Study of Unpaid Internships, Labor Law, and the Long Struggle for Fair Treatment in the American Workplace
Maddie Solomon
Unpaid internships, although normalized, are simply another iteration of unpaid labor affecting marginalized groups, but collectively and predominately affecting young people as they join the workforce. While much research has been dedicated to the disparities unpaid internships perpetuate, scant attention has been paid to how the fight for paid internships can be contextualized within other American labor movements that have historically used the courts as a tool for social change. In this session, we’ll explore what unpaid internships have in common with other labor inequities, what legal protections broadly exist for interns, and how the fight to end unpaid internships connects to a greater conversation about social inequality.
School Desegregation and the Impact of the case Brown v. Board of Education
Join Morgan Metsch in a talk about Brown v. Board of Education and how it has impacted schools today.
Tikkun Zoom Shavuot is offered by the Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Israel of Boston, in partnership with Hebrew College, JArts, The JCC of Greater Boston, The Jewish Women’s Archive, Keshet, Ohabei Shalom of Brookline, MA, Washington Hebrew Congregation of Washington, DC, Congregation Dorshei Tzedek of Newton, MA, Temple Beth Elohim of Wellesley, MA, Temple Beth Zion of Brookline, MA, Stephen Wise Temple and Schools of Los Angeles, CA, Temple Beth El of Bloomfield Hills, MI, Temple Beth El of City Island, NY. Fat Torah, Kol Tikvah of Woodland Hills, CA, and the Jewish Studio Project. To join us as a community partner, contact Rabbi Suzie Jacobson at sjacobson@tisrael.org