Jewish UX: A Two-Day Passover Laboratory for Bay Area Jewish Educators

3921 Fabian Way,Palo Alto CA 94303

21 March, 2022

Description

With Dan Libenson and Tova Birnbaum How is this Passover different from all other Passovers? This year it's about the User Experience: the educator (you!) and the community member! A few days after Purim, we, Bay Area Jewish educators, will take time for ourselves to make sure this Passover is different. We will take two full days and immerse ourselves in a hands-on laboratory experience. Monday, March 21, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM AND Tuesday, March 22, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM What will we do together? LEARN - new things about the holiday. Go deeper and wider, discover lesser-known traditions, and be inspired by other cultures with similar rituals and themes. CREATE - Each of us will come out of this experience with a new finished idea for this year. You will choose one part of Passover to focus on, and we will help each other create new meaningful ways to mark the holiday of renewal and freedom. CONNECT - with others, while enhancing our local professional community, and with our tradition, in new and surprising ways. Who is this experience for? Bay Area Jewish educators from across all settings: Jewish Day Schools, Synagogues, Hillel, JCCs, Rabbis, independent educators, etc. The workshop will be facilitated bt Dan Libenson and Tova Birnbaum Dan Libenson is the founder and executive director of Judaism Unbound and the UnYeshiva digital center for Jewish learning and unlearning. He is also the co-host of the Judaism Unbound podcast and The Oral Talmud videocast. Dan was Executive Director of the University of Chicago Hillel for six years and Director of New Initiatives at Harvard Hillel for three years.Dan attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude. He has published articles in Ha'aretz, The New York Jewish Week, Zeek, eJewishPhilanthropy, and elsewhere, and he is the translator of The Orchard by Israeli novelist Yochi Brandes and the translation editor of The Secret Book of Kings by the same author. Dan spent five years as a law professor after clerking for Judge Michael Boudin on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He lives in Chicago with his wife, two children, and two dogs. Tova Birnbaum is the Director of Jewish Content at the Oshman Family JCC. She was born in B'nai B'rak in an Ultra-Orthodox home and was one of the founders of the BINA Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv. Tova is also a faculty member of the Mandel Educational Leadership Program and has previously served as the Central Shlicha (emissary), Director of the North America Region of the World Zionist Organization. She is a Judaic studies teacher, Theater Midrash workshop facilitator, and a secular Jewish lifecycle ceremonies officiant. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and Jewish philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a master's degree in theater from Tel Aviv University. She lives in Mountain View, California with her husband and daughter. IMPORTANT COVID-19 INFORMATION: All attendees at this event will be required to show either proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours of the event. Either a physical COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card or the State of California Digital COVID-19 Vaccination Card may be offered as proof of full vaccination. Masks are required for all indoor spaces at the OFJCC.