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Judaism UnboundEpisode 450: Teshuva -- High Holidays...in a Kayak - Keshira haLev FifeKeshira haLev Fife, a kohenet (Jewish priestess), ritual designer, community-weaver, and founder of Kesher Pittsburgh joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. How might we more effectively orient to the notion of teshuva (often translated “repentance” or “return”) over these 10 days? Could floating in kayaks have something to do with how we might re-invent these High Holidays? This episode is the third in a Judaism Unbound mini-series, helping listeners prepare for the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.Head to JudaismUnbound.com/classes to check out our up upcoming 8-week co...2024-09-2757 min
Jewish Meditation for EveryoneAlone, TogetherThe inaugural episode of Jewish Meditation for Everyone, “Alone, Together,” features a meditation by IJS Faculty fellow Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife, about being "alone, together" -- being aware of our profound interconnectedness, mutual responsibility, and need for a supportive community, in a season in which we go deep into ourselves as individuals. Kohenet Keshira grounds this teaching and practice in a powerful memory of growing up going to High Holiday services with her dad at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh PA.2023-09-1327 min
The Joyous Justice PodcastEp 90: The Shmita Year, the Year of Release (MVP)Send us a message via text message! Link accessible at joyousjustice.buzzsprout.com. ✅We're rounding off this month's MVPs (most valuable podcasts) with a conversation about the Shmita year (if you haven't been commemorating it, don't worry! There's still time!). As we’re In our current pandemic-, racism-, and climate-change-ravaged times, April and Tracie talk about the Shmita Year, or Sabbatical Year, which we just began at Rosh Hashanah. How does one live out the values of the Shmita year when most of us are no longer working as farmers in the fields? They discuss how we can...2022-05-2535 min
The Bridging Connections PodcastEmbodied Jewish PracticesMitsui Collective : Featuring Yoshi SilversteinHow often in your life do you look at things through a Jewish lens? That’s how Yoshi Silverstein has lived his life from a young age. His career path has brought him to creating Mitsui Collective. While attending the JPro Conference earlier this month, I had the opportunity to meet Yoshi Silverstein, founder of Mitsui Collective and this week’s guest in person. I attended a soulful morning minyan (prayer service) that he led in partnership with Kohenet Keshira HaLev Fife (See episode #43 here). I truly felt connected to G-d, comm...2022-05-2053 min
The Bridging Connections PodcastReclaiming Feminist JudaismTHE KOHENET HEBREW PRIESTESS INSTITUTEFeaturing: Keshira HaLev Fife, Executive DirectorMission: Kohenet Kavannah (Organizational Intention): Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute reclaims and innovates embodied, earth-based feminist Judaism. Kohenet's spiritual leadership training, ordination programs, publications and community offerings center ritual as transformative practice. They draw from ways women and other marginalized people have led across time - shrinekeepers, prophetesses and wise women of the Hebrew Bible and beyond. Kohenet honors the ways in which Shekhinah appears to them through traditions, imaginations, prayers, dreams, ancestors, and role models throughout Jewish history. They celebrate the sacred...2022-03-1138 min
Jewish Ancestral Healing PodcastTorah, Tradition, and Transformation with Arielle Rivera Korman and Keshira haLev FifeArielle Rivera Korman, in conversation with Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife, speaks about co-founding Ammud: Jews of Color Torah Academy, their shared Filipinx Jewish identity, and on the role of song and music in her ancestral journey.2022-02-0957 min
Jewish Ancestral HealingTorah, Tradition, and Transformation with Arielle Rivera Korman and Keshira haLev FifeArielle Rivera Korman, in conversation with Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife, speaks about co-founding Ammud: Jews of Color Torah Academy, their shared Filipinx Jewish identity, and on the role of song and music in her ancestral journey.2022-02-0957 minThe Joyous Justice PodcastEp 57: The Shmita Year, the Year of ReleaseSend us a message via text message! Link accessible at joyousjustice.buzzsprout.com. ✅In our current pandemic-, racism-, and climate-change-ravaged times, April and Tracie talk about the Shmita Year, or Sabbatical Year, which we just began at Rosh Hashanah. How does one live out the values of the Shmita year when most of us are no longer working as farmers in the fields? They discuss how we can use this particular moment to lean into its themes, reconnect with the Earth, and find greater balance in what we endeavor to control and what we allow to happen or...2021-10-0734 minJudaism UnboundEpisode 246: Priestessing Priestesses - Keshira HaLev FifeKeshira HaLev Fife, the Oreget Kehillah (Weaver of Community/Executive Director) for Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation reflecting on the word "priestess" as both a noun and as a verb. They ask who priestesses are, what priestessing is, and why even priestesses themselves benefit from being priestessed. With respect to all of these questions, they explore how they tie to the Jewish past, present, and future.This episode is the seventh in a series of episodes exploring the history and contemporary leadership of America's Jewish women.If...2020-10-3051 min