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Living Our Beliefs: Exploring Faith & Religion in Daily LifeMikveh: Reclaiming an Ancient Jewish Ritual – Haviva Ner-DavidEpisode 84. This week is the Jewish holiday of Chanukah which celebrates light in the dark days of winter. It is a time of contrasts and turning. Our candles add light in the darkness as we appreciate the slow turning towards longer days. In that spirit, this conversation explores another kind of opposites and turning – immersing in the mikveh as a way for a Jew to mark a transition. Haviva Ner-David, an American Jew who has lived in Israel more than half her life. She is the founding rabbi of Shmaya: A Mikveh for...
2024-12-2637 min
MusingsA Dip In TimeIn this episode, I bring you part of Episode 71 of Israel Story, where the Israeli Story crew followed me and my good friends Steve Grey and Haviva Ner David, documenting our efforts to save a 2,000-year-old mikveh from oblivion.
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2024-08-0837 min
EvolveRabbi Haviva Ner-David on Life and Death in War and Advocating for PeaceRabbi Haviva Ner-David, an activist and author, shares what it is like to live in Israel – and be a parent - right now, with all the heartbreak, confusion and glimmers of hope. In this conversation, the author and spiritual director discusses the personal losses she suffered on October 7 and after (9:18) She also shares anxiety about living in Israel’s north and how and why she’s recommitted herself to interfaith peace activism (22:10) and her work with the Standing Together, the grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace . With views on the conflict becoming ever m...
2024-03-2854 min
The Jewish Drinking ShowJacob Ner-David of Jezreel Valley Wines and VinSentFollowing-up from the previous episode of the show on Israeli wines, the 109th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show features Jacob Ner-David on the Israeli winery he co-founded, Jezreel Valley Winery.Ner-David is a 20+year veteran of serial entrepreneurship and technology innovation with deep connectivity in the Israeli and American venture scene. Ner-David is the co-founder and CEO of Vinsent, a venture formed to positively disrupt the global wine industry, and a partner in VinoVentures, a wine-trading fund. He is the chairman of the award-winning Jezreel Valley Winery, which he co-founded in 2011. Jacob currently serves as Executive...
2022-08-1645 min
FSHD Straight Talk with Tim HollenbackGiving Tuesday Radiothon hour 1 with Guests Mark Stone, Haviva Ner David, Olga Mitelman and Sharif TabebordbarThis is hour 1 of the Giving Tuesday Radiothon. We kick things off with Mark Stone, FSHD Society CEO; Haviva Ner David; Olga Mitelman, MD; and Sharif Tabebordbar.
2021-12-011h 08
FSHD Straight Talk with Tim HollenbackHaviva Ner-David, author of Hope ValleyHaviva Ner-David is an ordained rabbi and interfaith-interspiritual minister, with a doctorate in philosophy and an M.F.A in Creative Writing. She runs Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind, Body and Soul, where she officiates ritual immersion ceremonies and offers group workshops. A certified spiritual director with a specialty in dreamwork, she works with individuals and couples. Rabbi Ner-David is the author of two published spiritual journey memoirs and has a third, Dreaming Against the Current: A Rabbi’s Soul Journey, on the way. She is also the author of a guidebook for engaged couples. Hope Valley is her debut no...
2021-04-1557 minEvolveDreams: Judaism's Forgotten Practice"A dream uninterpreted is like a letter not read.” That quote, attributed to Rabbi Hisda in the Talmud, coupled with the frequency and importance of dreams in the Bible, might make you think dream interpretation plays a central role in Jewish tradition. Yet Rabbi Haviva Ner-David, an Orthodox feminist turned “post-denominational, interspiritual rabbi”, says that dreams have long been neglected in mainstream Jewish practice. It was through Ner-David’s exploration of other religious traditions that she encountered dreamwork as a spiritual practice. In this interview, she discusses how dreams offer each of us a tool to better understand ourselves and our...
2020-09-0845 min