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April/May 2025 Events
First Night Jewish Renewal Passover Seder
Saturday, April 12 at 6:45pm
Get your tickets here! RSVP by Thursday, April 10
Come join us for a meaningful and joyous celebration of Passover at a community arts space in the Powderhorn neighborhood. Our Twin Cities Jewish Renewal Seder will be filled with traditional rituals, delicious food, and uplifting music, Jewish Renewal style. We are grateful for sponsorship from YALA!
Experience the story of Exodus in a unique and spiritual way, surrounded by a warm and welcoming and inclusive community. Whether you're a Passover veteran or attending for the first time, all are welcome to partake in this special evening. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with others, reflect on freedom and renewal, and enjoy a memorable start to the Passover holiday. We look forward to celebrating with you!
You will receive the location after you register. General tickets are $30 before taxes and fees. For $54, you can help to cover the cost of someone else's ticket. Don't let cost deter you! If you can't afford a general ticket, click the pay what you can ticket option and thendonate what works for you in the field below. Please contact Student Rabbi Adam Kersch for questions at adamtcjewishrenewal@gmail.com
Nava Tehila in Concert
Sunday, May 4, 7:00 pm at Beth Jacob Congregation
Co-sponsoring - Twin Cities Jewish Renewal Community
Tickets $18 per person on line through May 1, $20 at the door (family max is $36 online, $40 at the door)
Nava Tehila, Jerusalem’s Jewish Renewal Community, is one of the Jewish world's most innovative musical prayer communities. Its spiritual leaders: Rabbi Ruth Gan Kagan, Daphna Rosenberg and Yoel Sykes generate new prayer modalities, compose new music for prayer and train Jewish prayer leaders in the art of musical prayer leading.
Their music is sung in synagogues across Israel and throughout the globe.
November/December 2024
Kabbalah Coloring Workshop Sunday, November 10 @ 2 – 3:30 PM Led by Bonnie Resnick
Judaism Meets Curiosity: An Interactive Playful Experience Sunday December 8 @ 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Kabbalah Coloring Workshop Sunday, November 10 @ 2 – 3:30 PM Led by Bonnie Resnick
Come learn how the mystical sparks of Kabbalah are felt and seen in our bodies and souls. We will explore Kabbalah concepts using David Friedman’s, The Kabbalah Coloring Book or your own artistic drawings.
Register Space is limited. Mendota Heights location sent with registration.
TCJRC Members $12, Non-members $18 (Fill in the d
Come learn how the mystical sparks of Kabbalah are felt and seen in our bodies and souls. We will explore Kabbalah concepts using David Friedman’s, The Kabbalah Coloring Book or your own artistic drawings.
Register Space is limited. Mendota Heights location sent with registration.
TCJRC Members $12, Non-members $18 (Fill in the dollar amount in other and write Kabbalah Coloring in comments)
Loving Our Own Bones - Spiritual Book Group Sun. November 17 @ 7 PM
Judaism Meets Curiosity: An Interactive Playful Experience Sunday December 8 @ 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Kabbalah Coloring Workshop Sunday, November 10 @ 2 – 3:30 PM Led by Bonnie Resnick
A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disability in the Bible and contemporary culture. A 2024 National Jewish Book Award winner and essential read on disability, spirituality, and social justice.
Everyone is welcome to participate. You can learn a lot and share in the discussion eve
A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disability in the Bible and contemporary culture. A 2024 National Jewish Book Award winner and essential read on disability, spirituality, and social justice.
Everyone is welcome to participate. You can learn a lot and share in the discussion even if you have not had a chance to read it. Contact Sherry at tcjewishrenewal@gmail.com for the Zoom details.
Judaism Meets Curiosity: An Interactive Playful Experience Sunday December 8 @ 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Judaism Meets Curiosity: An Interactive Playful Experience Sunday December 8 @ 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Judaism Meets Curiosity: An Interactive Playful Experience Sunday December 8 @ 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Led by Spruce Kraus
Want to invite more curiosity and playfulness into your spiritual practices and life? Together we will co-create a space for exploration through movement, stillness, sound and story.
Learn a simple tool, based in neuroscience, for turning on curiosity in the brain. Curiosity is really a superpower to lessen stress and aw
Led by Spruce Kraus
Want to invite more curiosity and playfulness into your spiritual practices and life? Together we will co-create a space for exploration through movement, stillness, sound and story.
Learn a simple tool, based in neuroscience, for turning on curiosity in the brain. Curiosity is really a superpower to lessen stress and awaken interest and discover expanded possibilities.
We will use simple techniques that are inspired by InterPlay to promote a playful sense of ease and an authentic sense of connection both to yourself and others.
Registration - St. Paul location given with registration. Suggested Donation TCJRC Members $12, Non-members $18 (Write Curiosity Experience in comments).
Twin Cities Renewal Community & JFCS's J-Pride present
Soulful Shabbat: Service & Dinner
The night will start with a Renewal-based musical Shabbat Service in an outdoor amphitheater led by Rabbi Sandra Razieli, Rabbi Debra Rappaport, Rabbi Jill Avrin, Rabbi Sholom Resnick Bell and Julie Dean. Following services, we invite you to stay for a delicious falafel dinner at the Nature Center. Adults $18 Child $6
June/July/August 2024
Embodying Movement Through A Jewish Lens
Thursdays 7 - 8 PM - Outdoor Park (not July 4) Drop-in class starting June 20
Led by Rabbi Sandra Razieli
Join Rabbi Sandra in the park to practice different movement modalities, including yoga and brain-based wellness techniques, in a playful and welcoming Jewish context. Explore what it feels like to embody practices such as prayer, Torah study, and the Hebrew letters. This is an opportunity to improve balance, agility, and strength while experiencing the sacred within our individual selves and the world around us.
Rabbi Sandra Razieli enjoys weaving together her experiences as a certified yoga instructor, neuro trainer and Jewish educator, to create movement practices that support people to move better and therefore feel better. Sandra lives on Maui but grew up in Minnesota and loves to spend extensive time here in the summer. She has been teaching movement practices for over twenty years. You can read more about her at www.raziyoga.com and www.mauirabbi.com
RSVP to tcjewishrenewal@gmail.com for the St. Louis Park location. Please let us know your interest in attending even if you miss the first week.
Donations appreciated - TCJRC Members $10; Non-members $15
Please bring the following if you have them:
- Yoga mat
- Water bottle
- Six-foot strap
- Pillow for sitting and reclining (optional)
January/February 2024
Rosh Chodesh Shevat Celebration & our TCJRC Fifth Anniversary Kick-off
Wednesday, January 10 at 6:30 - 7:45 PM
(If you like, you can grab some food from Byerly’s and meet us at 5:30 pm)
Led by Kohenet Riv Shapiro
at Byerly’s Community Room, 3777 Park Center Blvd, St Louis Park
Space is limited - Please RSVP. Suggested donation $10. Free for members.
We gather to celebrate the new moon of Shevat with Kohenet Riv Shapiro and the Twin Cities Jewish Renewal Community. Kohenet Riv will share teachings on the themes of the Hebrew month, guide us in music and chant, and open space for us to share what's on our hearts and be witnessed in community.
All people are invited to enter into the new month with awareness, inspiration, and community togetherness. Please grab some food from Byerlys that night and meet us.
Riv (they/them) is a queer artist and musician, outdoor educator and Kohenet. After seven years working with Jewish Renewal organizations in the Bay Area, Riv has moved back to Dakota land to serve as the Arts & Culture Producer at the Minnesota JCC. Blending the roles of Educator, Priestess and Artist, Riv is dedicated to sharing the wisdom and the medicine of their Jewish ancestors through adaptive, accessible, and liberatory means.
Tu B'Shevat Seder & Sing with Sarina Partridge
Thursday, January 25 from 6:30 – 8 PM
Westwood Hills Nature Center, 8300 West Franklin Avenue, St. Louis Park
Organic seder foods (fruits, nuts, and grape juice) provided. Space is limited - RSVP today! Suggested donation $10.
Celebrate the Jewish New Year for the Trees (Tu B'Shevat) with song, community and a kabbalistic seder* journey through the Kabbalistic Four Worlds of Creation. Local song leader Sarina Partridge will teach original songs, speaking to the themes of the holiday, for community singing - simple, satisfying harmony songs, taught by ear in a way that welcomes all singers. Sarina, Rabbi Debra Rappaport (Hineni), Terry Gips (TCJRC, Alliance for Sustainability), and Riv Shapiro (Minnesota JCC) will offer Tu B'Shevat teachings. All are welcome - come sing!
Presented in partnership with Twin Cities Jewish Renewal Community, Alliance for Sustainability and Hineni.
Sarina Partridge (www.sarinapartridge.com) is a musician, song-leader and educator in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sarina performs, teaches, and tours with a wide variety of music projects - place-based music inspired by time in wilderness, Eastern European and Yiddish song, community song-leading, old-time music... and everything in between.
*Seder is the Hebrew word for "order" and refers to a ritual meal. The Tu B'shevat seder dates back to the Jewish mystics of the 16th century and includes specific fruits, nuts, and grape juice/wine.
TCJRC Jewish Spirituality Book Group
Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul by Rabbi Naomi Levy
Sunday, January 14 from 7-8:30 PM CT on Zoom
All are welcome to participate even if you have not read the section.
Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Award in the Religion/Spirituality of Western Thought category.
In this inspiring book, Rabbi Naomi Levy sets off on a three-year exploration of the mystery behind a moving and mystical letter that Albert Einstein wrote in response to a grieving father about the unity that underlies all existence. The stories in the book are told with wisdom, wit and deep compassion and are an inspiring guide on how to live a more meaningful and connected life.
Read the first part of the section through page 179 on Listening to the Love Force: The Key to Intimacy and Uncovering Your Calling. For the Zoom link contact Sherry at TCJewishRenewal@gmail.com.
Save Sunday night February 18th for the following Book Group meeting.
Luminary Havdalah
Saturday, February 3rd at 7 PM
TCJRC is one of the partners of this free community-wide gathering outdoors at Levin Park, just east of Lake of the Isles, the evening of Luminary Loppet festival.
Jews and friends from around the Twin Cities are invited to come together to sing, celebrate, and bring some light into this special winter’s night. After an elaborate musical Havdalah ceremony, participants can saunter over to Lake of the Isles to enjoy the Loppet (**separate admission required**).
Wear boots and bring a thermos to receive some hot drinks!
Accessibility: The small Levin park has sidewalks surrounding it, but the park itself will likely be covered with snow.
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Luminary Havdalah is a partner event of Klezmer on Ice, the Twin Cities’ second annual wintertime Klezmer + Yiddish music festival, running from February 1-4, 2024. Visit www.klezmeronice.com for more information.
October 2023
Songs to Re-Root and Remember with Sarina Partridge - Tuesday, October 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Join song leader Sarina Partridge (Minneapolis, MN) for an evening of joyful singing and deep connection. Sarina will teach original songs, speaking to the themes of Jewish diaspora and the natural world, for community singing – simple, satisfying harmony songs, taught by ear in a way that welcomes all singers. Come sing!
Sarina Partridge is a musician, song-leader and educator in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She feels most alive when learning, creating and sharing songs. Sarina performs, teaches, and tours with a wide variety of music projects – place-based music inspired by time in wilderness, Eastern European and Yiddish song, community song-leading, old-time music… and everything in between. She has a passion for connecting people with their own creativity and with community, and for using song to help build the world we all deserve. sarinapartridge.com
CLICK HERE to reserve your spot!
Suggested donation $10. Light snacks provided
Space is limited – RSVP today!
Presented in partnership with the
Contact Sherry at tcjewishrenewal@gmail.com with questions.