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Sunday, December 8 • 2:00pm - 2:55pm
How is a Partnership Minyan Like Ikea Furniture? It's Do It Yourself But It’s Worth the Effort

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Sponsored by Elena and Jay Lefkowitz

Creating a partnership minyan, and working to sustain it, can be daunting and time consuming, but, ultimately, tremendously gratifying. What does it take to start a minyan, and to ensure its continuity? What particular challenges are involved in fostering a minyan that is dedicated to traditional halakha and to creating a prayer space that belongs to both women and men? These questions will be addressed by our panel members, who have each been instrumental in founding a partnership minyan.
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Miriam Schacter

For the past 30 years, Ms. Schacter has been practicing psychoanalysis andpsychotherapy on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, seeing both individuals andcouples. At Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Ms. Schacter is a faculty member in the Department of Pastoral Counseling, is the Pastoral... Read More →

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Judy Abel

Judy Abel is a freelance writer based in Manhattan whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The New York Observer. She is a member of JOFA's executive board and serves as president of Yavneh, a partnership minyan on the Upper East Side, which she co-fou... Read More →
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Evan Hochberg

Evan Hochberg was the founding chair of Minyan Tiferet of Englewood and Tenafly. Previously, he founded Minyan Shirat Miriam and co-founded and co-chaired Minyan Tehillah, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Evan is an attorney serving as Senior Restitution Policy Specialist at the... Read More →
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Shari Kleiner

Shari Kleiner is a native New Yorker who has spent the last 13 years living in Brookline, Massachusetts.  After leaving her job as an attorney at a large law firm for more focus on her personal and spiritual life, she helped found Minyan Kol Rinah, the partnership minyan in Brookline... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2013 2:00pm - 2:55pm EST
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  Changing Our Relationship to Prayer   Our Changing Communities

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