Join The Shalom Center at Shavuot Live Friday, May 26
The Shalom Center will be hosting two sessions as part of Shavuot Live 2023, Judaism Unbound’s 24-hour festival of learning! Join us on Friday, May 26th for Religion in the Revolution: A Theology of Action with Clergy United Against Cop City (4-5pm EDT) and Sinai Anew?! What Should the Ten Utterances Be For Our Era? (8-9pm EDT). For access to the full program, including the two Shalom Center sessions, register HERE.
Shavuot is the Jewish holiday that celebrates the revelation of Torah at Mt. Sinai. It’s a mystical, time-bending event at which — Jewish tradition tells us — all of us were present. Well, thanks to our friends at Judaism Unbound, anyone anywhere on the planet with internet access can be present for the fully digital Shavuot Live 2023!
One of the holiday’s traditions has been staying up all night, learning in community with others. ShavuotLIVE takes it a step further, by offering a marathon of 24 straight hours of learning, for FREE. Over the course of its first two years, ShavuotLIVE has reached over 1,000 participants, all around the world. Read more about the program here.
This year, The Shalom Center’s Rabbis Waskow and DeGroot will each be hosting a session, alongside an incredible slate of presenters. Catch the two Shalom Center sessions, check out a few of the other sessions, too, or shoot for 24 in a row.
Below you will find information for The Shalom Center’s two sessions and the registration link for the full event!
Religion in the Revolution:
A Theology of Action with Clergy United Against Cop City
w/ Rabbis Nate DeGroot & Michael Rothbaum & Rev. Keyanna Jones
Friday, May 26th | 4-5pm EDT
Despite widespread popular opposition to the plan, the city of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Foundation are attempting to raze the city’s largest forest in order to build the largest militarized police training center in the country. Hear from three clergy — two on the ground in Atlanta — who have been active in the #StopCopCity movement, as they unpack the theological roots and religious convictions of their own participation in the movement to protect Atlanta's Weelaunee Forest.
Sinai Anew?!
What Should the Ten Utterances Be For Our Era?
w/ Rabbis Arthur Waskow & Tamara Cohen
Friday, May 26 | 8-9pm EDT
Why did the great Revelation come on Mt. Sinai? Because Sinai was not in Israelite space, or Canaanite space, or Egyptian space, or anybody else’s. It was for everybody. Which makes us wonder: What would the 10 Utterances be if they were spoken today, coming from a Sinai Revelation in our own era, and indeed were for all Humanity and all Life on Earth? – a world utterly different from Planet Earth 3,000 years ago? What are the spiritual through lines that plague our society today, and what are the spiritual through lines that hold within them our collective redemption as we chart a path forward to the Promised Land?
Rabbi Waskow is founder/director of The Shalom Center, creator of the original Freedom Seder in 1969, author of 28 books including Seasons of Our Joy and Dancing in God's Earthquake, co-founder of ALEPH. Rabbi Cohen is Director of Innovation at Moving Traditions, author of Eicha for Earth, a Tisha B’Av lament in English for the wounded Temple Earth of today, manager/facilitator for years of Maayan’s feminist Pesach Seders, and a leader/teacher in LBGTQAI life. A copy of the Sinai Anew?! text will be shared during the program. If you would like to receive the text prior to the program, please send an email to event-help@theshalomcenter.org.
We are looking forward to being together for Torah’s big reveal on Shavuot! Remember to first check out The Shalom Center’s new website reveal on Thursday morning, May 25th at noon EDT. Then on Friday evening, join us at Shavuot Live for deep learning, considering where we’ve been and we’re going as we look to build the world we know is possible!
Click below to register for the full ShavuotLIVE 2023 program, including the two Shalom Center sessions.