Building on our experience with the Teva Learning Center, in the spring of 2003, Isabella Freedman developed a new program called ADAMAH: The Jewish Environmental Fellowship . ADAMAH is a leadership training program for Jewish young adults that teaches the vital connection between Judaism and environmental stewardship. Through a six-month residential – more... program, ADAMAH Fellows live communally and engage in a hands-on curriculum that integrates organic agriculture and sustainable living skills, Jewish learning and living, leadership development, and community building. The program strengthens participants' Jewish identity and commitment to tikkun olam through immersion in an ecologically sustainable, spiritually vibrant, and intergenerationally-connected Jewish community, while exposing countless others to a traditionally rooted yet entirely new way of Jewish living.
In the fall of 2006, the Elat Chayyim Jewish Retreat Center of Accord, New York merged with Isabella Freedman, where it is now known as the Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality (ECCJS). For fifteen years, Elat Chayyim transformed contemporary Jewish life with retreat programs that integrate Jewish learning, spirituality and culture. Elat Chayyim's mission continues to be a resource and retreat center for the development, experience, and promotion of a comprehensive Jewish spiritual practice. Elat Chayyim retreats promote practices that draw on the wisdom of Jewish tradition and reflect the values and consciousness of our ever-evolving modern experience of Judaism. Elat Chayyim retreats offer experiential approaches to Jewish learning, ritual and prayer that help participants in their search to cultivate the awareness of the Divine presence in all aspects of life.
Elat Chayyim's retreats welcome people from all backgrounds, including individuals with limited or no Jewish education, seekers who have walked other spiritual and religious paths and those who are traditionally observant. Our faculty includes today's most respected and innovative thinkers, authors, teachers, cantors and rabbis from across the Jewish denominational spectrum. Thousands of people from around the world have participated in programs facilitated by rabbis, scholars, and artists based on weeklong, weekend, and Jewish High Holiday retreats. In addition, Elat Chayyim has created unique training institutes that target Jewish professionals and provide compelling cutting-edge programming including Jewish meditation, yoga, chant, text study, and an eco-spiritual residential community for young adults. – less – More from ZoomInfo »
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