ABOUT OHALAH
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OHALAH is the non-profit professional association for Jewish Renewal Rabbis, Cantors, and Rabbinic Chaplains.
Members of OHALAH form a congregation of clergy who meet in virtual time throughout the year via our members-only listserv. We celebrate one another’s joys and accomplishments and pray for one another in times of suffering and despair. We share with one another from the teachings of Torah shebichtav and Torah sheb’alpeh. We bear witness to one another’s realizations of faith and understanding. We reach out to one another’s congregants, students and other constituents when they visit our area and we are available when they have a need for someone to officiate at a wedding; to bring an infant into the covenant through brit milah, brit bat or naming; or to lay a loved one to rest.
We share prayers and poetry that we have written or that inspire us; we share ideas for divrei torah, hespedim, sermons and talks. We provide support, inspiration and consolation to one another in times of illness, suffering and loss; and we pray together in virtual time for one another, and for the communities of the Jewish people and all of God’s creation when they are suffering the devastation of natural and human disasters.
We challenge one another’s ideas and views, we make room for ideas and views different from our own, and we push one another to our limits of thought, heart and confidence, as did the sages of old.
Any congregation or other institution wishing to hire a Jewish clergy-person or student is welcome to submit an announcement to any member of OHALAH for posting on our confidential email discussion list. If you do not know a member of OHALAH personally and have a job posting, please use the information on our contact page.
Please check out the educational articles, innovative rituals and other spiritual and religious resources available on our website.
Once a year, we hold a conference open to all ordained and student rabbis, cantors, and rabbinic chaplains regardless of whether they qualify for membership in OHALAH, and provided that they are not subject to an ethics proceeding that would prevent their attendance. Non-OHALAH clergy members are invited to attend the conference once without membership.
Our annual conference is preceded by an annual pre-conference Shabbaton that includes worship led by ALEPH Ordination Program students.
We share prayers and poetry that we have written or that inspire us; we share ideas for divrei torah, hespedim, sermons and talks. We provide support, inspiration and consolation to one another in times of illness, suffering and loss; and we pray together in virtual time for one another, and for the communities of the Jewish people and all of God’s creation when they are suffering the devastation of natural and human disasters.
We challenge one another’s ideas and views, we make room for ideas and views different from our own, and we push one another to our limits of thought, heart and confidence, as did the sages of old.
Any congregation or other institution wishing to hire a Jewish clergy-person or student is welcome to submit an announcement to any member of OHALAH for posting on our confidential email discussion list. If you do not know a member of OHALAH personally and have a job posting, please use the information on our contact page.
Please check out the educational articles, innovative rituals and other spiritual and religious resources available on our website.
Once a year, we hold a conference open to all ordained and student rabbis, cantors, and rabbinic chaplains regardless of whether they qualify for membership in OHALAH, and provided that they are not subject to an ethics proceeding that would prevent their attendance. Non-OHALAH clergy members are invited to attend the conference once without membership.
Our annual conference is preceded by an annual pre-conference Shabbaton that includes worship led by ALEPH Ordination Program students.
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Some photos on this page are by Janice Rubin.