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Rabbi Zac Kamenetz

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz is the founder of Shefa. He lives in Berkeley.

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz, founder of the Jewish psychedelic organization Shefa, prays in the Giant Sequoia Grove in Berkeley, Aug. 6, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inLocal Voice

Psychedelics: A new approach to healing Jewish trauma is on the horizon

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz April 27, 2026April 27, 2026

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has settled into Jewish life in America. It did not begin on Oct. 7, 2023, though that day cracked open something that […]

a smiling bearded man takes a selfie with an older woman in pink-tinted sunglasses
Posted inFirst Person

I can’t get anything I want at Alice’s restaurant — and I can live with that

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz August 29, 2024August 29, 2024
Ram Dass, right, born Richard Albert, with his friend Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. (Joan Halifax/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inReligion

Discovering Ram Dass the Jew

Rabbi Zac Kamenetz by Rabbi Zac Kamenetz December 24, 2019

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