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Earth-based Judaism

Wilderness Torah's signature annual event, Passover in the Desert, drew its biggest crowd yet to the Mojave Desert, April 5-10, 2023. (Photo/Julia Maryanska)
Posted inBay Area

Wilderness Torah presses pause on flagship ‘Passover in the Desert’ event

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 22, 2023

Wilderness Torah, which focuses on Earth-based Judaism, won’t run its flagship Passover event in 2024. The decision to pause Passover in the Desert, announced Tuesday, comes after the Berkeley-based nonprofit […]

Wilderness Torah's signature annual event, Passover in the Desert, drew its biggest crowd yet to the Mojave Desert, April 5-10, 2023. (Photo/Julia Maryanska)
Posted inBay Area

‘We passed through that storm’: Wilderness Torah raises enough to keep going

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss April 18, 2023April 18, 2023
Attendees of a Wilderness Torah gathering for Sukkot perform a version of the ancient Simchat Beit Hashoeivah ritual in 2022. (Julia Maryanska/Courtesy Wilderness Torah)
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Facing shortfall, Wilderness Torah launches emergency fundraiser

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 16, 2023March 19, 2023
under a very large sukkah, shere raises her hands up as she leads a circle of people in prayer
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Wilderness Torah’s signature Sukkot festival returns in October

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky August 11, 2022
The bride and groom, Ophir Haberer and Adi Aboody, exit the chuppah after the ceremony with family and friends applauding. (Photo/JTA-Luna Munn Photography)
Posted inUnions

Their wilderness-inspired Jewish wedding featured an animal-skin ketubah and ‘first fruits’ altar

Alix Wall by Alix Wall and JTA August 8, 2022
Wilderness Torah Rosh Hashanah celebration at Camp Newman, September 2021. (Photo/Darren Miller)
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Wilderness Torah, Camp Newman collaborate to build Center for Earth-Based Judaism

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 17, 2021September 20, 2021
The "Haggadeck," a deck of cards that's also a Passover haggadah, comes in a small drawstring bag. Seder plate not included. (Photo/Courtesy Taya Mâ Shere)
Posted inPassover

Want a haggadah with poetry? Or maybe you’d rather say, ‘Deal me in.’ 

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 4, 2021March 4, 2021
Keshira haLev Fife, a kohenet (Hebrew priestess), is the founder and leader of Kesher Pittsburgh, an independent, post-denominational Jewish community. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Fife)
Posted inOpinion

Don’t call them ‘fringe’: Innovative Jewish groups seek respect from the mainstream

Gary Rosenblatt by Gary Rosenblatt and JTA February 22, 2021February 22, 2021
Worshippers reach for the Torah during services at Wilderness Torah's Rosh Hashanah retreat. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inReligion

Wildly celebrating the new year in the wilderness (of Sebastopol)

by Gabriel Greschler October 3, 2019October 3, 2019
Day Schildkret with his work "Ode to Autumn"
Posted inCulture

Healing the soul with artistic altars in nature

Alix Wall by Alix Wall January 23, 2019January 23, 2019

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