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Featured Updates:

Listen to our newest podcasts

  • Shalom Meditation [6/5/09]
  • Mountain Pose: A Posture for Revelation [5/12/09]
  • Joy Practice for a New Season [3/23/09]

Fall 2008: Join us for a new year of classic Hasidic text study with Rabbi Jonathan Slater exploring Kol Simchah, the writings of R. Simchah Bunim of Przysucha. Below are free sample texts; to subscribe for the year, please click here and scroll to "Hasidic Torah Lessons."

  • Week 1: [1 2 3]
  • Week 2: [1 2]
  • Week 3: [1 2 3]
  • Week 4: [1 2]

Watch Rabbi Rachel Cowan discuss the Jewish experience in "The Jewish Americans" from PBS:

Preparing the Heart: Yoga for Jewish Spiritual Practice
CD with pamphlet illustrating postures

Hevraya Resource Bank:

[members only]

Spirituality of Congregation-Based Community Organizing
June 5, 2008
Rachel Cowan and Laura Geller

IJS Featured in Slingshot for the third year in a row!

Slingshot 2008-2009

What we do

For Rabbis, Cantors and Educators

IJS offers 18-month leadership programs for rabbis, cantors and educators consisting of 4 five-day retreats. These programs include Hassidic text study, prayer, mindfulness meditation, yoga and spiritual direction.


For Professional Alumni

Professional alumni of IJS programs join the Hevraya program which offers national and regional retreats, weekly text study, an interactive online resource bank and spiritual direction.


For Lay People

Three times a year IJS offers 4-day Shabbat retreats consisting of contemplative prayer, mindfulness meditation, Hassidic text study, yoga, lively discussion and Shabbat community. IJS has developed a 2-year curriculum - Vetaher Libeynu - an exploration of the adult Jewish spiritual experience. Alumni of our professional programs teach the curriculum in their communities.