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Mechon Hadar receives $1 million matching grant from Jim Joseph Foundation

We are overjoyed to announce that the Jim Joseph Foundation has awarded Mechon Hadar a 5-year, $1 million matching grant.

"Mechon Hadar is a leading new organization in the field of education and community building for young Jews, and we are excited to enter into this partnership," said Dr. Chip Edelsberg, executive director of the Jim Joseph Foundation.

Click here to learn more about the grant.

Click here to see press coverage on The Fundermentalist and here to see press coverage on ejewishphilanthropy.com.

Join Hadar for Daily Minyan

Yeshivat Hadar will hold daily minyan, and we welcome you to join us! Minyanim will begin on June 15, and will be held at 190 Amsterdam Ave., at 69th St.

Times may vary slightly from week to week, so please check here for updated times each week.

Minyan times for the week of June 29:

Shaharit: 7:30am, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday; 8:15am, Wednesday
Minhah: 2:50pm, Monday, Thursday; 3:20pm, Tuesday
Ma'ariv: 8:45pm, Monday and Thursday; 9pm, Tuesday

Join the Hadar Community Beit Midrash

This summer, Kehilat Hadar and Mechon Hadar will launch the Hadar Siyyum Project. As a community, we will learn Seder Moed, the section of Mishnah and Talmud dealing with the range of Jewish holidays. Learn selected mishnahs, the entire seder, sections of Talmud, or anything in between.

    * Every Tuesday we will hold a guided class on a section of Seder Moed, with havruta and discussion.

    * We will hold an open beit midrash, complete with texts and guiding questions. Come with your own hevruta or let us match you with a hevruta.

    * Join Yeshivat Hadar students in the Beit Midrash, and Yeshivat Hadar faculty will be able to answer your questions as you study.

    * This project will continue through next year, and we will celebrate our learning at various points throughout the year.

When: Tuesdays, June 16-August 4, 7:30-9pm
Where: Yeshivat Hadar, 190 Amsterdam Ave., at 69th St.
Cost: $5 per class, $35 for the series
Pizza dinner provided!

Click here click here to sign up for the project and see a proposed schedule of learning.

On June 30, Shira Billet will teach "Overlapping Boundaries in Mishnah Succah: Between Law and Life, Between Sacred and Secular, Between Scholar and Servant."

Join Hadar for Sunday Lectures, 6:30-8:00pm

•    July 19: Rabbi Daniel Landes
Herem Scar’em: Can Using the Ban Work as a Moral Model?

•    July 26: Ruth Messinger
Judaism as Justice

On1Foot.org Launches

Mechon Hadar is proud to co-sponsor On1Foot.org, an open-source online database of Jewish texts on social justice, a new project of AJWS.

Prof. Jonathan Sarna calls Independent Minyanim "the most exciting development in American Judaism"

At the Independent Minyan Conference on Monday, November 10, Professor Jonathan Sarna, speaking on a panel contextualizing the independent minyan phenomenon, said, "I have a sense that when we look back on the minyan phenomenon, we will decide that it was really the most exciting development in American Judaism [in decades]...I think its significance cannot be overstated."

Read more about the conference in the JTA and The Jewish Week.

Click here to listen to recordings of the sessions.

Learn Niggunim (Melodies) from Yeshivat Hadar Alum, Joey Weisenberg

A niggun for Adon Olam.           A Vizhniz niggun to welcome Shabbat.
A Belzer niggun.                           A niggun by Moshe Beregovsky.
A niggun for Eliyahu HaNavi.      A niggun by Joey Weisenberg.
A niggun from the Twersky family, for kedusha and elsewhere.

Click here to read about Joey Weisenberg's role creating vibrant davening at Kane Street Synagogue. 

Independent Minyan Survey

Mechon Hadar, together with Synagogue 3000 and
Sociologist Steven M. Cohen, is proud to present the first nationwide study of participants in independent minyanim. Download the report here, appendices here and press coverage in the New York Times,  JTA, Haaretz, The Jewish Week, the New Jersey Jewish News, and The Forward (as well as an opinion piece in The Forward). In the next few months, we will produce a more detailed study of independent minyanim. To write your reactions to the report, and suggest additional info you would like to know, comment here.

Mechon Hadar in the News

Beyond the Yeshiva's Walls: Yeshivat Hadar in Seattle

On a chilly weekend in Seattle, you expect to see a lot of people huddled under fleeces and coats as they move about their business, ducking into coffee shops for some warmth.  You might not expect to see 200 people packing a room to learn Torah, huddled over Jewish sources and arguing over their meaning and relevance for their lives.

Yet that was the scene two weeks ago at Mechon Hadar's inaugural Yeshiva Experience program at Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle. For 48 hours, members of this mid-sized congregation gathered for a very different sort of scholar-in-residence weekend. Rabbi Ethan Tucker and Sara Labaton, two members of the Yeshivat Hadar faculty, staffed a weekend of learning that actively engaged more than 250 people.

Read more about Mechon Hadar's Yeshiva Experience here.

Read about Mechon Hadar's Yeshiva Experience in JTNews and JTA.

Rabbi Ethan Tucker named to 36 Under 36 by The Jewish Week. 

Looking for Services at Kehilat Hadar?

Click here for Kehilat Hadar's website.
For more information on the relationship between Mechon Hadar and Kehilat Hadar, click here. 

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