Hakhel Resources
A unique resource library for Jewish Intentional Communities.
Inspiration. Tools. Support.
The Value of Community: What Defines Success?
And what if the definition of success is going to kill the spirit of what you are doing? Read this beautiful perspective and let yourself feel the comfort, the satisfaction and even the pride of your creation. Indeed a surprise.
Section: Care for Community
Twin Oaks: An egalitarian community
Isn't as isoteric as it might sound. This format is a modular one and worth thinking of.
Check what are your feelings and beliefs regarding egalliation. What brought you to see it that way?
Section: Care for Community
Words of Experience: Starting a Community
Either you are a beginner or an expert, this is a good article to refresh your mind with.
Section: Care for Community
Tags: Activities Bank & Year Program, Alliance and Unity, Communal Life, Community Resilience, Decision Making and Management, Democracy - Sociocracy, Intentional Community, Leadership, Newcomers & Community Assembly, Rituals and Celebrations, Soft Skills and Heart-work, Teamwork, Vision, Volunteers
Boulder Classism Destroys a Co-op
A piece every person interested in co-housing should be familar with
Section: Care for Community
Tags: Cohousing, Intentional Community
National Council of Mission Driven Communities in Israel, video
If you heaven't heard yet the name Mandel Foundation, check it out.
Section: Care for Community
Off-Grid, and In Community: ?Tis Easier to Find than to Found
Some wisdom based off a true story
Section: Care for Community
Overcoming Our Americanness
The desire to connect and co create is not new. What is it than which makes people want to establish new communities instead of joining an existing one? Something to think about.
Section: Care for Community
Tags: Experimentalism
Social Permaculture: Applying the Principles
What does it take to apply nature's wisdom into community life? In few minutes you can step into a new experiment with your community.
Section: Care for Community
Life Lessons for Community Longevity
So many of the points here are familiar to us all! The wisdom of an expirienced leader can help others avoid some crucial mistakes. Take some time for reading it.
This must-read is not an easy one. Turn it into a public discussion: Divide chapters between members and ask them to read it in a community gathering and lead a talk around the text. Worth the effort!
Section: Care for Community
Making a Case for Urban Cohousing
Here is a professional view about this hot topic. Cohousing is something to learn, here is the first step
Section: Care for Community
Makom?s Bnei Akiva Community in Gvanim Beer Sheva
What do you feel when looking at this picture? How would you name this vibe?
Section: Care for Community
Tags: Communal Life, Vision
Makom?s Pardes Community
We are all together here, so take a look how others do it.
Section: Care for Community
Moshav planner eyes cohousing for Jews in Berkeley
Want to start or join cohousing? Read more here
Section: Care for Community
Innisfree Village: Lifesharing in a Service Community
The wider range of intentional life and community life appears in this beautiful story
Section: Care for Community
Jewish cohousing: a vision of intentional neighborhood
Get the glimps of the magical effect communty life, in a cohousing format, has on one's wellbeing.
Section: Care for Community
