Hakhel Resources: Care for Community
A unique resource library for Jewish Intentional Communities.
Inspiration. Tools. Support.
Lesbian Only Intentional Community Outlast Others: The Ozark Land Holding Association
by Andy Shupe
Once you feel the mission is stronger than your plans, you might find yourself working on a life project which will be meaningful and inspiring for others. Take a look at this uncommon story.
This quote is the guideline of this unique community. Where does it meet your team, your community? All decisions center on a "triangle of interest," taking into account the effect on the individual, the community and the land. "We depend on each other."
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Learning from Our Past
by Bill Metcalf
What do you think are the core components of intentional community? This is a sharp summary of insights that can give you a useful perspective.
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Join the fourth Jewish Intentional Communities Conference by Rachel Aronson, Jewschool
by Rachel Aronson
The power of gathering is bigger than words. Joining the year conerence of intentional communities is not for nothing a real milestone for all participants.
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Jewish cohousing: a vision of intentional neighborhood
by Roger Studley, Sh?ma
Get the glimps of the magical effect communty life, in a cohousing format, has on one's wellbeing.
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Innisfree Village: Lifesharing in a Service Community
by Nancy Chappell
The wider range of intentional life and community life appears in this beautiful story
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Green and Resilient Neighborhoods: Portland, Oregon and Beyond
by Jan Spencer
Social and ecological can and should go hand in hand.
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Grassroots Activism Starts at Home
by Dan Hines
Where is your personal mission touching the communal mission? It's all about crystalizing it. This is a beautiful perspective to take with you.
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Income-Sharing Community Expands Tofu Business
by WVIR
Living togeher, dreaming in collective terms, might sound like a fictional utopia, but it is a reality for many members of the kibbutz movement. Read more...
What dreams do you dare sharing with your fellows?
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Tags: Cohousing, Income-Sharing
From Group to Community
by Dr. Sara Shadmi-Wortman
Once you want to reveal this magical process of community building, you need a clear language for it. Here is a useful way to get a grip on it.
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Four Steps to a Stronger Community by Aharon Ariel Lavi and Meredith Levick, eJewishPhilanthropy
by Meredith Levick and Aharon Ariel Lavi
If make it simple, history tells what made communities stand strong. Read the basic conclusions fron the leaders of Hakhel.
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Five Tools to Help Groups Thrive
by Melanie Rios
How difficult it is to run a community is no a secret. Useful obsevation of the common challenges will spare some conflicts.
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Decision making tools from the Urban Moshav – JICC 2018
by Roger Studley
A sharp tool for examining your way of decision making method.
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Community Leaders
This presentation can help you create a useful working plan and learn you how to communicate it, internally and externally.
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Community and Responsibility
by Efrem Reis
Going back to this magical word ?responsibility?. What are the core beliefs behind it?
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Common Denominators of The Communities I Visited
by Michael Livni
Some of our most fundamental milestones appear in this article in such a fluent way, you will want to check it out and let it sink in. A wonderful insight, you will probably start identifying examples in the world around you after you recognise this phenomena.
What is the best way to describe the atmosphere of your shared time and space? Do your fellows feel the same?
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