Hakhel Resources: Intentional Community
A unique resource library for Jewish Intentional Communities.
Inspiration. Tools. Support.
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
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
Off-Grid, and In Community: ?Tis Easier to Find than to Found
Some wisdom based off a true story
Section: Care for 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
Makom?s Pardes Community
We are all together here, so take a look how others do it.
Section: Care for Community
Lesbian Only Intentional Community Outlast Others: The Ozark Land Holding Association
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."
Section: Care for Community
Join the fourth Jewish Intentional Communities Conference by Rachel Aronson, Jewschool
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.
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
Grassroots Activism Starts at Home
Where is your personal mission touching the communal mission? It's all about crystalizing it. This is a beautiful perspective to take with you.
Section: Care for Community
From Group to Community
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.
Section: Care for Community
Four Steps to a Stronger Community by Aharon Ariel Lavi and Meredith Levick, eJewishPhilanthropy
If make it simple, history tells what made communities stand strong. Read the basic conclusions fron the leaders of Hakhel.
Section: Care for Community
Common Denominators of The Communities I Visited
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?
Section: Care for Community
Calls for More Cooperative Housing
Read how to make intentional communities rise up in the urban setting. This is a nice step!
Section: Care for Community
As Different as Sour Cream and Applesauce, and Yet… by Rabbi Debbie Bravo, MyJewishLearning
How often do we all fall in to the trap of making assumption... Here is what happens when you overcome them.
Section: Care for Community
