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Ashamnu was a pre-high holy day thinking and learning space. 25 people came together to study the Yom Kippur liturgy and then after dinner we looked at creative interpretations of the prayers, poetry and shared thoughts about Yom Kippur before making collage chamsas that reflected on the year that was past and expressed our hopes for the year to come.
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The East London Sukkah was a week long installation in Whitechapel – an interfaith, artistic, political sukkah which brought together several hundred people to to share meals, talks, performances and dialogues on food, faith, community and activism. A huge success, it featured talk on veganism, squatting, anti-aviation activism, faith, migration and the French state, radical Judaism, films on UK eco-activism, the Yes Men and Punk Jews, music from Muslim rappers and live klezmer.
Find out more about the East London Sukkah .
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 The Liberated Bet Midrash: A space without walls: an immersive and creative hub of learning, teaching and connecting with traditional and contemporary Jewish texts through the ancient art of chavruta. Our first series 'A Stranger Music: Creative Responses to the Song of Songs' was a four session intensive course led by Ariel Kahn involving guided chavruta study of a range of traditional and contemporary texts on the 'Song of Songs', followed by a group workshop revisiting the sources.
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 Moishe House London's Bet Midrash was supported by a small grant from Jeneration, enabling us to create a regular space for learning Jewish text together. We had different groups studying different things in the same space, coming together for quality talks from speakers, whom we paid through our Jeneration grant. Types of study included Talmud, Midrash, Jewish philosophy and spirituality, and even secular subjects like 'The Science of Happiness' and the philosophy of Ken Wilber.
Find out more about Moishe House London.
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 The Open Talmud Project is a ground-breaking initiative promoting meaningful study of Jewish texts by teachers from across the Jewish spectrum for anyone who wants to learn. It has run for two succesful years, and is 4 day programme extravaganza of Jewish text learning, covering Talmud, Tanach, Halachah and Philosophy. In 2010 it attracted 40 participants.
It is the only initiative of its kind, being both cross-denominational and having a focus on high level learning.
Find out more about the Open Talmud Project .
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