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Alumni Spotlights
Rena Singer
"I learned that many of the mitzvot feel entirely different when they are kept by a community as opposed to an individual."
 
Mikey Snow
" The Hadar Beit Midrash served a model for what a community of respect, communication, and diversity, can look like, in an increasingly partisan and polarized world."
 
Elchanan Clingman
"... I think often about Hadar as an inspiration and a model for a successful learning, and prayer community."
 
Tamar Friedman
"... Hadar made me more intentional in my thoughts, actions, and practice of Judaism."
 
Lindsay Goldman
"I have entered into an honest relationship with Torah and mitzvot..."
 
Seth Kennedy
"I started a lot of conversations with faculty members at Hadar... to make the traditionally gendered [wedding] ceremony more egalitarian."
 
Jana Loeb
"Studying at Hadar gave me access to a world of Torah that had previously felt inaccessible to me."
 
Lily Nagy-Deák
"... it's been a wonderful experience to open the door for people into the world of Jewish text study/discussion."
 
Dorielle Parker
"I have found a way to channel my love for Torah, my respect for Halakha and my creative juices..."
 
Erick Rabin
"... I am continually amazed at how the friendships I made in that short summer have become such an important part of my life."
 
Dvir Hadad
"Baruch Hashem, Hadar is with me almost everyday."
 
Jessica Youseffi
"In the years since Hadar, I have continued to see how the spirit of these teachings are alive in my studies and clinical experience."
 
Michale Goldberger
"I'm currently living in a new, different Jewish community, and I can't help but think of many conversations around community and equality that I had while at Hadar."
 
Daniel Schaefer
"Hadar opened up a whole new world of Jewish study, practice, and community, for which I am very grateful."
 
Michal Birnbaum
"I started thinking about how I can be involved in social actions as a Jew, and how I can do it in a humble way, to do it as part of the community and not as an outsider."
 
Beverly Socher-Lerner
"...When I daven with my students every day, I'm forever trying to help them...create a lifelong practice of prayer and self-understanding through Tfilah."
 
Alexandra Casser
"A team of progressive Jewish scribes have come together...[to] make learning about and caring for their community's precious ritual assets accessible to every Jew..."
 
Chelsea Garbell
"Hadar is a radical place, and a difficult one, but it produces unparalleled beauty, community, and a Judaism worth emulating."
 
Chana Kupetz
"Hadar gave me the skills to forge a more personal, intimate relationship with the Torah."
 
Adam Freilich
"I felt and continue to feel supported by my peers and teachers at Hadar in a way that I haven’t felt elsewhere."
 
Avigayil Halpern
"Hadar is a place that is principled but welcoming, a place that invites people in without watering down what it offers."
 
Danny Cohen
"I love participating in the alumni events here in Israel...and I'm profoundly grateful for friendships that have come through Hadar."
 
Jordan Soffer
"[Hadar] encouraged me to push myself, to learn more, and to do more, and it encouraged me about the future of American Judaism."
 
Smadar Yaniv
"My microgrant project was simple and fun. My husband Daniel ('13-'14) and I organized a study group where we brought pieces of Torah on different subjects...that are relevant to our lives."
 
Noam Bloom
"...we had egal davening before dinner. I don't think I'd have had half the confidence to put that together if I hadn't spent a summer at Hadar."
 
Dave Yedid
"After a year of really integrating Torah and mitzvot in my life [at Hadar],...I am more comfortable communicating my boundaries...and [living] my values."
 
Hannah Kober
"That exposure to machlokot...has given me a more realistic, mature, and stable approach for understanding and applying mitzvot."
 
Arielle Stein
"Post Hadar, my engagement with Torah has been more consistent and investigative than it ever has been in the past."
 
Rachel Druck
"My time at Hadar helped me to articulate my halakhic philosophy to myself...and gave me tools to translate Judaism as a system of values to audiences that are less Jewishly engaged or knowledgeable."
 
Tom Docci
Tom Docci
"Torah lishmah is what I think of mostly when I think about my time at Hadar. The uplifting feeling that our lives are within the Torah and Torah is within our lives."
 
Noah Aronson
Noah Aronson
"I have a strong memory of Dena leading Hallel and I keep the sound of her voice close to mind whenever I have a chance to lead it myself."
Yoyneh Boyarin
Yoyneh Boyarin
"The chizuk Hadar gave me means, no matter what, I have something to say (tefillah), someone to say it to (the Eybishter), and someone to say it with (other Jews)"
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