The Kitchen – Return to Eden
Our prayerbook represents our community’s shabbat tefillah, and is the first in North America to integrate Sepharadi and Ashkenazi prayers into a single nusach.
We’re hosting a full Kitchen Kabbalat shabbat and dinner, Shabbat morning tefillah and lunch, Havdalah and concert featuring an instrumental ensemble paytanim, and musicians from across the globe.
On Sunday, we are arranging speakers, academics who study the Sepharadi experience in the US, and both authors of existing Sepharadi egalitarian siddurim from London and New York. We’ll be honored to hear from the founders of the Sephardic Egalitarian community, Degel Yehudah in Jerusalem as well as many teachers, rabbis and practitioners, early adapters of this movement who will be joining us from Paris, New York, and Seattle.
Our honored guests include:
Osnat Bensoussan Farouz, Degel Yehuda; Arevot Jerusalem
Chen Blume, Kitchen Siddur Designer Boston
Dr. Sarah Benor, Jewish Language Project; HUC Los Angeles
Daniel Cayre, Kanisse; Editor, Mahzor Zemirot HaMizrahNYC
Heftsi Cohen-Montagu, Degel Yehuda and Arevot, Jerusalem
Rabbi Yosef Goldman, Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, NYC
Tamia Menez B’Chiri, The Hineni Collective, Paris
Simon Montagu-Cohen, Degel Yehuda, Jerusalem
Isaac Montagu, Kolot HaKahal; editor, Sidduré OrLondon
Dr. Devin Naar, University of Washington, Seattle
Ruben Shimonov, Sephardic-Mizrahi Q Network; American Sephardi Federation
Dr. Samuel Torjman Thomas, Asefa; Andalus Ensemble, NYC