A Dialogue Across Our “Shared Table”
A Dialogue Across Our “Shared Table”
Four Evening Conversations
Four Evening Conversations
The Seattle Jewish community is approximately 75,000 people and encompasses a diverse range of lived experiences, viewpoints, and perspectives – on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, democracy in the United States, antisemitism, and more. In the last two years, we’ve felt the range of our experiences, which often included significant tensions and polarization. With that in mind, the Federation is launching Shared Table, a pilot new initiative, designed to bring Jews from across Greater Seattle together for a meaningful civil dialogue.
Created by the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), this four-session gathering cohort will create a supportive, structured cohort in which to listen, learn, and communicate across divides in our diverse Jewish community. If you are interested in sharing your perspectives, learning about others, and building a Jewish community that honors and respects our diversity, we hope you will apply to be part of our Shared Table.
The program will organize small groups of participants to reflect diverse identities and perspectives, including age, gender, race, religious observance, political viewpoints, prior experience with dialogue, and location.
Participants must agree to respectful behavior, confidentiality, and constructive engagement, and must commit to attending all sessions.
The program will organize small groups of participants to reflect diverse identities and perspectives, including age, gender, race, religious observance, political viewpoints, prior experience with dialogue, and location.
Participants must agree to respectful behavior, confidentiality, and constructive engagement, and must commit to attending all sessions.
Meet Your Program Facilitator
Rabbi Jason Levine
Jewish Community Relations Council Associate Director
Rabbi Jason R. Levine is the Associate Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Seattle, where he leads on intergroup relations, civil discourse and bridge within the Jewish community, and member engagement of the 36 organizations and many lay leaders that make up the JCRC. He currently serves on the Board of the Faith Action Network and is in the Common Good Cohort for the Western States Center. He previously served as the Associate Rabbi of Tempe Beth Am in North Seattle for over a decade and as the Chair of the Washington Coalition of Rabbis.
Rabbi Levine was trained as part of a nation-wide multi-denominational Resetting the Table Facilitator Intensive designed to open up courageous conversations across differences and support communication across divides within their communities and networks.
Originally from the Midwest, Jason earned his Bachelors at Cornell University in both Neurobiology & Behavior and Near Eastern Studies, and rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College.
jasonl@jewishinseattle.org
206-774-2228
Meet Your Program Facilitator
Rabbi Jason Levine
Jewish Community Relations Council Associate Director
Rabbi Jason R. Levine is the Associate Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Seattle, where he leads on intergroup relations, civil discourse and bridge building within the Jewish community, and member engagement of the 36 organizations and many lay leaders that make up the JCRC. He currently serves on the Board of the Faith Action Network and is in the Common Good Cohort for the Western States Center. He previously served as the Associate Rabbi of Temple Beth Am in North Seattle for over a decade and as the Chair of the Washington Coalition of Rabbis.
Rabbi Levine was trained as part of a nation-wide multi-denominational Resetting the Table Facilitator Intensive designed to open up courageous conversations across differences and support communication across divides within their communities and networks.
Originally from the Midwest, Jason earned his Bachelors at Cornell University in both Neurobiology & Behavior and Near Eastern Studies, and rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College.
jasonl@jewishinseattle.org | 206-774-2228
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