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JCC
Program Partners: Jewish Life
& Learning
Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project of the JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10023
www.mayan.org
Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project of the JCC in Manhattan
acts as a catalyst for change in the Jewish community in order
to create an environment more inclusive o and responsive to
women, their needs and their experience.
Ma'yan's work involves creating and disseminating new rituals
that focus on women's lives and experiences. We are best known
for our feminist seder and the haggadah we created - The Journey
Continues. This haggadah, and the accompanying CD/cassette
recorded by Debbie Friedman, is being used around the country
in JCCs, synagogues and by independent women's groups. We
have created other rituals for holidays throughout the year
including: tashlich, sukkot, Chanukah and shauot. We are the
co-creators, together with Kolot: The Center for Jewish Women's
and Gender Studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College,
of the ritualwell.org website which contains innovative rituals
for both life cycle and holidays events.
Ma’yan also focuses on leadership development in the
Jewish community. As a follow up to the study of women on
the boards of major national Jewish organizations, there is
work being done with a consultant to increase the participation
of women in organizational life and leadership. Ma’yan
also addresses issues around women and money and aim to develop
donor activists interested in using their philanthropy to
make change.
Through publication, Journey, published three times a year,
Ma'yan addresses a variety of topics of concern to women.
Recent issues have focused on work/life balance and aging.
Ma'yan staff and guest authors contribute articles that address
these issues from their own perspective.
Ma'yan is available to consult with individuals and organizations
who are interested in any of the areas we work in. Ma’yan’s
staff will talk with people on the phone or in person to help
people explore how they can bring innovative programs from
a feminist perspective to their constituencies.
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