Shabbatonim
Join us for Jewish learning over Shabbat! We are overjoyed to welcome amazing teachers to our community this year.
Writing for Justice
With Hinenu and the Goucher Prison Education Partnership
November 9
Join us as we lift up the power of writing and creative expression to reshape narratives around education, incarceration, and social mobility.
We will start the morning with an intimate poetry workshop led by Traci D. Williams, English Doctoral student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Morgan University.
This event will feature a panel, moderated by Marc Steiner, exploring the role of writing, education, and the arts in the lives of criminal justice system-impacted individuals. With a focus on higher education in prison and community-based programs for system-impacted youth and adults, panelists will share their own work in writing and the visual arts as liberatory practice.
Jointly sponsored by Hinenu Baltimore and the Goucher Prison Education Partnership, this gathering celebrates the legacy of writer and educator Barbara Roswell, and her passion for justice, learning, and creative expression.
The program will be hosted at the Goucher College Alumnae House at 1021 Dulaney Valley Rd.
Water, Earth, Stone
Jewish practices in death and burial
Shabbaton with the Hinenu Chevra Kadisha
November 14-16
Hinenu’s newly forming Chevra Kadisha invites you to join them for a Shabbaton exploring Jewish death and burial practices. Jewish death educator David Zinner will join us for a series of programs and conversations, including a d’var Torah, Shabbat afternoon workshop, Shabbat evening community event, and all day tahara training. At this time the tahara training is open only to Hinenu members, but we encourage our wider community to join us for the rest of the programs!
Members of the Hinenu Chevra Kadisha will lead a Death over Dinner following Kabbalat Shabbat on Friday. There will be ample chocolate provided as we move through sacred Shabbat time and the spirited, sometimes sorrowful learning about death.
This weekend of learning overlaps with the bat mitzvah of Eleanor Jennings-Roche–worry not, we will be celebrating the simcha and not doing too much death talk at the bat mitzvah!
This Shabbaton is a part of launching a progressive Chevra Kadisha (“Sacred Society”) in Baltimore that prepares our loved ones for burial.