Rabbi Adina Allen: First Fruits of Creativity & Belonging [Video]

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The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  Your host is Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp. In this episode, Joey Taylor and Miriam speak with Rabbi Adina Allen (https://adina-allen.com/) .

Rabbi Adina Allen (https://adina-allen.com/) is a spiritual leader, writer and educator who believes in the power of our inherent creativity. Adina (https://adina-allen.com/) is co-founder and Creative Director of Jewish Studio Project (JSP (https://www.jewishstudioproject.org/) ), a national organization that cultivates creativity as a practice for spiritual connection and social transformation. JSP (https://www.jewishstudioproject.org/) builds resilience and empathy, activates prophetic imagination, and inspires new approaches to society’s most pressing problems through the synergy of Jewish learning and creative practice. Adina (https://adina-allen.com/) developed JSP (https://www.jewishstudioproject.org/) ’s core methodology — the Jewish Studio Process — which is used by clergy, educators, activists, artists and lay leaders in hundreds of Jewish communal institutions across the country. Her writing is widely published and can be found at www.adina-allen.com (http://www.adina-allen.com/) .

Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp (https://templesholom.net/who-we-are/rabbi-terlinchamp/) serves as the spiritual leader of Temple Sholom in Cincinnati, Ohio. Temple Sholom sets itself apart through dynamic, mission-driven initiatives. Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp, a native of Seattle and previous to joining Temple Sholom, she served as chaplain and at the Los Angeles County Men’s jail, the Los Angeles Home for the Aging, as a rabbinic fellow at Temple De Hirch Sinai in Seattle and a national Kol Tzedek fellow for American Jewish World Service. Rabbi Terlinchamp serves as the Immediate Past President of The Amos Project, the largest faith-based organizing body in Ohio with 55 Cincinnati-area congregations. She serves on the national clergy organizing board and the Large Grant Commission of Faith in Action. She is a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow and part of the CLAL Spiritual Entrepreneur 2017 cohort incubator, a collaborative partnership between CLAL and the Columbia Business School. Rabbi Terlinchamp received her Masters degree in Hebrew Letters in 2008, was ordained as a rabbi in 2010 at HUC-JIR, Los Angeles, received BA in Philosophy of Religion and Studio Art from Scripps College in Claremont, CA and received additional studio art training at the London Slade School of Art. Rabbi Terlinchamp is a poet, an artist and a mother to two fabulous daughters, Sienna and Magnolia.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. (https://commongood.cc/) Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live (https://bespokenlive.org/) & Common Change – Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation (https://www.commonchange.com/) .