Coffee with Ari Moffic

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Cohere Chicago


Rabbi Riffs


Open Dor Project


ELI Talk: "Community IS Everything"


Honi the Circle Maker


Hebrew Union College


Baltimore Hebrew University


Indiana University


InterfaithFamily/Chicago


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Founder of Cohere Chicago, Rabbi Ari Poster Moffic was ordained
in 2007 from Hebrew Union College. She has an undergraduate
degree from Indiana Universityin Religious Studies, a time when,
she says, she got "slightly obsessed with Buddhism." She then
went on to Baltimore to complete a Masters Degree in Jewish
Education from Baltimore Hebrew University. She has been the
Director of InterfaithFamily/Chicagoand spends her full-time
rabbinate focused on supporting interfaith couples and families
who are exploring Jewish life. Her husband is also a Reform Rabbi
and they are the proud parents of a 8 year old and 10 year old.
She is open to mall walking or meeting for a coffee and
discussing how it is someone from Boston now lives in Chicago
with no ocean.


Rabbi Ari is usually giving people a multitude of options to try
out Judaism. Here, though, she challenges us with a dynamic new
way to understand Jewish community, obligation, and belonging.
Watch her ELI Talkon the Coffeepot Fellowship show notes page.


"Synagogues can't have the monopoly on what it means to be
affiliated and what constitutes Jewish community. Synogogue is a
vehicle for community for so many people. But the model isn't
working for the majority of American Jews.  And so we're
going to need new models and new ways to think about Jewish
community, not as opposed to or against, but in addition to.
 And we can tell people, We can encourage people to call
their friendship groups and the people they meet up with to do
Jewish things "community." - Rabbi Ari Moffic


Like Ari, I (Jay McNeal) deeply appreciate the sacred spiritual
moments in Starbucks with engaged couples, sharing the journey
into their married lives. The opportunity to support and assist
wandering souls in love through a sacred, confusing and critical
time is precious. This is, of course, the story of being a
pastor, helping people through sacred times. And, indeed, what
time in life is not sacred?


You can catch more of Ari in Rabbi Riffs!