Hearing the Call: Creating Dynamic High Holiday Family Programming 2026
Join us for one or both of our interactive webinars with theater artist Jon Adam Ross to explore how to creatively enlivening your Days of AWE family services. Drawing on the tools of theater, ritual, and embodied practice, these sessions will help you reimagine how High Holiday experiences can move from performance to lived, meaningful encounter.
Each day will present different content and modalities. We encourage you to join us for both days.
This program is designed for anyone planning or leading High Holiday family experiences, including clergy, educators, engagement professionals, and lay volunteers. Anyone seeking fresh, thoughtful ways to make family services more engaging and participatory for all ages.
Come ready to experiment, reflect, and be inspired as we elevate tradition through creativity.
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Questions? Reach out to Loen Amer (LAmer@jewishedproject.org).
- After School and Beyond
- Early Childhood Education
- Congregational Learning
- Family Engagement
- Teen Engagement
- Belonging
- Creativity and the Arts
- Intergenerational Learning
- Jewish Holidays (Chagim)
- Jewish Peoplehood
- Jewish Text and Thought
- Jewish Tradition
- Mindfulness
- Music
- Positive Psychology
- Relationship Building
- Self-care
- Social Emotional Learning
- Spirituality
- Storytelling
- Tefilah (Prayer)
- Well-being
Jon Adam Ross has co-created theater in communities around the United States and across the globe to address acute civic divisions. Jon is the Executive Director and a Co-Founding Artist of Inheritance Theater Project (ITP), a national nonprofit that bridges divisions through creative collaboration. Over the past decade, ITP has employed more than 350 artists to engage 15,000 people to collaborate across generational, political, and religious divides in projects spanning 19 cities around the country. Jon has served as an artist in residence at Harvard Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and many other religious and educational institutions. Jon has held fellowships with Cogenerate, Invested Faith, the Covenant Foundation, LABA, M², and as a Spielberg Fellow in Theater Education with the Foundation for Jewish Camp. As an actor, Jon’s stage credits include: a dog, a 2,000-year-old bird, a spurned housewife, a horse, a British naval officer, a goat, Jesus, a wrestler, a hapless police chief, and a cyclops. Jon holds a BFA from NYU/Tisch. www.inheritancetheater.org
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