This webinar is presented by Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, Executive Director of Princeton University Hillel
Date: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm PT / 6:00 pm MT / 7:00 pm CT / 8:00 p.m. ET
Webinar length is approx 90 min, ZOOM link will be sent a few days before the event
Join Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, the Executive Director of Princeton University Hillel in this deep-dive exploration of ancient Rabbinic wisdom that navigates the dissonance between painful realities and the possibility of finding hope. In this interactive exploration of rabbinic texts in translation, Steinlauf will show us how our tradition brilliantly points the way for us not to deny life’s most harrowing challenges, but rather to face them directly and courageously, thereby finding strength, inspiration and transcendence. In this discussion, we will seek to process the meaning of these teachings as they apply to our work with clients, in our role as therapists, and in our personal confrontations with life’s difficulties. No previous experience in Jewish texts necessary.
About Rabbi Gil Steinlauf:
Rabbi Gil is the Executive Director of the Center for Jewish Life, Princeton Hillel, and the Jewish Chaplain at Princeton University. For a decade, he was the senior rabbi at Adas Israel in Washington, DC. Rabbi Steinlauf co-founded three nationally recognized projects: MakomDC for 21st-century experiential Jewish learning, the Jewish Mindfulness Center of Washington for meditation, yoga, and contemplative Jewish practices, and YP@AI for Jewish Young Professionals. He was the founder and director of the Hineni Institute for LGBTQ Jewish Leadership, and the Jewish Teen Leadership Institute. He was also the co-creator of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s “Innovation Labs” for synagogue renewal. Rabbi Gil had previously been at Congregation Tifereth Israel in Columbus, Ohio, and at Temple Israel in Ridgewood, New Jersey, as well as at Kol Shalom Congregation in Rockville, Maryland. Additionally, he studied at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, earned an MHL from the University of Judaism, and received rabbinic ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
