Community Network

Helping synagogues flourish as a vibrant home for mindfulness and deep Jewish connection

Become an Inaugural Member!

Facilitated by Rabbi Marc Margolius

Download a printable flier to share with your board and/or staff

Deepen your offerings, engage your members in ongoing spiritual practice, and expand the perks of membership with our easy-to-access, free, turnkey programs.

Why Join the IJS Community Network?

As a clergy member already connected to IJS, you know the transformative power of Jewish mindfulness and spiritual practice. Our faculty bring that IJS “special sauce” that inspires, engages and enlightens. Now we’re offering an opportunity for clergy leaders to share what you love about our embodied practices, Torah studies, and meditation sits, directly with your congregants. By joining the IJS Community Network, you are nurturing and expanding the sacred work you are already doing to bring these practices to your congregants. This partnership serves as a supportive companion to your rabbinate, allowing you to:

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  • Deepen Spiritual Engagement with Ease: Rather than building every program from scratch, you can offer your members immediate, free access to our daily meditation sits—including space for healing prayers and Mourners’ Kaddish—as well as our weekly online yoga studio and specialized affinity sits for younger adults, LGBTQ+, Jews of Color and other affinity groups.
  • Enrich the Benefits of Belonging: Provide meaningful, high-value spiritual resources to your members, such as complimentary access to The Gift of Awareness (IJS’s flagship mindfulness course) and special discounts or group rates for programs designed for parents, empty-nesters, and retirees.
  • Widen Your Circle of Connection: IJS helps you reach new members by featuring your synagogue on our website and in our monthly newsletter to over 30,000 subscribers, helping you meet prospective families and members in a way that feels organic and welcoming.
  • Infuse Practice Throughout the Lifecycle: From our “Peaceful Parent Program” to support your preschool families, to online yoga and other classes that can engage your Sisterhood, the IJS Community Network provides gentle entry points to make Jewish wisdom accessible at every stage of life.

Find Strength in Community: We invite you and your staff to join our circle of other Community Network members to share best practices and resources, ensuring your path in leading this spiritual work is shared and supported.

Join the Community Network!

All IJS Community Network Members will receive:

Access to free programs for your members

  • Daily online meditation sit (including healing prayers and Mourners’ Kaddish)
  • Weekly online Yoga Studio
  • Weekly online young adult mindfulness meditation for 20s and 30s
  • Monthly online affinity mindfulness sessions (LGBTQ+ Jews, Jews with Disabilities, Jews of Color)
  • Complimentary access to The Gift of Awareness: Cultivating Mindfulness Through Jewish Meditation, IJS’s flagship, self-paced online course in Jewish meditation.

Discounts and group rates for additional programs

  • Unique 10% off discount code for your members to take IJS paid online courses.
  • Special group rates for paid courses ideal for younger adults, new parents, empty-nesters, and retirees.

     

    IJS will help expand your community’s reach by

    • Featuring you as a member on IJS’s Community Network web page
    • Boosting your community in our monthly newsletter (over 30,000 subscribers) and through IJS social media channels
    • Promoting your community’s programs through targeted emails to IJS subscribers in your area
    • Connecting you with like-minded leaders and communities for sharing best practices and resources

    We will also provide sample text and graphics to include in your newsletters, calendars and social posts. Your staff will also be invited to share your content with us.

    Join the Network using the button below or contact Rabbi Marc Margolius marc@jewishspirituality.org

    Join the Community Network!

    Meet Rabbi Marc Margolius

    Director of the IJS Community Network

     

    Rabbi Marc Margolius serves as advisor for overall programming for IJS, and directs programming for lay leaders as well as Hevraya, the alumni of our Clergy Leadership Program. He hosts the “Daily Sit,” IJS’s online daily mindfulness meditation sessions, and teaches courses for IJS, including Awareness in Action: Cultivating Character through Mindfulness and Middot, our online program in tikkun middot practice, integrating Jewish mindfulness with attention to core middot, character traits.

    Previously, Marc served as rabbi at West End Synagogue in Manhattan and Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley, PA, where he pioneered a Shabbat-centered model of congregational engagement. He developed and led the Legacy Heritage Innovation Project at the Legacy Heritage Fund from 2005-2010, an initiative to promote systemic educational change in congregations around the globe.

    Long active in social justice activism, Marc is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and of Yale Law School and lives in New York City.