As Election Day approaches, many of us are wondering how we’ll spend the night. Waiting for polls to close and the results to start rolling in, will you be obsessively refreshing the news? Glued to your favorite anchors? Hiding under the bed? Come center yourself, learn Torah, and listen to great music with us instead!
T’ruah invites you to an alternative Election Night broadcast: Tikkun Leil Election!
Modeled on the Tikkun Leil Shavuot, when Jews stay up all night studying Torah, our Tikkun will offer inspiration, community, and courage for whatever comes next. Whether you’re coming straight from the polls or settling in at home, come spend the evening with others who share your values and hopes for this moment, rather than facing the results alone.
Program
Meditative opening: Kohenet Keshira haLev Fife
Appreciation to our poll chaplains: Rabbi Mol Paul
Words of Torah: Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Music: Rachel Chang
Somatic/embodied exercise: Rabbi Batya Elana Ellinoy
Closing: Rabbi Jonah Winer
Bios
Rachel Chang is a queer mixed-race Chinese-American Jew, and a musician, songleader, and educator, currently living in Philadelphia, PA. She is currently the director of A Queer Nigun Project, which uses nigunim (spiritual wordless melody) as a collective healing practice for LGBTQIA+ people, for Jews of Color, and for incarcerated people in Jewish community, and she is the ritual director at LUNAR: The Asian Jewish Collective. She has been pulled toward music for as long as she can remember, finding voice in it, finding power in it, learning to channel it to move energy and shape moments.
Rabbi Batya Elana Ellinoy is a rabbi, educator, prayer leader, spiritual counselor, and certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner whose work explores the intersection of Jewish wisdom, embodied practice, resilience, and renewal. She serves as Associate Rabbi at Temple Sinai in Marblehead, MA, and teaches in Hebrew College’s Master’s in Jewish Education program. She is the creator of the Prayer Keys, a set of companion cards that cultivate awareness, attunement, and reflection on the rhythms of prayer and our own lived experience.
Kohenenet Keshira haLev Fife (she/they) is a Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) and a bi-racial, queer Jewish person who delights in her work as a facilitator, teacher, consultant, davennatrix (shlichat tzibbur), and lifespiral ceremony/ritual creatrix. She serves as Founding Kohenet of Kesher Pittsburgh and Core Faculty Member with the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, is host of the Judaism Unbound podcast series, Rest to Return, and also enjoys working with The Jewish Studio Project, Kirva, beloved and the Jewish Learning Collaborative, among other national Jewish organizations (photo credit: Tim Fife).
Rabbi Jill Jacobs (she/her) is the CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, an organization that trains and mobilizes more than 2,300 rabbis and cantors and their communities to bring a moral voice to protecting and advancing human rights in North America, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Rabbi Mol Paul (she/they) is the T’ruah Rabbinic National Organizer. They are passionate about creating opportunities for people to connect more deeply with themselves, their communities, and the natural world, understanding how essential these connections are — not only to a meaningful spiritual life, but to our collective liberation.
Rabbi Jonah Winer (he/him) is T’ruah’s Director of Learning. Ordained by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York, he was worked at NYU’s Bronfman Center and the Kehillah of Riverdale, as well as Brown-RISD Hillel.