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Four people are gathered around a table in the bet midrash. Two of them are seated in chevruta and two are standing next to them. Everyone is focused on the text in front of them, and it appears that there is deliberation and deep attention being paid to the text.

When a Text Needs to Crash

Crash-Cycling from Simchat Torah into 5782

Two SVARA-niks sit in a bet midrash, in front of a full bookshelf made of a dark wood. They hold hands, raised in the air, above a table.

Allowing for Comfort in Cycles of Crash

A campfire burns at night in a stone firepit.

Holding Limitless Potential Amidst Crash

Someone holds a metal paperweight in their left hand. Text on the paperweight reads, "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"

And Then They’ll Just Call It Judaism

A large gathering of SVARA-niks at Queer Talmud Camp. Folks are sitting and standing for a group photo. They have their arms raised over their hands in celebration.

A Third Torah from Sinai: Revising Our Myth for a New Jewish Era

A group of SVARA-niks, a few of whom are playing guitars, sit around a campfire at night.

Resetting the Ritual Clock

The Future in its Infancy

A group of SVARA-niks stand in a circle around a burning havdalah candle. In the foreground, a SVARA-nik is wearing fairy wings on their back.

Don’t Worry, (or Go Ahead and Worry but Still) Be Happy—a Talmudic prescription for turbulent times

A Zoom whiteboard, covered in colorful squiggles and snippets of text in English and Hebrew.

Staying Whole in the Face of Unbelievable Brokenness

I Don’t Know What Comes Next

A Talmud sits on a shtender, with colored stickies marking various places in the text.

The Rabbis Have Our Backs

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