Havurah Initiative

Connect with Your Local Jewish Community

Deepen your connection to your local Jewish community through the Springfield JCC’s Havurah Initiative, which is designed to cultivate local, peer-led Jewish gathering groups. You’ll have opportunities to build friendships, make meaning, and create community. With a Jewish focus, groups are broadly defined and share leadership among their members. Join a group or create your own!

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Click here to see our next Havurah event:

Men's Havurah 2/12/26

Want to join one of our havurot or start your own?

Contact Rabbi Alana Wasserman, Havurah Initiative Coordinator, for more information.

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What is a Havurah?

A havurah is an intimate community where deep, caring, supportive relationships are fostered between the members of the group as they share and explore a Jewish focus of their own choosing. The group sets its own agenda, is peer-led, and meets on an ongoing basis. The havurah should ultimately have a minimum of seven people, meet nine times a year or more, have a Jewish focus and shared leadership.

We currently have six active Havurot in our community and can support more! New Havurot can get up to $750/year for program expenses and supplies, and each connector can receive up to an additional $250/year. Grants are available for the first two years of the Havurah being active.