ShavuotLIVE 2023 was amazing!! Via the playlist below, you can access any of the 24 hours of ShavuotLIVE, if you missed them (or if you were there, but you want to go back and re-watch).
Start-Time: Friday, May 26th, 12 pm ET/9 am Pacific
Conclusion: Saturday, May 27th, 12 pm ET/9 am Pacific
What’s Shavuot?
What’s ShavuotLIVE?
Shavuot is a Jewish holiday that many have never observed before. But we think it's a great one! One of its traditions has been staying up all night, learning in community with others. But we're greedy. We don’t just want all-night...we want all-night AND all-day! So we offer an event called ShavuotLIVE, which creates a marathon of 24 straight hours of learning, for FREE, available anywhere on the planet with internet access. Over the course of its first two years, ShavuotLIVE has reached over 1,000 participants, all around the world!
We’ve invited an incredible slate of presenters, who will collectively teach for 24 straight hours, beginning at 12 pm Eastern on Friday, May 26th and concluding at 12 pm Eastern on Saturday, May 27th.
You can come for just 1 session, go to 3 or 4, or shoot for 24 in a row! Whatever works for you, we want your Shavuot to be special, and full of learning!
Shavuot 2023 Schedule
Friday, May 26th
Noon-1 pm ET: Welcome to ShavuotLIVE! (Lex Rofeberg, Dan Libenson, Katie Kaestner-Frenchman, Todd Brecher)
1-2 pm ET: Rabbi Akiva and the Centrality of Torah (Becky Silverstein)
2-3 pm ET: Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz: Gender, Fear, and Conformity in the Book of Ruth (Barbara Thiede)
3-4 pm ET: Periphery: A Short Film - Bearing Witness to Ethnic Diversity in the Jewish Community (Akilah Allen-Silverstein)
4-5 pm ET: Religion in the Revolution: A Theology of Action with Clergy United Against Cop City (Nate DeGroot, Keyanna Jones, Mike Rothbaum)
5-6 pm ET: "Wait, That's Jewish?" The Past, Present, and Future of Confirmation (Catherine Horowitz)
6-7 pm ET: Let Me See Wonders in Toratah (Yael Kanarek)
7-8 pm ET: True Stewardship: An Interfaith Approach to Shavuot (Emma Newbery)
8-9 pm ET: Sinai Anew?! What Should the Ten Utterances Be for Our Era? (Arthur Waskow, Tamara Cohen)
9-10 pm ET: Musings of a Wannabe Broadway Star turned Social Justice Rabbi (Lizz Goldstein)
10-11 pm ET: Coffee Talk: The Stimulating History of one of Judaism's Most Important Drinks (Avery Robinson)
11 pm-Midnight ET: To Boldly Go Where No Jew Has Gone Before: Sci-Fi Worldbuilding And Roleplaying As Midrash (Shawn Harris and Matt Perry)
Saturday, 5/27th
Midnight-1 am ET: Getting the Last Laugh: The "Beautiful Jewess" in Millennial Web Comedy (Jonathan Branfman)
1-2 am ET: The Joy of Jewish Hatewatching: Holy Kvetching About Jewish Media (Lisa Huberman)
2-3 am ET: Ani L'dodi V'dodi Li: Queering the Jewish Wedding (Toby King)
3-4 am ET: Sacred Cinema - The Representation of Everyday Divinity (Lievnath Faber)
4-5 am ET: TikT(o)khines: Personal Prayers for the Social Media Scroll (Cameron Bernstein)
5-6 am ET: (BYOT): Bring Your Own Torah…to teach everyone (ShavuotLIVE Community)
6-7 am ET: Shema: Listening & Receiving (Ketzirah Lesser)
7-8 am ET: Breaking the Law: Carceral Paradigms in Judaism (Xava De Cordova)
8-9 am ET: Bard-Mitzvah: Generating Drash with AI (Annie Prusky)
9-10 am ET: Rabbinic Time Travel: What Walter Benjamin & Talmud Have to Say About Time (Chava Shapiro)
10-11 am ET: Everything is a Mishkan (Temporary Structure)(Dan Libenson)
11 am-Noon Et: We Made It! Reflections on ShavuotLIVE from the Top of the Mountain (ShavuotLIVE Community)