CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
Rabbi Deborah will work with you in designing Jewish and/or community experiences that help achieve your organization's vision.
We can help you with
Staff Training Retreats and Workshops
Staff Development
Weekend or Week Long Retreats
Wedding Officiating
Women's and Men's Retreats
Jewish Summer Camp support during transition and change
Jewish-Themed Nature Hikes
B’nai Mitzvah Planning and Officiating
“Deborah has been my role model and teacher for over 25 years. She was the Director of Camp Tawonga when I was a camper, she hired me to the full time staff and remains my friend and mentor. Thanks to Deborah’s accessible Jewish teachings and outdoor Shabbat Services, I connected to my Judaism and am able to call myself a Jewish leader today!”
““Deborah was able to create a meaningful experience for our staff team that matched our personality, budget, and time-frame. A real pleasure and unqualified endorsement””
“I know Rabbi Deborah very well. She is my retreat leader and educator for the Hineni Fellowship that I direct, and she has an extraordinary track record of consulting, as well as top-notch formal and informal educational experience. She is truly one of the best in the business, and it's an honor that she has agreed to facilitate our journey to building our new school.”
Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, Senior Rabbi, Congregation Kol Shalom, Rockville MD
Our Mission
Get Set Go Community Adventures seeks to foster love and understanding of how Jewish wisdom can inform and build Jewish communities that are relevant and improve people’s lives and our world.
Our Vision
To teach Jewish wisdom in community that transforms people's lives and our world for the better
To empower people to steward Judaism and the natural world
To help people feel courage to do both
To help Jewish community leaders build a culture of love and trust through supervision
What We Have Achieved
Created the first ever Divorce and Discovery Jewish Healing Retreat -happening at Camp Tawonga October 27-30, 2022
Served on the first national faculty of Hineni, a fellowship for young LGBTQ leaders to grow their Jewish learning and leadership skills in order to serve as lay leaders in their communities
Co Designed and direct SVARA Queer Talmud Camps, now in its 6th year, serving over 200 adult participants in three locations
Designed and successfully trained three national cohorts of young Jewish outdoor leaders in an original program that combines learning to teach Judaism on the trail with best practices in safety and trip management (JOLT)
Mentored and coached over 30 Jewish overnight summer camp directors as part of national, multi-year leadership development programs for Foundation for Jewish Camp. Lekhu Lakhem created a community of directors passionate about providing the Jewish educational and visionary leadership to bring about fundamental change within their own camps.
Planned and led first retreats for: Brandeis School of San Francisco, The Kitchen SF, SVARA (Chicago), Berkshire Hills LGBTQ Family Weekend (New York), Tawonga Keshet LGBTQ Family Weekend (near Yosemite), Shalom Bayit
Co-Authored Spirit In Nature/ Teaching Judaism and Ecology On the Trail
Led workshops at 100s of Jewish learning programs around the nation
Co-Founded an outdoor Erev Rosh Hashanah Service that now draws 1400 participants
Mentored 3 JOFEE Fellows
Helped create a Shabbat music album
“Deborah is a gifted teacher, a Judaic auto-didact, and a skilled, experienced, thoughtful and insightful leader. Moreover, she is a visionary and a pioneer. A decade and a half ago, she co- authored a book titled: Spirit in Nature: Teaching Judaism and Ecology on the Trail. The book, like its author, was a trail-blazer: its publication spawned the entire field of Judaic concern about the environment, which has catalyzed the creation of many significant Jewish organizations, and an entire movement which is now widely referred to as Jewish Outdoor Farming and Environmental Education (JOFEE).”
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