SVIVAH

SVIVAH is a women-designed, women-run, women-centered community dedicated to exploring, designing, and discovering a more nourishing, inspiring, and connected Jewish communal experience for women. The purpose of “community” is to make us stronger, nurture our values, show us where we belong, inspire and enable us to achieve more than we can alone. It is time for women to ensure that our Jewish community fills these universal communal needs for ourselves. As an inclusive, women-only space in the Jewish community, SVIVAH serves as a training ground, a safe space for skill-building and exploration, a “dugout” to empower women to be at their best when they go back out on the “playing field” of our professional and social spheres. SVIVAH is committed to creating communal conversations and support for women’s health, wealth, spiritual, professional, and personal empowerment as a vehicle for strengthening us as individuals and making us more powerful as a collective. It is a space for meaningful interactions with like-minded, like-hearted individuals and an opportunity to be strengthened by what we have in common, while growing from the ways we differ. Let us not waste the incredible strength and value of our diverse, multigenerational Jewish womanhood. Women are strengthened by each other; the Jewish community will be better for our strength. Of us. By us. For us.

In an ever-increasingly egalitarian global society, there is need for a women-only space for Jewish women to convene, connect, and build confidence through community. There is proven scientific benefit to women connecting meaningfully with other women. Neurologically, women benefit from the community of other women – women who share their values and life-experience. We want to invest in connections built on shared experience rather than common demographics or location. We want to widen the pipleline to the bounty of community resources intended to help us live our strongest lives. In times that are increasingly fraught by “the plague of loneliness”, lack of connection, limited time, why not maximize the purposefulness of our Jewish community and its value to its women? Women are stronger with community – let’s give it to them.