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Summer Institute

The National Havurah Summer Institute is a week-long multi-generational celebration of Jewish learning, culture and community. Members of havurah communities, independent minyanim, and other interested individuals from across the country gather to learn, teach, daven, and innovate.  

 

At the Summer Institute, every teacher is also a student and every student is a teacher. People who are usually called “rabbi” or “professor” throughout the year go by their first names here. And people who rarely take active leadership roles in their communities discover that they, too, can teach and contribute to the community.

2026 Summer Institute
Dates & Location TBA 

Join our email list to get notified as soon as we announce next year's details and to stay in the know about applying to teach and other special programs

How do you successfully bring hundreds of people of different ages, backgrounds, personal religious observance and Jewish education level together to become a community for a week?  NHC Assembles quality educators,  creates a provocative and multi-pronged program. 

2025 Participant

New to Summer Institute? Start Here:

  • See if your question is answered on our 2025 FAQs Page

  • Browse through the full 2025 Program Guide to see everything that happens during the week.

  • Take a look at the 2025 course listings to get a sense of the diverse subjects offered each year and to learn more about the people who teach them.

  • Sign up for our email list to get the latest announcements about plans for Summer Institute 2026

  • Look for Zoom info sessions about Summer Institute in 2026 and reach out by email with questions in the meantime.

2025 Attendees

Access the shared photo drive, Slack channel,  and other attendee-only resources here. Use the password sent out by email in early July (or contact us if you can't find it!)

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