Talking about Death and Dying – Center for Applied Torah

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About the Cohort

Join Atra and Shomer Collective for a six month cohort-based experience, designed to help you transform your community’s conversation about death and dying.

             

 

Program Components

  • Content sessions: Virtual sessions that help you interrogate death and dying Jewishly & consider its relevance to your own work as rabbis.
  • Community of action and practice:  A peer-led learning space where rabbis experiment and do differently together—so your communities can do differently too.

Your Commitment

  • Attend all content sessions and monthly CoAP meetings
  • Participate in the opening session and closing siyyum
  • Apply your learning in your community using the frameworks explored in your CoAP
  • Engage fully and collaborate across differences within a cohort

Key Dates

All meetings will take place from 1-2:30 pm ET / 10-11:30 am PT

  • Opening Session: January 29, 2026
  • Content Sessions: February 26, March 26, April 23, May 14, 2026
  • Closing Siyyum: June 11, 2026
  • CoAP Meetings: Typically held during the week following each content session. You will sign up for a time that works for your schedule at the start of the program.

Applications are now closed

Applications for Center for Applied Torah: Talking about Death and Dying are now closed. To stay informed about future Atra programs, please sign up here.

Atra’s Commitment to Accessibility

If there are ways that we can support you to be able to participate in this program, please be in touch with Rabbi Maddie Cooper.