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.
Apply to Join
Apply today to be part of the Center for Applied Torah: Talking about Death and Dying cohort. Applications are due by January 9, 2026.*
Thanks to the generous support of the Aviv foundation, this cohort is free of cost for participants.
*If you are in the first year of mourning for someone close, please be in touch with Rabbi Maddie Cooper before applying to this cohort.
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.