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Tehilah EisenstadtTehilah Eisenstadt

Tehilah Eisenstadt founded Wonder and Repair, through which she develops approaches to community-building and care that incorporate best practices in trauma-informed education and ritual. Her 12 years of interfaith speaking engagements, education consulting, and organizing led to Wonder and Repair’s first project in 2020: God Conversations. A second cohort launched in 2026. Tehilah is currently Associate Director of Congregational Learning at East End Temple, a Clal associate, and a 2027 candidate for rabbinic ordination at The Academy for Jewish Religion. She spent 15 years serving as a Director of Education in synagogues, day schools, and JCCs across the denominational spectrum throughout New York City’s five boroughs. In those roles, Tehilah focused on deepening the emotional resonance of educational experiences, creating a leadership pipeline through staff mentorship, and enabling Jews who felt they didn’t belong to connect with the Jewish community. Tehilah holds Master’s degrees in Midrash and Jewish Education from The Jewish Theological Seminary and a B.A. in English Literature from Binghamton University. She lives in Brooklyn.

Swimming Under an Apocalyptic Sun

September 3, 2026 by Tehilah Eisenstadt

Apocalyptic times are scary, but as my movie and poetry teachers remind me, they also reveal our most intrinsic selves, and therefore what is most important to us.

Categories Inspiring Story

Learning to Pray on the back of a Jet Ski

August 20, 2026 by Tehilah Eisenstadt

Suddenly my mind formed a prayer. “May my oneness connect with the oneness of the dolphins.” More flowed forth: “May my echad connect to my son’s joy of speed and jet power.”

Categories Another Way Of Looking At Things, Who am I

Education and Allyship Are the Antidotes to Hate 

July 24, 2026 by Tehilah Eisenstadt

The feeling of being in a space devoted to care, not by Jews for Jews but by allies for Jews, was almost breathtaking.

Categories Compassion and Empathy Tags Interfaith

What Cows and Donkeys Can Teach Us About How to Grieve

June 29, 2026 by Tehilah Eisenstadt

Death and grief affect many people who seem ancillary to those most directly impacted.

Categories Bring The Sacred Down To Earth, Compassion and Empathy Tags Grief
Capture from a training video from https://kavodvnichum.org/

Everyone is Holy 

June 18, 2026 by Tehilah Eisenstadt

I know nothing more about him, despite how intimately we spent time with his body, but I know that he was and is holy.

Categories Compassion and Empathy

Parenting teens when we don’t have the answers: Good, bad, and very bad ideas from Talmud

May 28, 2026 by Tehilah Eisenstadt

As we parent teens, we might not have helpful answers, or any answers at all, but we need to show up for their passionate questions.

Categories Compassion and Empathy

Finding Your Calling In The Margins

April 16, 2026April 15, 2026 by Tehilah Eisenstadt

In a world that calls for our attention in hundreds of ways each week, how do we choose where to place our focus?

Categories Compassion and Empathy, Weekly D'Var Tags "Weekly D'Var"

Forgiveness is not the point. Repair is.

March 17, 2026 by Tehilah Eisenstadt

But I am not interested in forgiveness right now. Forgiveness centers those who harm.

Categories Compassion and Empathy

The Inner Strength Needed For Interfaith Work

July 23, 2025July 22, 2025 by Tehilah Eisenstadt

The invisible, integral, balancing stomach-muscle engagement of interfaith work is building a space with trust.

Categories Belonging, Who am I Tags Interfaith

A Jew who has nothing to do with immigration

January 6, 2025 by Tehilah Eisenstadt

On this trip, I learned about the unspeakable horrors people of all ages, including children, must endure to come to a more promised land.

Categories Compassion and Empathy, Soul Writings Tags Immigration
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