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Reboot is an arts and culture nonprofit that reimagines, reinvents and reinforces Jewish thought and traditions. As a premier R&D platform for the Jewish world, we catalyze our Reboot Network of preeminent creators, artists, entrepreneurs and activists to produce experiences and products that evolve the Jewish conversation and transform society.
Learn more our work in the following video, created to celebrate our 18th year; you can read about our new strategic roadmap in this blog post from our executive director, David Katznelson.
DAWN: A Cosmic Reunion
Reboot's DAWN, an all-night culture and arts festival celebrating the Jewish calendar’s best-kept secret - Shavuot has come and gone. But you will be able to watch the entire show and selected segments soon through our website. Reboot produced this year’s “choose-your-own” experiential adventure in partnership with the Jewish Emergent Network and LABA’s “Into the Night” Tikkun Layle Shavuot. On the heels of its digital debut in 2020, DAWN provided something for everyone throughout 12 hours of music, film, comedy, dance, food and teaching across multiple channels.
The Ten Commandments: A Film Rescored
For Passover 2021, Reboot released a modern-day score to Cecil B. Demille's 1923 classic silent film The Ten Commandments with Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Steven Drozd (Flaming Lips) and Scott Amendola.
Berlin, Drozd and Amendola created a momentous new score for the Exodus tale, musically following Moses out of Egypt and into the Dessert where he receives the Ten Commandments. Watch it here and join Reboot for a Reboot Ideas Conversation with the artists March 30.
Reboot Ideas Presents: Behind the Scenes with Creators of Saturday Night Seder
Sunday, March 14, 2021
Rooted in tradition but rewritten to include comedy, music, and sketches, Saturday Night Seder was a grassroots effort put together in just over two weeks at the start of the pandemic by a small team working remotely around the country.
In a time of confinement and uncertainty, a rag-tag team of Jews and non-Jewish Passover enthusiasts felt it was more important than ever to channel creative energies and gather community to reinterpret the timeless story of liberation and renewal while raising money for those on the front lines enduring — and fighting — an actual plague.
Dwelling in a Time of Plagues - At Our Table
From Detroit-based artist Olivia Guterson, “At Our Table” is a reimagining of a Passover table constructed from locally sourced, discarded single-use plastics, illuminating the concept of convenience, throwaway culture, and environmental responsibility during a holiday centered on the joy and the sacrifices necessary in finding our own personal liberation.
The installation is a collaboration of Reboot and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, made possible with the generous support of CANVAS. The work is part of the national project – Dwelling in a Time of Plagues – which makes new art possible at outdoor sites.
Reboot Ideas Presents: Plastover
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Reboot recently hosted Jonathan Bines, social change consultant Jessy Tolkan and Plastic Pollution Coalition CEO and Co-Founder Dianna Cohen for a conversation that leverages Passover's power of symbology and transformation to use plastic to spark a sustained climate intervention. This conversation kicked off our Plastover project, a commitment to eliminating single-use plastics during Passover this year!
This conversation was a part of The Big Bold Jewish Climate Fest
When the Nights Get Dark,
We Light Them Up
This Hanukkah, we shared gifts of imagination from our community of culture creators. They offered quick bits of things to read, watch and hear - along with recommendations of places to give.
We asked our community to share the music, art and ideas giving them light right now. Enjoy those gifts, find your own light and pass it along.
8 nights. 8 sparks of Imagination. 8 places that need your light
Art and Artists on
Being Black and Jewish
A dynamic group of Canadian and U.S. artists who identify as Black and Jewish came together for an unparalleled conversation on art and identity hosted by Reboot’s Rabbinic Fellow and theatre artist, Kendell Pinkney. See and hear the compelling artistic work of Ella Cooper, Rebecca S’manga Frank, Sara Yacobi-Harris and Anthony Russell. As a jumping off point for a lively dialogue, each artist shared projects that explore the intersection of Jewishness and Blackness through film, photography, music and performance. Catch the recording below:
Reboot Ideas
For 19 years, Reboot has been gathering some of the best and brightest change-agents for off-the-record conversations about Jewish identity and meaning, and has seen first-hand the power of imagination and uncensored dialogue to translate and transform the big issues of our time. As the stakes rise, we will amplify these vital ideas, bring in wider perspectives and carve new futuristic pathways for wandering Jews and the world we live in.
Sukkot 2020 - Dwelling in a Time of Plagues
In celebration of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Reboot and Holocaust Museum LA marked the moment with a weeklong free public art exhibit in Pan Pacific Park.
The Ushpizin of the Silver Screen is a reinvention of the traditional Sukkah as an old-time Hollywood era movie house, projecting stories on screens to commemorate this time under quarantine and to give a voice to our elders.
Higher Holidays 2020
An epic global celebration to ring in the Jewish New Year with Reboot and Hillel International. Special guests included Broadway performers, Hollywood screenwriters and more! Check out highlights, full videos, and resources online at www.higherholidays.org
Cooking Up Classics
Jena Friedman isn’t a chef. In fact, she’s barely a cook. And she’s not great at following instructions. Which can get tricky, because most recipes have instructions. Trapped at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, comedian found that her mind wandered to the darkest places.
The stand up comic, writer and filmmaker turned to the one necessary and time-consuming distraction - cooking. In the new video series, the Joy of Quarantine, Jena attempts to concoct dishes of her Eastern European Jewish roots with a pinch of acerbity.
New Podcast:
A twice-weekly series of funny, insightful, and revealing 10-minute conversations between some of America's least house-leaving artists and thinkers, and 14-time Emmy-winning former Daily Show executive producer Steve Bodow. Offering a quick hit of connection, In Quarantine is about how creative people are living, personally and professionally, in this very weird time.
SATURDAY NIGHT SEDER
A streaming Passover Seder to benefit the CDC Foundation’s Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund
In partnership with StoryCourse, we gathered a panoply of performers, musicians, and religious scholars around the digital table to share stories, songs - raising over $2 million support the CDC Foundation’s Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund. The stacked lineup included: Dan Levy, Ilana Glazer, Nick Kroll, Jason Alexander, Idina Menzel, Ben Platt and many, many more.
Watch and Learn More: saturdaynightseder.com
Press Highlights
Learn more about the depth of our impact by exploring the featured press pieces that have highlighted our projects!
Who better to give us lessons to apply throughout our lives and show us how to face those later years with dignity, spirituality, wit and candor than our elders who are living out loud in their silver years?
A growing series of short documentaries that celebrates how we can live better while living longer.
Death over dinner: jewish edition
Piloted in Los Angeles in partnership with IKAR and now launched in San Francisco and Chicago, Death Over Dinner: Jewish Edition explores the roles, rituals and meanings of death in the Jewish context as a way to bring light and life into the conversation.
Supported by generous grants from the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles and the Breakthrough Fund: An Innovation of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago.
Reboot teamed up with Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish to welcome a theater full of refugees to their June 20th performance. Every seat that night was underwritten to celebrate the unique stories and journeys of this community and encouraged them to share their own.
You can read more here!
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