Join Hadar Cohen in conversation with Hadar Ahuvia: dancer, choreographer and ritual facilitator. Hadar Ahuvia shares of her journey to dance as a politicized art form that helped her deconstruct the Zionism living in her body. She explains how Israeli folk dancing was intentionally choreographed from various ethnic dances and how this modern cultural creation was intertwined with the militaristic settling of Palestine pre-1948. As a dancer who is now in Rabbinical school, Hadar Ahuvia lets us into her process of building a spiritual relationship to Judaism without Zionism at the center and how she’s built connection to her ancestors through Eastern European Jewish practice and music.

Hadar Ahuvia is a performer, choreographer, ritual facilitator, music leader, and educator who foregrounds the body in political, social and spiritual practice. She works with movement and voice and to suture across generations and create spaces for transformation. Her essay “Joy Vey” on choreographing a diasporist identity beyond Zionism is featured in the Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance. Her years long research and deconstruction of Zionist folk dance have culminated in a cycle of performances tracing how Jewish Israeli identity is choreographed and transmitted, earned her a Bessie nomination for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer, a Dance Magazine “25 to Watch” in 2019, and is the subject of a documentary by Tatyana Tenenbaum, Everything You Have Is Yours. Ahuvia has performed and shared her research across the US/Turtle Island and internationally. She is a rabbinical student, organizes with Rabbis for Ceasefire, leads kabbalat Shabbat 3rd Fridays at Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn, and is working on a new cycle of performances that embody the distinctive sonic gestures of easterners European/ Ashkenazi davening.

To learn more about Hadar Ahuvia's work, visit:

http://hadarahuvia.com/

https://www.instagram.com/primaahuvian

https://www.dctvny.org/s/firehousecinema/series-and-events/icymi-2025/everything-you-have-is-yours

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This podcast is facilitated by Hadar Cohen.

Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political through the artistic mediums of performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound, and ritual.

To learn more about Hadar, visit hadarcohen.me //@hadarcohen32

To study at her mystical school, check out malchut.one.

Subscribe to her Substack to stay tuned to latest episodes and offerings hadarcohen.substack.com

Hadar's Web is a podcast featuring community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Available on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast and more. Check it out at malchut.one.

Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/hadarcohen and by subscribing, rating, and commenting.

Thank you for listening!

As an agricultural designer and practicing Jew, Katie Wachsberger speaks through the lens of ecology on rewilding Judaism, liberatory multi-religiosity, and a fundamental rupture caused by colonization. Katie shares about the retreat she organized in Al Andalus called Decolonizing Judaism and shows how our relationship to land serves as a mirror to the relationship we have with the Divine. In this episode, we hear about Katie’s personal journey from her modern orthodox upbringing in New York to practicing regenerative and decolonial land care across many different ecosystems.

After many years in the agri-tech and agri-business sectors, Katie has remade herself as a regenerative agro-ecologist, diving deep into the complexities surrounding human efforts to restore natural ecosystems, as well as our relationships with them. Katie is an agricultural designer and consultant, an educator and an activist, a journalist and writer, and a practicing Jew. In her work, writing, and trainings, Katie promotes non-violence, deep ecology, and indigenous land-stewardship practices as essential to the paradigm shift away from extraction and separation, necessary to end occupations of all kinds.

Join Katie and Hadar in this beautiful conversation where they weave ecology, spirituality, and society.

To follow Katie's work:

https://www.salsola-group.com/

https://www.instagram.com/kwassta?igsh=anBvNTRxeG42YXQz

https://www.katiewachsberger.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dana-lp/?viewAsMember=true

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This podcast is facilitated by Hadar Cohen.

Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political through the artistic mediums of performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound, and ritual.

To learn more about Hadar, visit hadarcohen.me //@hadarcohen32

To study at her mystical school, check out malchut.one.

Subscribe to her Substack to stay tuned to latest episodes and offerings hadarcohen.substack.com

Hadar's Web is a podcast featuring community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Available on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast and more. Check it out at malchut.one.

Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/hadarcohen and by subscribing, rating, and commenting.

Thank you for listening!

In this episode, Layla Maghribi shares personal stories of ancestral pilgrimage to Libya and Syria. She traces her family history of activism against colonialism, which she continues through her own work, and highlights the critical history of Italian colonialism in Libya that is so often overlooked. In conversation with Hadar Cohen, Layla explores the mental health impacts of exile, the necessity of community to regional resilience, and the centrality of Palestinian liberation.

You can follow Layla at laylamaghribi.com/, substack.com/@thirdculturetherapy & podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/third-culture-therapy/id1678270266

Layla Maghribi is a British-(mixed) Arab journalist, writer and podcaster based in the UK. Layla was based in the Arab world for several years working as a journalist for international media outlets, including Reuters and CNN, and she has a special interest in social issues affecting Arabic-speaking communities, particularly in relation to culture, immigration and mental health. Layla is now writing her first non-fiction book on her family's history of displacement across the Arab world over 100 years and she is the creator and host of the Third Culture Therapy podcast which explores mental health from a diverse cultural perspective.

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This podcast is facilitated by Hadar Cohen.

Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political through the artistic mediums of performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound, and ritual.

To learn more about Hadar, visit hadarcohen.me //@hadarcohen32

To study at her mystical school, check out malchut.one.

Subscribe to her Substack to stay tuned to latest episodes and offerings hadarcohen.substack.com

Hadar's Web is a podcast featuring community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Available on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast and more. Check it out at malchut.one.

Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/hadarcohen and by subscribing, rating, and commenting.

Thank you for listening!