Hadar's Web

Register for Between Worlds: An Arab Jewish Group Healing Process, October 8 - November 12https://www.malchut.one/arabjewishhealing Shelly Elia-Shalev (she/her) is a Mizrahi Arab-Jew, born and raised in Israel/Palestine, who has lived in the United States since 2018. She is a psychotherapist specializing in complex trauma, attachment wounds, and the psychological impact of multicultural and migration experiences in both individuals and couples. Shelly's goal is to help people reconnect with their inner truth, intuition, and capacity for authentic self-expression. Before moving to the United States, Shelly was active in the Mizrahi left, where she explored the multilayered and often contradictory narratives that shaped her own identity and the history of her Iraqi Jewish family. This commitment to examining silenced and marginalized histories also informed her ethnographic research, which focused on the stories, memories, and lived experiences of Mizrahi immigrants from North Africa to Israel/Palestine. Shelly's lifelong project as a researcher, activist, and therapist has been to explore narratives, intuitions, and knowledge that fall outside dominant frameworks of legitimacy. Drawing from oral history, somatic approaches, and non-Western traditions of knowing, she is interested in how embodied experience, ancestral memory, and personal narrative can reveal truths that are frequently overlooked, dismissed, or difficult to measure through conventional research methods. Across her work, she seeks to create space for silenced stories and ways of knowing to be recognized, validated, and integrated. *** 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!

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 *** 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   *** 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.   *** 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!

Listen into this conversation with Juliette Samman to learn about a grassroots movement led by Palestinians who articulate a vision of liberation through the One Democratic State Initiative.   The “One Democratic State” solution is a political vision that identifies Zionism’s settler-colonial endeavor as the root cause of suffering and violence in Palestine, and its politicization of identity as a danger to the cohesion and health of societies. It proposes the transition to One Democratic State as the only possible solution.  The One Democratic State Initiative aims to mobilize individuals, entities and political parties, in Palestine and abroad, behind such an endeavor. Juliette joined a year ago based on her shared vision of what a free Palestine should look like. In this episode, we discuss the accomplishments, challenges, and reach of the ODSI and the 5 tenants of what happens in this decolonized democratic and secular state.  Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:41 The Origins of the One Democratic State Initiative 08:52 The Politicization of Identity  14:16 The need for a democratic state 16:51 Challenges  23:32 Achievements  31:17 Why include Israelis & Jews in the ODSI 37:07 How to get involved and support 41:41 The Five Characteristics of the ODS 46:37 Conclusion Support ODSI by joining the movement at: odsi.co/en/  Read their Declaration for Tomorrow's Palestine: odsi.co/en/statements/declaration-tomorrows-palestine/ Follow ODSI on social media and amplify their work: www.instagram.com/odsinitiative/www.twitter.com/odsinitiativewww.youtube.com/@odsinitiativewww.facebook.com/odsinitiative Bios Juliette Samman is a researcher specializing in decolonial studies, with a focus on social justice and the Middle East. Her work is deeply intertwined with her identity as a French individual of Syrian heritage and her personal ties to Palestine, rooted in relationships and lived experiences, which come in the context of Palestine's organic and historical ties with Syria. 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.