2026-2027 Climate Torah Rabbinic Student Fellow

Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action’s mission is to secure a just, livable, and sustainable world for all people for generations to come by building a Jewish movement that confronts the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action.

The 2026-2027 Climate Torah Rabbinic Fellow will work closely with Dayenu’s Director of Spiritual Activism & Education, the Spiritual Adaptation team, and Jewish climate leaders and culture-creators across the country to grow and support the Jewish climate movement, with a focus on the development, distribution, and teaching of Climate Torah.

Dayenu’s Spiritual Adaptation work builds a spiritually-rooted movement through:

• Climate Torah: We anchor all of Dayenu’s movement building work in Jewish wisdom, from classical rabbinics to contemporary scholars, holiday cycles, history, and cultural wisdom. We believe that Torah (writ large) can help us live well in this time of transformation, grief, hopeful possibility, and uncertainty, and can be a powerful guide for our justice work.
• Workshops and Experiences: We create brave spaces for American Jews across generations, geographies, and identities to face climate realities, process grief, cultivate imagination, and set off on a path of bold, resilient action. Dayenu’s Spiritual Adaptation theory of change is inspired by Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects and draws on Jewish teachings, music, and embodied practice.
• Climate Music & Arts: We are amplifying, resourcing, and growing the fields of Jewish climate music and writing with the aim of inspiring and mobilizing individuals and communities to engage with Dayenu’s climate justice work for the long-haul. We partner with artists, musicians, and organizations to curate and launch music and arts resources, like Dayenu’s songbook, the “Midrash & Imagination” creative writing workshop, and Gatherings for Song & Solidarity,

Fellowship Description and Responsibilities:

The Climate Torah Rabbinic Fellow serves as a key member of the Spiritual Adaptation team and will focus on developing, teaching, and reaching broad audiences with Dayenu’s existing and emerging Climate Torah. In the past, our Climate Torah Fellows have developed climate-themed source sheets and learning opportunities for Jewish climate leaders, taught climate batei midrash sessions and creative writing workshops, shared Torah via Instagram, collaborated on Dayenu holiday resources, and helped design ritual guides for campaigns and election work.

We are excited for a Climate Torah Rabbinic Fellow to build relationships with clergy networks, Jewish climate volunteer leaders, culture-creators (musicians, artists), and to help create, develop, and leverage new Dayenu Torah and holiday resources in mainstream and activist spaces, on social media, in congregations, on the streets, and in solidarity and collaboration with frontline and multifaith communities.

In particular, a fellow will:

• Get to know Dayenu’s Climate Torah and help design a strategy to communicate about and share existent source sheets, resources, and teachings with a broad network of Jewish clergy and activists through social media, programs, shiurim, etc.
• Help leverage Jewish wisdom frameworks across Dayenu’s work. This could include campaign actions and trainings, resources for Dayenu Circles, and virtual or in-person events. This includes opportunities to collaborate with Dayenu’s Communications and Campaigns & Organizing teams.
• Track the results of your work and make adjustments to meet shared goals.
• Support Climate Torah and holiday planning, resource development, and engagement.
• Contribute to building a culture and practice of spirit, joy, impact, ritual, and community.
• Participate in group and individual reflection on climate work as rabbinic practice.

Qualifications:

• Excitement to engage with Torah (writ large) as a source of spiritual sustenance for climate justice work.
• Comfort accessing and learning classical Jewish sources (including Torah, Talmud, Midrash) in their original and in translation, as well as an openness to learn from and share contemporary and cultural Jewish wisdom (poetry, history, music, etc.).
• Experience teaching Jewish sources (classical to contemporary) and making them accessible for learners of many Jewish educational backgrounds.
• Ability to work well both independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to track and manage tasks, give attention to detail, and follow through on projects.
• Strong listening skills and interpersonal communication including over email, text, and phone.
• A track record of building relationships across lines of difference and a commitment to anti-racist practices.
• Experience working online and with social media are a plus.

Location: The position is fully remote with occasional opportunities for in-person teaching, meetings, and actions, particularly in New York, Massachusetts, or California. Fellows can be based anywhere in the U.S. This position reports to Dayenu’s Director of Spiritual Activism & Education, Rabbi Laura Bellows, who is based in Boston.

Position Dates and Hours: September 2, 2026 – May 28, 2027 (9 months – which is 37 weeks + two weeks off of your choice), with a commitment of 8 hours per week.

Compensation: This rabbinic fellowship stipend is $10,280 total, paid monthly.

To apply, please upload a resume and cover letter to d.aye.nu/apply by Monday, March 9, 2026. In your cover letter, please share why you are interested in working with Dayenu and the Jewish climate movement and highlight your teaching, facilitating, integrating activism and Torah, and/or any other relevant experience for this position.

Dayenu is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to racial equity and accessibility. Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA people are strongly encouraged to apply. Dayenu does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, sex, age, gender identity or expression, or other status protected by applicable law.