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Libby Libby is the Vice President for Public Engagement at the New Israel Fund, where she leads all aspects of NIF’s public efforts in the United States – including communications, digital, programs, events, leadership, community partnerships and engagement, New Generations and our fellowships. Prior to joining NIF, Libby lived and worked in the Israeli non-profit field for almost a decade. There she worked as Director of International Relations at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and as a strategy consultant for human rights organizations like Yesh Din and Physicians for Human Rights, for documentary films including Budrus and The Law in These Parts, new media initiatives like +972 Magazine, and for progressive campaigns. She is a founding member of Zazim-Community Action and The Whistle. Libby is based in Brooklyn and travels to Israel-Pal
DAWN Replays

Drunk (and Possibly Stoned) History of Shavuot

As part Dawn, of Reboot’s all-night interpretation of the magical and mighty holiday of Shavuot, we offer a very not sober history of Shavuot as moderated by Alex Grossman with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue in NYC, comedian Heather Pasternak and writer/comedian Joel Stein. It is one of many highlights of Reboot’s past DAWN celebrations with music, film, comedy, dance, food, teaching and more. Watch here.

DAWN is Reboot’s all-night culture and arts festival celebrating the Jewish calendar’s best-kept secret – Shavuot. 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. DAWN provided something for everyone throughout the 12 hours of music, film, comedy, dance, food and teaching across multiple channels. Dawn provided the opportunity to gather apart for a tradition that Reboot began years ago in San Francisco irl and that will live beyond this pandemic.

This year, we are offering highlights from past two online DAWN festivals and a marquee performance, “Round Midnight Reconsidered” by Bay Area guitarist composer John Schott. Reboot presented DAWN 2021 in partnership with the Jewish Emergent Network and LABA’s Into the Night Tikkun Layle Shavuot and DAWN 2020 in partnership with the Jewish Emergent Network.

To facilitate conversation and study, we have created this discussion guide to accompany our 2022 DAWN Playlist.

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Episodes

‘Til The Light Comes Shining In

Ethan Daniel Davidson, Gretchen Gonzales Davidson and Warren Defever perform the songs “Angel” and “‘Til The Light Comes Shining In.”

Waiting for the Sun to Rise

Luther Dickinson and Lamar Williams, Jr. usher in the dawn with a performance of Waiting For the Sun to Rise.

Threshing Floor

Premiering at DAWN, watch this experimental video piece obliquely inspired by the Book of Ruth. The Threshing Floor was an experimental experiment, improvising together apart during a time of plague, taking a usual time of togetherness reverberations and mediations and instead finding a unified voice by sharing ideas across currents, many miles apart, and using the time tested accompanist named chance to take the beautiful wandering vibrations and lace them together into the blanket of sound before you.

The film accompanies the album release on August 27, 2021. Learn more, download the digital file, and buy the LP here!

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Reboot Ideas Presents The Ten Commandments: A Film Rescored

Reboot released a modern-day score to Cecil B. Demille’s 1923 silent film The Ten Commandments featuring Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Steven Drozd (Flaming Lips) and Scott Amendola.They gathered together with Reboot CEO, David Katznelson, for a brilliant conversation facilitated by filmmaker Liz Nord.