Rabbi Adina Allen
Co-Founder & Creative Director

Rabbi Adina Allen (she/her) is a spiritual leader, writer and educator who believes in the power of creativity to revitalize our lives and transform Jewish tradition. Integrating a lifetime of experience in the expressive arts with her rabbinic training, Adina has taught clergy, educators and lay leaders in hundreds of Jewish communal institutions across the country. Adina’s writing is widely published and her original research on using creative process to generate contemporary midrash was published in the CCAR Journal in 2013. She is a recipient of the Covenant Foundation’s 2018 Pomegranate Prize for emerging Jewish Educators and is a fellow of the Open Dor Project for spiritual Jewish entrepreneurs. Adina was ordained in Hebrew College’s pluralistic training program in Boston in 2014 where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. You can reach her at adina@jewishstudioproject.org.

This year Adina published her first book, “The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom,” which pairs spiritual wisdom with art therapy, liberation theology, and creativity research.