Nate DeGroot

Rabbi Nate DeGroot serves as associate director of The Shalom Center, where he is set to inherit the role of director from the organization’s founder, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, in October of 2024. Ordained at Hebrew College in 2016, he previously served as associate director, spiritual & program director at Hazon (now Adamah) in Detroit. Before that, he worked at IKAR in Los Angeles, serving as Jewish Emergent Network Rabbinic Fellow and Rabbinic Intern before that. While in rabbinical school, DeGroot also founded a grassroots cooperative Jewish community in Portland, Ore., and worked with organizations such Encounter, T’ruah, AJWS and more. A speaker and published writer, he has contributed chapters to multiple books and in 2020 spoke at The Chautauqua Institution. Living in Detroit with his wife and two kiddos, DeGroot also serves locally as a part-time congregational rabbi and educator.

Essays

Actifests: Public Rituals That Promote a More Symbiotic World

September 2, 2024

How do our Jewish symbols maintain or expand tyranny? In what ways are they hastening and hatching wholeness?

Nate DeGroot

Essays

Actifests: Public Rituals That Promote a More Symbiotic World

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