Shma Koleinu – The Center for Prayer and Community is a pluralistic institute for the study and practice of prayer through teaching, research/publication, and outside consultation. Dedicated to inspiring and empowering individual, religious leaders, and communities to engage with Jewish prayer in meaningful and transformative ways, the center will offer seminars and workshops to individual and groups across the religious spectrum that will cultivate an enhanced appreciation of prayer in participants’ personal and communal lives. Its teaching, publications, and consultations will focus on the capacity of Jewish prayer to enrich rich personal meaning, fulfillment in relationships, ethical sensitivity, communal unity, and social consciousness.