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Creative multi-generational solutions are quite attainable. We tend not to attain them because we tend not to look for them in the first place. With the young-adult generations being relatively undetermined at present, with regard to organized Jewish community and what it's good for, yet eager to be challenged to leadership, I see a golden opportunity to propose the challenge of imagining functional multi-generational models.Read the complete piece: l'Dor v'Dor multi-generational Judaism generational consumerism
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Be A Disciple OF The Rain All the big time mystics tell us to surrender. I’m certainly not going to contradict them. But a lot depends on what is meant by surrender. To surrender to the place of the Infinite can be a frightening statement.
Reagan was right after all. Trees truly are responsible for the massive release of gas into the atmosphere. Witness the great SeaTac Christmas tree debacle , which has exploded into a national pissing match over the so-called "War on Christmas.&
(to Generation and Generation) I spent last Shabbat in Olympia , in order to attend the downtown Saturday-afternoon tribute to an old teacher of mine who passed away.
Jewish Journal’s “Video Jew” Jay Firestone brings us his video journalism about elections in addition to his thoughts on meatball-schwarma subs and, uh, mah-jong. Enjoy.
Newsweek released its top lists of rabbis for the year - the Top 25 Pulpit Rabbis in America and the Top 50 Influential Rabbis in America . Of the top 25 pulpit rabbis, at least 9 have present or past relationships with Synagogue 2000/3000. That’s nearly 40% of the top synagogue leaders.
Delivered at the CCAR convention, Cincinnati, March 31 2008 Steven M.
B"H Here is an experimental flyer for a proposed Yom Kippur Retreat this year in Oregon. The Rabbi's name who may facilitate with me has been withheld pending his decision to participate. (But Blogger is not cooperating-- so you'll have to wait to see!)
B"H Friend Tzipporah has posted an excellent article on "Defining Liberalism" here: www.midianitemanna.blogspot.com/
I hate to give this batshit crazy publicity whore any more attention than he’s already received, but the shirt above is my response to NYC-based Israeli designer Apollo Braun’s latest abomination (covered here in Metro).
I would never say that exchanging land for peace is capitulation to terrorism. That’s chiefly because I think that Palestinians have as legitimate a claim to Palestine as we Jews do Israel. Likewise, I think the Southern Lebanese have a legitimate claim to the Golan Shebaa Farms.