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1. Israel sermon - sid - limiting debate

   (This article appeared in the New York Jewish Week on February 2, 2014.)

   The current controversy brewing in the Hillel universe is only the latest example of a Jewish community polarized over how we can or can’t talk about Israel. The guidelines, developed by national Hillel in 2010, were designed to provide a basis upon which a local Hillel could prevent overtly anti-Israel groups from speaking under the Hillel banner.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/limiting-debate-israel-will-only-hurt-us

   Posted on: 2016/02/17 - 12:02pm

2. What's God Have to Do With It?

   A High Holiday Sermon delivered by by Rabbi Sid Schwarz at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, Bethesda, MD
   Yom Kippur 2007

   Some of you will remember the old Art Linkletter show. His signature piece on the show was his interviews with children which he later compiled in a book called Kids Say the Darndest Things. I thought of this when I recently picked up a book entitled, Children’s Letters to God. Here are a few excerpts:

   “Dear God:

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/whats-god-have-do-it

   Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:32am

3. Being Part of the Universe

   Let us begin by remembering that the spiritual always points toward the unity of things, not their division. Judaism tries to help us to work from a higher perspective. To celebrate the creation of the world, as we do on Rosh Hashanah, is to see ourselves as an integral part of all that is and not to see ourselves as the measure of all things. The egotistical, self-centered part of our mind, “the evil urge” if you will, always leads us to experience our separateness from the natural world.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/being-part-universe

   Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 12:54pm

4. Toba Spitzer on Process Theology

   Originally delivered on Yom Kippur 5770 at Congregation Dorshei Tzedek

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/changing-equation-reflection-god

   Posted on: 2016/11/29 - 1:32pm

5. For the Sake of the World: Toba Spitzer on peoplehood and mission

   Originally delivered at Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, Rosh Hashanah 5764

   Where do we first hear about Rosh Hashanah? In the Torah, in the book of Leviticus, we read:

   Adonai spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the Israelites, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be for you a day a rest, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of the shofar, a holy assembly. (23:23).

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/sake-world

   Posted on: 2016/11/29 - 1:38pm

6. Finding Holiness sermon

   This High Holiday sermon won the 2016 George Goldman-Or Hadash D'var Torah competition.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/finding-holiness-everyday-experience

   Posted on: 2017/01/13 - 12:13pm

7. Hagar: The Immigrant Worker

   Many, many years ago in a distant land a woman named Sarah was married to Abraham. Sarah was not able to bear children. She was distressed and often wondered how she could increase her standing in the community and keep the wealth she and her husband had acquired in their family, both of which depended on having children. One day she realized the answer was right there before her eyes in the form of her domestic help, the young immigrant woman from Egypt named Hagar. Sarah knew that Hagar needed the job at her house and would do whatever it took to keep it.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/hagar-immigrant-worker

   Posted on: 2017/08/15 - 4:06pm

8. Addressing Race as a Jewish Community

   Yom Kippur is a time when we confess our wrongdoings collectively, and is therefore an opportune moment in the Jewish calendar to reflect on how we can do teshuvah for the ways in which we have failed, communally and individually, to address the issue of racism.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/addressing-race-jewish-community

   Posted on: 2017/08/16 - 3:08pm

9. Hagar the Stranger

   Turn it and turn it, for everything is in it, Ben Bag Bag taught about studying the Torah. Reflect on it, pore over it, grow old and gray with it, for there is no better reward than this. Well, I’m not gray yet, but I sure am getting older, and bald already happened. And with age maybe I’m starting to repeat myself more, but I’ll tell you again: Ben Bag Bag, the ancient sage with the best alliterative name, was a wise man. The Torah continues to reveal its deep wisdom to me, and ever-greater connecting patterns of meaning unfold before me.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/hagar-stranger

   Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 3:38pm