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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
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She Said No!
Based on Chapter 1 of the Book of Esther
Without her gown, He summoned her down
Said it was his right, As a man with a crown
He was obsessed; She should be undressed
Vashti refused to be, a woman oppressed.CHORUS:
She said “no” to the king,
She said “no” to the king,
She said “no-no-no-no-no-no-no”
She said “no” to the king!https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/music/she-said-no
Posted on: 2016/04/15 - 1:47pm
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Israel Dialogue
Note: This symposium took place in the summer of 2015, and reflects conversations and events at that time.
Welcome to the Jewish Reconstructionist communities’ conversation on Israel and Zionism; this site is now our home for tackling important topics and deepening our relationships with Jewish life and community.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dialogue/israel
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 2:24pm
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Cutting Edge Judaism Dialogue
Cutting Edge Judaism: A Dialogue
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dialogue/cutting-edge-judaism
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 5:33pm
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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 2007Some 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
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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
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Raising Future Decision Makers - SCR community learning
Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized expert in the field of moral education and has written extensively on that topic. In this recording of a community teaching call, he discusses raising ethical children of character and share ten keys to leading your children to ethical choices in everyday life:
CHILDREN OF CHARACTER: Leading Your Children to Ethical Choices in Everyday Life
Posted on: 2016/07/01 - 12:25pm
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Nancy F-K Tazria Metzora Dvar Torah
Last week there appeared in my mailbox at RRC, a book that I had never heard of by someone who was also unknown to me. The book is called The Plausible God: Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology. The author, Mitchell Silver, is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, and a devout secular Jew. His book was occasioned by a growing realization that all of his good philosophical arguments against religion were really arguments against traditional theism, the “old God” as he calls Him. And I use the word “Him” advisedly here.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/why-do-we-pray-dvar-torah-tazriametzora
Posted on: 2016/08/22 - 2:31am
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Elsie Stern Shavuot 2012 Audio Teaching
Note: the following is a verbatim transcript for accessibility to the hearing-impaired. It has not been edited for general publication.
Posted on: 2016/08/22 - 3:02am
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Jacob Staub KI Talk on Reconstructionism
In this talk given at Congregation Kehillat Israel in Pacific Palisades, California, Rabbi Jacob Staub explores what makes Reconstructionist communities unique. Selected quotes follow. The entire call transcript is available at the bottom of this page.
Posted on: 2016/10/28 - 1:11am