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Les Bronstein - Welcoming the Stranger
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
When people would ask me to describe our congregation, I used to boast to them about the joyous seriousness of our davening; the dedication and intensity of our lehrhaus-style adult learning; the courage of our social action undertakings; and the pride our people take in being a reasonably successful experiment in creating Jewish sacred peoplehood.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/creating-culture-welcome
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:20pm
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Human Why Do You Sleep artwork explanation
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Heart of the Stranger Artwork - explanation
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Sheila Book Ad Page
For more information about Love the Stranger, or to buy it, see below.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/more-about-book
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 1:24pm
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A Stranger in Two Communities
Perhaps, for some people, the decision to convert to Judaism comes in a Road-to-Damascus moment (to mix religious metaphors)—all of a sudden, you know that you want to be a Jew. That was not what happened in my life.
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 12:23pm
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When Family Are Strangers (Gail Shuster-Bouskila)
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
My late brother was the “stranger” in my life. We were born on the same day two years apart but were so vastly different. It isn’t just the end of his life which sets us apart, it was his personality and the way he lived that made him a conundrum to me. He held responsible jobs for most of his life in spite of constantly fighting depression. Medication was helpful until it wasn’t and had to be adjusted. Those periods were fraught with anxiety and tension for him as well as for me and our family.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/when-family-are-strangers
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:59pm
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Being the Stranger (Doris Dyen)
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/being-stranger
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:54pm
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Welcoming the Stranger (Brian Field)
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
In 1997 the Colorado Jewish Federation undertook a demographic study of the Denver-Boulder Jewish population. It discovered an affiliation rate of around 30%. In other words, a majority of Jews were, in effect, strangers in our own community.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/including-stranger
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:39pm
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Psalm 27 Interpretation
לְדָוִ֨ד ׀ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ אוֹרִ֣י וְ֭יִשְׁעִי מִמִּ֣י אִירָ֑א יְהוָ֥ה מָֽעוֹז־חַ֝יַּ֗י מִמִּ֥י אֶפְחָֽד׃
Awareness is sunlight in the mind. No one can take that from me. Awareness is my life’s stronghold. It absorbs all fear.
בִּקְרֹ֤ב עָלַ֨י ׀ מְרֵעִים֮ לֶאֱכֹ֪ל אֶת־בְּשָׂ֫רִ֥י צָרַ֣י וְאֹיְבַ֣י לִ֑י הֵ֖מָּה כָשְׁל֣וּ וְנָפָֽלוּ׃
The hindrances and defilements are as close as my flesh and mind, but they dissolve in the light of being known.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/psalm-27
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 12:21am
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Strange Thoughts: A New Take on Loving the Stranger
When newspaper style guides started adopting “they ” and “their” as singular, gender-neutral pronouns a friend told me, “I get why this should be done. It is the right thing to do. But it is going to be really hard for me to switch. It is not going to just roll off my tongue.” His words reminded me of someone who was on a rabbi search committee who was interviewing female rabbis for the first time, who confided, “I know I should give these women a fair shake, but it is not how I grew up. When I close my eyes and picture a rabbi, I see a beard and hear a man’s voice.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/strange-thoughts-new-take-loving-stranger
Posted on: 2017/08/16 - 3:43pm
