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Shira Stutman
Rabbi Shira Stutman serves as Director of Jewish Programming at Sixth & I in Washington, DC. Her focus is to make Jewish meaning and build Jewish community for young professionals. When not at Sixth & I, she serves as the scholar-in-residence for the National Women’s Philanthropy program at the Jewish Federations of North America. She is a member of the board of directors of Jews United for Justice and on the J Street rabbinic cabinet.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/profile/rabbi-shira-stutman
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 6:32pm
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Jill Jacobs
Rabbi Jill Jacobs is the Executive Director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. Her most recent book is Where Justice Dwells: A Hands-on Guide for Doing Social Justice in Your Jewish Community.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/profile/rabbi-jill-jacobs
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 6:36pm
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Aurora Mendelsohn
Aurora Mendelsohn lives in Toronto, Canada with her husband and their three children, and works in university administration.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/profile/aurora-mendelsohn
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 6:44pm
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Lewis Eron
Rabbi Lewis Eron retired in 2017 after 24 years working for the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey, most recently as the director of religious services at Lions Gate and as the Jewish community chaplain.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/profile/rabbi-lewis-eron
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:10am
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Eleh Ezakara - Sacrifice and Martyrdom
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is never an easy day. Fasting, however, is not the real problem. Rather, the day's challenge comes from its demand that we confront deep spiritual, theological, and philosophical issues we would often wish to avoid. We are asked to consider, for example: the tension between sin and forgiveness, the relationship between suffering and redemption, and the emergence of hope out of tragedy. The prayers and readings of Yom Kippur demand that we meditate on these themes as personal challenges, but present them to us in grand images on a mythic scale.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/eleh-ezakara-sacrifice-and-martyrdom
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:10am
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Ellen Dannin
Ellen Dannin, a thought leader on labor and privitization, has taught and written primarily about American and New Zealand labor and employment law. She also writes about privatization of government services and public infrastructure. Her most recent law school position was as the Fannie Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar and professor of law at Penn State Dickinson School of Law.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/profile/ellen-dannin
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:12am
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Our Akeidah, Our Binding
There is a thread running through all the Rosh haShanah portions, except one: that thread is fathers and children, mothers and children.
The Akedah is the sole exception.
Where are the mothers today?
This is an impressionistic reading of the Akedah.
It does not explain the text.
This is not the comfortable reading that, in praising our ancestor Abraham, gains credit for ourselves.
This is not the reading that shows we are a people who have long put aside idolatry and child sacrifice.
I have no comfort today, only questions.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/our-akeidah-our-binding
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:13am
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Michael Cohen
Rabbi Michael Cohen
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/profile/rabbi-michael-cohen
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:22am
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Sukkot: Yom Kippur's Counterbalance
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/sukkot-yom-kippurs-counterbalance
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:22am
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The Modern Meaning of Tisha b'Av
The Jewish Memorial Day, The Fast of the Ninth of the Jewish month of Av, Tisha b'Av, marks the end of a three week period of mourning during which our people remember the series of events that led to the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem and the destruction of our people's first Temple on that date in the year 586 BCE.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/modern-meaning-tisha-bav
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:25am
