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About the B’nai Mitzvah Revolution Pilot Cohort - B'nai Mitzvah Revolution
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B'nai Mitzvah Revolution. The next transformation in congregational education. BMR Theory of Change. BMR in the News. What You Can Do. About the B’nai Mitzvah Revolution Pilot Cohort. About the B’nai Mitzvah Revolution Pilot Cohort. More about the B’nai Mitzvah Revolution Pilot Cohort. Click a question to read more. Which congregations are part of the pilot cohort? Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, Beachwood, OH. Congregation Har Hashem, Boulder, CO. North Shore Congregation Israel, Glencoe, IL. Over the pa...
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The Rabbi's Column: Temple or Not Temple? September 2016
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Thursday, September 1, 2016. Temple or Not Temple? Outside of education, we can also look at the similarities and differences between (Jewish summer) camp and synagogue. Both are intentional Jewish communities, where a stated purpose is for participants to engage their own Judaism more deeply and to grow Jewishly. However, in some important aspects, camps are not only different from synagogues, but the complete opposite. Synagogues are bottom - up. Camps are encapsulated experiences. Jewish life is life-...
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The Rabbi's Column: February 2016
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Monday, February 1, 2016. Jewish Stories #4 - There’s No Place Like Home for a Treasure Hunt - February 2016. What is in the Judaism of which you dream? Travel as you will, but do not forget to come back - perhaps the real treasure is lying there waiting to be discovered in your (Temple) home. Rabbi Joel N. Abraham. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The texts on this site are those published in Temple Topics - the monthly bulletin of Temple Sholom of Scotch Plains/Fanwood, NJ. Rabbi Joel N. Abraham.
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The Rabbi's Column: September 2016
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Thursday, September 1, 2016. Temple or Not Temple? Outside of education, we can also look at the similarities and differences between (Jewish summer) camp and synagogue. Both are intentional Jewish communities, where a stated purpose is for participants to engage their own Judaism more deeply and to grow Jewishly. However, in some important aspects, camps are not only different from synagogues, but the complete opposite. Synagogues are bottom - up. Camps are encapsulated experiences. Jewish life is life-...
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The Rabbi's Column: Jewish Stories #7 - We're Not in Heaven, Either, So Let's Play Nice - Summer 2016
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Jewish Stories #7 - We're Not in Heaven, Either, So Let's Play Nice - Summer 2016. We think that we may have difficult or awkward Passover seders or Thanksgiving dinners - imagine how hard Ima Shalom (the wife of Eliezer and brother of Gamliel) had to work to live up to her name - “mother of peace” when her family came together. I’d like to go in the other direction. Http:/ civility.jewishpublicaffairs.org/resources/. Pursuers of peace, creating communities where. In that spirit (a...
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I Believe with an Imperfect Faith...: Why is creed only about God? A reaction to Milton Steinberg's Basic Judaism
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I Believe with an Imperfect Faith. Although we say that Judaism (and especially Reform Judaism) is about action and not creed (doing not believing) are there not some things that we believe in common - even if they are just beliefs about what we might believe and how we might act? Temple Sholom Believes (responses to YK morning sermon 5770). I believe in the sanctity of marriage! I believe that the Jews should have a home in Israel forever! Thursday, July 2, 2009. Why is creed only about God? For the pas...
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The Rabbi's Column: Jewish Stories #6 - Meeting at the Holy Spot in the Middle - April/May 2016
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Sunday, April 3, 2016. Jewish Stories #6 - Meeting at the Holy Spot in the Middle - April/May 2016. What is it about this congregation that is worth our love and our toil? Rabbi Joel N. Abraham. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The texts on this site are those published in Temple Topics - the monthly bulletin of Temple Sholom of Scotch Plains/Fanwood, NJ. For more information on the Temple, visit www.sholomnj.org. For more of Rabbi Abraham's writing, visit my blog. Rabbi Joel N. Abraham.
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I Believe with an Imperfect Faith...: "Creed" from Merriam-Webster On-Line
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I Believe with an Imperfect Faith. Although we say that Judaism (and especially Reform Judaism) is about action and not creed (doing not believing) are there not some things that we believe in common - even if they are just beliefs about what we might believe and how we might act? Temple Sholom Believes (responses to YK morning sermon 5770). I believe in the sanctity of marriage! I believe that the Jews should have a home in Israel forever! Thursday, July 2, 2009. Creed" from Merriam-Webster On-Line.
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The Rabbi's Column: December 2015
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015. Jewish Stories #3 - The Difference is the Silver. Rabbi’s Column - Dec/Jan 2015/6. The simple meaning of this story is that money (silver) can blind us to the needs of others. Possessions have a lure of their own, that leads us to see only what we have. For us, perhaps, there is a more complex lesson. What is the silver that blocks us from seeing others, instead causing us only to see our own reflection? For some, the silver is religion. Either their faith gives them pat an...
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The Rabbi's Column: Jewish Stories #4 - There’s No Place Like Home for a Treasure Hunt - February 2016
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Monday, February 1, 2016. Jewish Stories #4 - There’s No Place Like Home for a Treasure Hunt - February 2016. What is in the Judaism of which you dream? Travel as you will, but do not forget to come back - perhaps the real treasure is lying there waiting to be discovered in your (Temple) home. Rabbi Joel N. Abraham. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The texts on this site are those published in Temple Topics - the monthly bulletin of Temple Sholom of Scotch Plains/Fanwood, NJ. Rabbi Joel N. Abraham.
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