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| Jan 2003 Highlights
Training
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|  Hayim
Herring :
Continuing
Education for Rabbis
Rabbis can lose their sense of calling over time and become engulfed
in the routine tasks of congregational life.
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| Benay
Lappe :
Educating
Rabbis to Be Traditional Radicals ... Once Again
We need to return to a vision of rabbinic education that sees itself
as a modern Jewish think tank so that Judaism remains a humane and
courageous tradition.
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| Dov
Linzer and Avi Weiss :
Creating
an Open Orthodox Rabbinate
Our students learn that religious growth comes not through dogmatism
but through questioning and struggle.
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| Mordecai
Finley :
Belonging
The renewal of Jewish life, of synagogue life, will not ultimately
be sustained by a series of institutional reforms of services, music,
architecture...
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| David
Golinkin :
The
Ideal Rabbi Today
The rabbinate and even the term rabbi have changed constantly
during the last two millennia. Rabbi Golinkin, President and Rector
of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shares
his thoughts about the ideal rabbi today.
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| Jacob
Staub :
Jewish
Spiritual Direction
Spiritual Direction does not presume prayer or ritual to be the
only, or preferred, mode of discerning God's presence.
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| From
the Sh'ma Archive
Six years ago, Sh'ma asked several heads of rabbinic seminaries
to outline their visions for rabbinic education. Several of these
rabbis, and others reflect on these visions in the pages of the
current issue of the journal. Here are the original reflections,
from 1997, written by Norman Cohen, Zevulun
Charlop, William Lebeau, Daniel
Gordis, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi,
Ronald Price, David
Teutsch, and Shohama Wiener.
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| Koret Foundation Sh'ma Book Reviews |
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| For
Sale: A New Source Book on the Jewish Ethics of Addressing Terrorism
This publication is designed to help individuals
and families use Jewish sources and resources to address the aftermath
of the terrorist attack in NY and Washington. The book asks: How
do we do fight terrorism and preserve our society's moral fiber?
How do we maintain our personal, communal and religious ethics and
sense of morality in the face of a needed war on terrorism? What
are the boundaries for addressing terrorism? What is the ethical
framework we employ? :
Jewish Ethics and Fighting Terrorism will include three distinct
sections:
1. Helping families and educators with strategies to address this
difficult terrain with their children.
2. Several High Holiday Sermons that offer words of wisdom, inspiration,
comfort, and insight into how an American Jewish community responds
to terrorism.
3. An expanded special issue of Sh'ma that addressed these questions
with essays from Rabbi Saul Berman, Director of Edah, a voice of
Modern Orthodoxy
Dr. Marc Gopin, author of Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future
of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking and Holy War, Holy
Peace
Dr. Reuven Firestone, Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam at
HUC-JIR in LA and author of Jihad: THe Origin of Holy War in Islam.
Dr. Dov Zakheim, Undersecretary of Defence, Controller
Dr. Vanessa Ochs, Professor of Religion, University of Virginia
Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, National Director of Inter-religious Affairs
at the American Jewish Committee, former Chief Rabbi of the American
Armed Services
Dr. Dawn Rose, former director of the Ethics Center at the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical School and Rabbi of Temple of Universal Judaism in NYC.
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, President of Jewish Life Network
Available February, 2002. $25.00 includes postage and handling.
To order, contact bookorders@JFLmedia.com.
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"Our religious leaders are able to
transmit the teachings of Torah and create community
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