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| October 2003 Highlights
Sh'ma is now accepting sermons for Living Words VI: Best
High Holiday Sermons of 5764. Send your drashot to: SBerrin@JFLmedia.com.
Deadline is December 1, 2003.
Consensus
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|  Doug
Kahn:
Does
Consensus Still Count?
:Consensus is the process seeking representation from
widely diverse viewpoints. It helps maintain civil debate on highly
emotional issues, and it is the product after reaching consensus
that reassures a broad cross-section of the community that their
concerns have been addressed.
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Marlene
Provizer:
The
Sound of One Hand Clapping
: Underlying the decline of consensus is a crucial, related question:
"Who speaks for the Jewish community?"
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| Brad Hirschfield:
Recovering
a Community of Ethical Controversy
: The challenge lies not in convincing people to see
matters uniformly but, rather, in looking at our own responses and
asking why we do not recognize the connections that, even if elusive
exist. Our task to know our Jewish boundaries and to take steps
to reach across those boundaries.
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Koret Foundation Sh'ma Book Reviews
Mark Oppenheimer, Knocking
on Heaven’s Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture.
Reviewed
by Stephen J. Whitfield .
(New Haven: Yale University Press): 273 pp., $30.00.
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Sale: Living Words V: A Source Book on Israel in a Time of Struggle
A timely resource for rabbis, educators, and families to  address
the crisis in Israel. Included are High Holiday sermons, new rituals
for celebrating Israel's Independence Day, Responsa on the Prayer
for the Peace of Israel, essays and resource materials to teach
Israel in synagogues and schools.:
Available now www.Jflbooks.com
Foreword by Yitz Greenberg bookorders@JFLmedia.com.
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| "Kaddish is a place to stand in the midst
of an earthquake ... Kaddish literature describes the
experience." Anne Brener, Doing Kaddish, Sh'ma September
2003
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