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Anita Diamant • Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew
With its dedicated volunteer culture, focus on inspiring traditional davening, high-level Torah study, and egalitarian, universal outlook, Kehilat Hadar attempts to live out a world of Empowered Judaism.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
The world was made—gorgeous, tender, broken, dangerous—we know not why. —Reverend Victoria Safford
Sharon Brous • The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
Every seven days the Shabbat summons up the memory of liberation; the ritual and liturgy proclaim freedom for everyone.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
we have the privilege/responsibility to ask not just how we can serve as human beings in general, but also how we can serve as human beings in particular.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Mediated by the models of their culture, the Torah’s prohibitions become inscrutable decrees. Human dignity and human partnership are far more central in the rabbinic tradition.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
sacred companionship.
Sharon Brous • The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
We cultivate the practice of responding to ourselves and others with compassion and kindness.
Rabbi Levy • Journey Through the Wilderness: A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer
Rabbis ensured that the core truths of revelation would not be forever trapped in the specifics of ancient laws developed for an ancient people.