How to Be a Truly Spiritual Jew*
(*and avoid the pitfalls of quick-fix religious consumerism)by Jeffrey K. SalkinFrom Reform Judaism, Fall 1995Reprinted with Permission.Everywhere you go in the Reform movement, the word on people's...
View ArticleNurturing the Spiritual Lives of Our Children
According to the March 2009 report, How Spiritual Are America’s Jew?, spirituality is one of the gateways into meaningful Jewish life, a gateway that the Jewish community has neglected. The authors of...
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Rekindling Tradition as Life Partnerships End
It is somewhat surprising that researchers have paid so little attention to how people experience divorce in congregations. Studies that do address the relationship between religion and divorce are...
View ArticleSynagogue Life Should Be Like Handwashing (not hand wringing!)
Rabbi Lawrence A. HoffmanParashat Ki Tissa, 2010read more
View ArticleA Passover Question That Keeps Us Up All Night
Parashat TzavRabbi Lawrence A. HoffmanWe can chart the last half century by the kinds of seder we have had. Fifty years ago, we celebrated an old-country model brought here by grandparents who davened...
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Jewels of Elul 5771
The Jewels of Elul is back with this year's theme, The Art of Beginning...Again.Twenty Nine inspired contributors will share a personal story, about how deal with change. It will include pieces by Noah...
View ArticleTikkun Olam: Jewish Sacred Repair, Secular Action or both?
In an attempt to address the well-documented and growing gulf between the economic fortunes of the rich and poor--and almost in tandem with the onset of the recession and the collapse of the housing...
View ArticleSo Near And Yet So Far
Passover 5771 may be past, but its lessons return in last week’s parashah (B’ha’alot’kha). Of all our holidays, Passover ranks supreme in that we were delivered from Egypt specifically with Passover in...
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