The business of spirituality
Jonah Lowenfeld
September 14, 2011
When Eric J. Diamond wants to understand something, he’s very methodical in how he goes about it.
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Letters to the Editor: Paid Op/Ed, Spirituality, Pessimism, New Leaf, Circumcision
Jewish Journal
July 6, 2011
Paul Jeser did the right thing in buying an ad in The Jewish Journal (“I am the Guy who has Been Sending the Mails Calling for a new Editor-in-Chief”, July 1)
Remember the victims, hate their killers
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
December 4, 2008
What blow against Western decadence were they striking by targeting a Chabad house, whose entire purpose it is to spread spirituality to people whose lives lack it?
A spiritual boost in Simi
Sue Fishkoff
March 28, 2008
Three-dozen rabbis and cantors are sitting in silent meditation in a sun-filled room at the Brandeis-Bardin Campus at American Jewish University in Simi Valley.
They open their eyes and Rabbi Sheila Weinberg guides them in a mindfulness exercise.
Maybe it’s not so weird, after all
Rob Eshman
December 7, 2007
The first time I visited the Kabbalah Centre, I thought it was weird. The congregants all wore white; the man on the bimah called out letters of the Hebrew alphabet (\”Alef to bet to taph!\”); the letters themselves were displayed in massive typeface on posters around the sanctuary.
TV: Suze Orman isn’t all about the money — she has a spiritual side, too
Elissa Strauss
November 2, 2007
Despite the fact that Orman has not been associated with Judaism in any traditional sense for decades, this search for purpose continues to inform her work. She says she is still a spiritually inquisitive person and that she has never stopped contemplating the concept of God.
Color me spiritual
Amy Klein
October 5, 2007
It\’s another bright sunny day in Encino, but Deborah Gordon manages to almost outshine the sun. In her hot pink and purple ensemble — from ankle-length skirt to long-sleeved blouse topped by a fuchsia hat — this rebbetzin wasn\’t kidding when she said she was all about colors.
A Gift Ignored
William Goldstein
September 21, 2007
The Master of the Universe has given us a gift that can connect us to the spiritual world, the one that exists beyond our physical reality. That gift is music, yet, sadly, most synagogues ignore the spiritual power of highly organized art music, the form many refer to as \”classical music.\”
What will your rabbi be talking about?
Jane Ulman
September 14, 2007
In sermons on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur throughout Southern California this year, rabbis will continue to exhort their congregants to look inward and outward, to reflect upon and repair themselves, their families and communities, the nation and the world.
Chart a new course with these spiritual guides for the New Year
Sandee Brawarsky
September 14, 2007
As we think about rewriting our personal narratives in the New Year, adding new pages and chapters, several new books inspire new visions, renewed creativity and new relationships between the calendar and a sense of holiness.
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