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Agnon puts ‘awe’ in services with inspiring anthology

Rabbi Daniel Bouskila September 14, 2007

I am not sure how your rabbi would react if you sat in the pews reading T.S. Eliot or William Faulkner, but if you were found poring over the pages of 1966 Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon\’s \”Days of Awe,\” originally published in Hebrew as \”Yamim Noraim,\” I trust most rabbis would happily approve. So would Agnon. In his introduction, Agnon states that he created this book so that one may read it \”between prayers,\” as a way of intensifying one\’s spiritual experience during the High Holy Days.

Music and religion reflect singer’s commitment to God

Danielle Berrin August 24, 2007

Talking with Dana Mase is like listening to her sing. Her gentle voice calms, even soothes, and you find yourself compelled to listen as she recounts experiences of her troubled childhood and her passionate faith.\n

Not By Bread Alone

Rabbi Karen Deitsch August 3, 2007

The milchama with lechem stops when we can eat it proportionately and spiritually. When we enjoy our fill — rather than demonizing, avoiding or sinfully binging on it — we are redeemed. By the mouth of God, bread was created, as was light, as were we, in His image. Our purest source of nourishment is Divine love, manifest in our capacity to lift up the vital force in all foods through our own utterances of gratitude.

Books: Reimagining the future of the Jewish People

Amy Klein July 13, 2007

\”Now, once again, a group of gifted scholars gather to reinterpret the Jewish project, to reassert its meaning, re-envision its institutions and reimagine its future,\” asserts the introduction of the new book: \”Jews and Judaism in the 21st Century: Human Responsibility, the Presence of God and the Future of the Covenant,\” edited by Valley Beth Shalom\’s (VBS) Rabbi Edward Feinstein (Jewish Lights Publishing, $24.99).

A physician examines his profession’s blind spots

Zackary Sholem Berger May 18, 2007

Interview with Jerome Groopman, a physician and clinical scientist at Harvard University, a specialist in AIDS and cancer. He\’s also a writer for The New Yorker, with a successful and thought-provoking series of books on such topics as the intersection of spirituality and medicine and the importance of a physician\’s intuition.

Fiery holiday lights up Lag B’Omer spirit

Amy Klein May 11, 2007

Lag B\’Omer, literally the 33rd day of the counting of the Omer — the period between Passover and Shavuot — is a relatively minor Jewish holiday that in recent years has become more popular among spiritually seeking Jews. It marks the day that the plague that killed 24,000 of Rabbi Akiva\’s students ended; it also marks the anniversary of the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who some think wrote the primary Kabbalistic text, the Zohar. The holiday has always been observed by the Orthodox, and in Israel, it\’s celebrated nationally and is a school holiday, but these days, some non-Orthodox synagogues, Jewish youth and singles groups and others have also taken to the beach to build fires, sing and revel in the fun.

Hybrid Jews

David Suissa May 4, 2007

Have you heard of these new hybrid cars that combine the traditional engine with an electric one? Well, this is the equivalent phenomenon — hybrid Jews — Jews who embrace a new tradition, but keep a connection to their old one.

Lawyer makes case for answering rabbinical school call

Peter L. Rothholz April 27, 2007

And yet despite these avocations, the 40-something Kenneth Klee said he felt there was something missing in his life. He\’s now studying for his smicha, or ordination, as a rabbi, which he intends to compliment his sideline as a spiritual counselor.

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