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'Listen To Her Voice: Women of the Hebrew Bible' by Mili Raver.
'Modern Dreamwork: New Tools for Decoding Your Soul's Wisdom' Llewellyn Worldwide Publishers
'The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary' by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Editor in Chief HarperOne 2015
Anthologies of Jewish poetry like Voices Within the Ark and Telling and Remembering
Article: Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism
Being Mortal - Dr. Atul Gawande ?Go Wish: A
Bodyheartandsoul.net
Book recommendations: 'Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory' by Elizabeth Rosner And for a very different perspective - 'The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past' by Julie Lindahl
Contact presenters for their Community Safety Needs template.
Denisehandlarski.com
Ehyeh by Arthur Green
elevationproject.com with Rav Doniel Katz
elsebyrangavrieli.com/
Finding aid: http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365459 Vita-Brevis posts: https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/author/crussell/ Digital Archive: http://digitalcollections.americanancestors.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15869coll25
For follow up on the dynamic interaction between biblical stories/ and on the Bible's incisive rendering of complex family relations/ see my book/ Subversive Sequels in the Bible: How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other.
For Information about her classes and more about Mussar in Boston contact her at RabbiPlumb@mishkantefila.org
Go Wish: A Tool for End-of-Life Care Conversations”
Golem!: Danger/ Deliverance and Art (Emily Bilski) Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid (Moshe Idel) The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction (Elizabeth Baer)
hebrewcollege.academia.edu/RachelAdelman
http://blogs.israel.com/author/danny-siegel/
http://www.hevrakadisha.org/
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/shut-the-concentration-camps-down/
https://jewishjournal.com/culture/lifestyle/first_person/303678/ny-artist-re-genders-the-torah-while-keeping-tradition/
https://jwa.org/stories
https://thebaisyaakovproject.com/
https://www.2lifecommunities.org/why-2life/live-well
https://www.boxingoverbroadway.com/my-brother-the-boxer-by-len-abram/
https://www.brandeis.edu/cmjs/noteworthy/jcc.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moritz-daniel-oppenheim
https://www.leveninstitute.com/shake-your-soul
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-torch/filling-the-missing-half-of-the-sacred-bookshelf/
https://www.sallygrazishatzkes.com/mywork
https://www.theglobalday.org/
Jewish Climate Action Network to get engaged and activated: JewishClimate.org
NatashaShabat.com
newenglandjewishlabor.org
nextcity.org/daily/entry/taking-steps-toward-a-community-controlled-economy-in-boston
Participants will receive a copy of the songbook 'Songs of My Father's' along with a link to my Adon Olam webpage which provides additional resources.
Principles of Harm Reduction: https://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/ Jews Work to Stem Opioid Abuse Crisis: https://www.jewishexponent.com/2019/08/05/safehouse-safe-injection-site-philadelphia/
Resources for further exploration of American Jewish music can be found on JacksonMercer.com
Shai Afsai. “Benjamin Franklin’s Influence on Mussar Thought and Practice: a Chronicle of Misapprehension” The Review of Rabbinic Judaism 22:2 (2019) pp. 228-276.
Subversive Sequels in the Bible How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other
The Invention of Jewish Theocracy coming in February 2020 from Oxford University Press
Thejewishexperience.org
thescribe.info
www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/temple-at-jerusalem/what-the-temple-mount-floor-looked-like/
www.cameraoncampus.org
www.dannysiegel.com/ blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/danny-siegel/
www.jewishclimate.org
www.lindayaelschiller.com
www.mainesynagogue.org
www.mbrlc.org www.namimass.org www.namiboston.org www.warmline.org www.openingdoorstothearts.org https://www.jfcsboston.org/Our-Services/CHAI-Services/Jewish-Life
www.moderndreamwork.com
www.nealgold.net
www.ros-schwartz.com
www.RuthNemzoff.com
www.sallygrazishatzkes.com/mywork
www.shirhamakom.org
www.storiesalive.com jb@storiesalive.com
www.suffrage100ma.org
You can read some of Rabbi Weiss' teachings on her website: rabbioraweiss.com.
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Sunday
, November 17
100 Centre - Room A
2:00pm •
Anti-Semitism: Origins and Today
3:10pm •
When I Was Small: Original Jewish Songs and Stories
100 Centre Street - Room B
2:00pm •
A Chasidic Perspective & Practical Applications for 2019
G- KI Chapel
9:00am •
Russian Discussion - First Two Chapters of Genesis
10:10am •
Echo Chambers Instead of Conversation: It Starts in the Bible
2:00pm •
Oh My God! Theology in Israeli Women's Midrash
3:10pm •
Participatory Play Reading About the "Birds' Heads Hagaddah"
4:20pm •
Gems of Jewish Poetry
G-06
9:00am •
Witness Theater: Bringing Holocaust Survivors Back to High School
10:10am •
So You Fell Asleep in Services - Do You Still Count For a Minyan? Uncovering Authentic Jewish Values
12:50pm •
Choose Life: Healing the Climate Can Happen
2:00pm •
Israel Activism: How to Take Effective Action and Get Results
3:10pm •
Dance and Exercise to Israeli Music
4:20pm •
Out of the Shadows: Spirituality and Mental Health
G-07
9:00am •
Jewish Tradition and Immigration Justice: Do Not Oppress the Stranger
10:10am •
Whose House is it? House of Aharon and House of Miryam
2:00pm •
Jewish Exploration of the Power of Words
3:10pm •
Giant Sea Creatures and Where To Find Them
4:20pm •
The Jewish Road to Character: The Study and Practice of Mussar as a Jewish Spiritual Path for Our Times
G-11
9:00am •
Arguments, Penalties, and the Still Small Voice
10:10am •
Joseph in the Torah and Qu'ran
12:50pm •
Jews and the Labor Movement - What's Work Got to Do With It?
2:00pm •
Go Wish - A Card Game for the Home Stretch
3:10pm •
Lilith: Recovery of an Ancient Israelite Demoness
G-16
9:00am •
Thoreau's Secret and the Language of the Jews: A Midrash on Walden
10:10am •
Enough with Small Talk, Let's Get to Big Talk
2:00pm •
Grandparenting in the Age of Diversity
3:10pm •
Flip the Script: The Truth About Intermarriage
4:20pm •
Do Not Stand Idly By: Harm Reduction is Jewish
G-19
9:00am •
The Contributions of Women-Driven Biblical Study in North American Jewish Adult Education
10:10am •
The Jews Arrive in Newton
2:00pm •
When God Speaks in 'Black English' to Moshe Rabbenu
3:10pm •
Keeping Traditions after a Community Disperses
4:20pm •
Solve the Climate Crisis! A Beloved Little Saying Holds the Breakthrough We Need.
G-25
9:00am •
From Silence to Speech: Mussar on Shticka/Silence
10:10am •
The Powers That Bind: Women in the Family Circle
2:00pm •
Speak, Memory: Creating Jewish Women's Oral History
3:10pm •
The Conversation: Why it is Important
4:20pm •
Sarah Schenirer to Sara Hurwitz: The Evolution of Jewish Women's Education
G-27
9:00am •
As If Your Life Depended On It: Moving People and Institutions Towards a Post Fossil Fuel Era
10:10am •
From the Rib, Which Elohin Took From Eve, She Made a Man: A Regendering Torah Experience
2:00pm •
Legacy-What Will They Say About You When You Are Gone? A Hearing Men's Voices Experience
G-28
9:00am •
Jewish Sex Ethics, or Sex with Judaism
10:10am •
Benjamin Franklin's Influence on Jewish Thought and Practice
2:00pm •
Community Safety Strategies for Jewish Communities
3:10pm •
Experiencing the 13 Attributes of God
4:20pm •
The Temple Mount Floors
G-31
9:00am •
And God Buried Moses: Stories of Jewish Burial
10:10am •
2020 Women's Vote Centennial - Why Did It Take 72 Years to Get the Vote?!
3:10pm •
The Kabbalistic Tree of Life
G-Ground Floor Lobby
3:10pm •
Welcome Blanket
G-Preschool Lobby
9:00am •
Silent Auction
10:10am •
Silent Auction
12:50pm •
Silent Auction
2:00pm •
Silent Auction
3:10pm •
Silent Auction
Lounge Outside U-Mishkan Tefila Sanctuary
12:50pm •
Limmud for All - Join the Fun!
M-04
9:00am •
Massive Conversions of Christians to Judaism in Latin America
10:10am •
Shattered Stars / Healing Hearts: One Family's Journey through Courage, Compassion, and Kindness
3:10pm •
Building a Movement for Justice for All: Challenging Anti-Semitism & White Nationalism
4:20pm •
The Endangered Daughter: Bat Yiftah in Bible and Midrash
M-08a
9:00am •
Dreaming Our Way Back to the Garden
10:10am •
Shake Your Soul- An Invitation to Movement and Joy
12:50pm •
Building a Solidarity Economy: Tackling the Racial Wealth Gap
2:00pm •
Writing What We Believe for Those We Love: Ethical Wills for the 21st Century
3:10pm •
Jewish Stars in the Ring
4:20pm •
The Other in the Contemporary Russian Jewish-Immigrant Narrative
M-08b
9:00am •
The Golem's Shadow: Elemental Wonder
10:10am •
The First Jewish Painter Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
12:50pm •
Shira Lishma - Contemporary American Jewish Music
2:00pm •
The Shaping of the New Jew
3:10pm •
Immigration Stories from Boston's Port
4:20pm •
Why Did the Jews Leave Soviet Russia 100 Years Ago?
M-KI Sanctuary
9:00am •
Everything Has Changed. Why Haven't We?
11:20am •
Celebration Gathering
3:10pm •
Is Gender Inequality a Biblical Mandate?
4:20pm •
Jewish Masculinity Before and After the Zionist Project
U-13
9:00am •
Jews, Zionism and Justice in an Age of Ethnocentrism
10:10am •
In Our Voices
12:50pm •
Jewish Tales - Live!
2:00pm •
Bibliodrama: Integrating Theater with Torah
3:10pm •
Physics Class, Social Justice, and Tikkun Olam
4:20pm •
Mental Health is for Everyone! And What Do You Know About This Silent Killer?
U-Mishkan Tefila Sanctuary
9:00am •
Psalmology: Moving our Prayers
10:10am •
If Prayers Could Sing! Finding the Music in Prayer.
1:10pm •
Orthodox Mincha Pickup Service
1:30pm •
Egalitarian Mincha Pickup Service
2:00pm •
Songs of Renewal: The Meshing of Liturgical and Secular Melodies to Lift the Soul
3:10pm •
RSJ Community Performers – Music by Masters
4:20pm •
Tekiah: Waking My Soul From A Deep Slumber
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'Listen To Her Voice: Women of the Hebrew Bible' by Mili Raver.
'Modern Dreamwork: New Tools for Decoding Your Soul's Wisdom' Llewellyn Worldwide Publishers
'The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary' by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Editor in Chief HarperOne 2015
Anthologies of Jewish poetry like Voices Within the Ark and Telling and Remembering
Article: Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism
Being Mortal - Dr. Atul Gawande ?Go Wish: A
Bodyheartandsoul.net
Book recommendations: 'Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory' by Elizabeth Rosner And for a very different perspective - 'The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past' by Julie Lindahl
Contact presenters for their Community Safety Needs template.
Denisehandlarski.com
Ehyeh by Arthur Green
elevationproject.com with Rav Doniel Katz
elsebyrangavrieli.com/
Finding aid: http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365459 Vita-Brevis posts: https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/author/crussell/ Digital Archive: http://digitalcollections.americanancestors.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15869coll25
For follow up on the dynamic interaction between biblical stories/ and on the Bible's incisive rendering of complex family relations/ see my book/ Subversive Sequels in the Bible: How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other.
For Information about her classes and more about Mussar in Boston contact her at RabbiPlumb@mishkantefila.org
Go Wish: A Tool for End-of-Life Care Conversations”
Golem!: Danger/ Deliverance and Art (Emily Bilski) Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid (Moshe Idel) The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction (Elizabeth Baer)
hebrewcollege.academia.edu/RachelAdelman
http://blogs.israel.com/author/danny-siegel/
http://www.hevrakadisha.org/
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/shut-the-concentration-camps-down/
https://jewishjournal.com/culture/lifestyle/first_person/303678/ny-artist-re-genders-the-torah-while-keeping-tradition/
https://jwa.org/stories
https://thebaisyaakovproject.com/
https://www.2lifecommunities.org/why-2life/live-well
https://www.boxingoverbroadway.com/my-brother-the-boxer-by-len-abram/
https://www.brandeis.edu/cmjs/noteworthy/jcc.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moritz-daniel-oppenheim
https://www.leveninstitute.com/shake-your-soul
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-torch/filling-the-missing-half-of-the-sacred-bookshelf/
https://www.sallygrazishatzkes.com/mywork
https://www.theglobalday.org/
Jewish Climate Action Network to get engaged and activated: JewishClimate.org
NatashaShabat.com
newenglandjewishlabor.org
nextcity.org/daily/entry/taking-steps-toward-a-community-controlled-economy-in-boston
Participants will receive a copy of the songbook 'Songs of My Father's' along with a link to my Adon Olam webpage which provides additional resources.
Principles of Harm Reduction: https://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/ Jews Work to Stem Opioid Abuse Crisis: https://www.jewishexponent.com/2019/08/05/safehouse-safe-injection-site-philadelphia/
Resources for further exploration of American Jewish music can be found on JacksonMercer.com
Shai Afsai. “Benjamin Franklin’s Influence on Mussar Thought and Practice: a Chronicle of Misapprehension” The Review of Rabbinic Judaism 22:2 (2019) pp. 228-276.
Subversive Sequels in the Bible How Biblical Stories Mine and Undermine Each Other
The Invention of Jewish Theocracy coming in February 2020 from Oxford University Press
Thejewishexperience.org
thescribe.info
www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/temple-at-jerusalem/what-the-temple-mount-floor-looked-like/
www.cameraoncampus.org
www.dannysiegel.com/ blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/danny-siegel/
www.jewishclimate.org
www.lindayaelschiller.com
www.mainesynagogue.org
www.mbrlc.org www.namimass.org www.namiboston.org www.warmline.org www.openingdoorstothearts.org https://www.jfcsboston.org/Our-Services/CHAI-Services/Jewish-Life
www.moderndreamwork.com
www.nealgold.net
www.ros-schwartz.com
www.RuthNemzoff.com
www.sallygrazishatzkes.com/mywork
www.shirhamakom.org
www.storiesalive.com jb@storiesalive.com
www.suffrage100ma.org
You can read some of Rabbi Weiss' teachings on her website: rabbioraweiss.com.
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