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Seeger, Zalman, Yarrow, Charlie King, Shefa -- New CD!!

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:26:21 -0400

WHEN SHOFAR MEETS FLUTE, PETE SEEGER MEETS THEM BOTH, DEBBIE FRIEDMAN & SHEFA GOLD JOIN THE CHORUS –

What could bring Pete Seeger, Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi on shofar dancing with Paul Horn on flute, Peter Yarrow, Debbie Friedman, Linda Hirschhorn, Shefa Gold, Reggie & Kim Harris, David Shneyer, Aryeh Hirschfield – we could go on and on -- all to the same "place"?

An extraordinary brand-new CD, that's what, produced by The Shalom Center!

New Curriculum & Ceremony for Teens on Climate Crisis : ELIJAH'S COVENANT BETWEEN THE GENERATIONS

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:49:53 -0400

The Shalom Center has published a curriculum and ceremony for Bar/ Bat Mitzvah and confirmation-age youth and families, on how the younger and older generations can work together to heal the earth from the dangers of global climate crisis. Below you will find testimonials about it from leaders of Jewish education and action. Below that you will find a coupon for ordering copies of the 60-page "Elijah's Covenant Between The Generations," and below that the Introduction by Rabbis Arthur Waskow and Jeff Sultar.

"Elijah's Covenant" [Brit Eliyahu] looks like an exciting and creative educational venture. Congratulations to the Shalom Center for this positive contribution toward raising environmental awareness among Jewish young people."

Earth & Torah: Rabbi Waskow's books on Eco-Judaism

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:08:04 -0400

Many of Rabbi Arthur Waskow's books deal with the teachings of Judaism about healing and celebrating the earth.

All are available from The Shalom Center:

Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life. How Judaism has dealt with these everyday issues and their relationship to the earth through all the changing eras of Jewish history. $11.00

Seasons of Our Joy. The festivals seen as a spiritual journey through the year, drawing on the dance of sun, moon, and earth that is encoded in them. $18.00

Trees, Earth, & Torah: A Tu B'Shvat Anthology. Anthology of what Judaism has said about trees and the celebration of their rebirth, from the Garden of Eden through rabbinic teachings through the Kabbalah through Zionism through modern eco-Jewish teachings. $22.00

New learning, New feeling, New celebrating

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:59:37 -0400

Are you exploring how to renew your thoughts, your feelings, your spirit -- your life? Then check out these books from The Shalom Center:

Have you and your brother, or your sister, been having problems with each other? Want to learn how two brothers-in-conflict became deep friends?

Then order the book Becoming Brothers by Howard Waskow & Arthur Waskow from The Shalom Center. Just $7.95 + pstg & handling (see below).

Want to understand the history and the spiritual meaning of those Jewish life-cycle ceremonies you attend, feeling puzzled all the time? Want to shape a ceremony of your own to celebrate a major change in your own life?

Before there was a Before

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:09:53 -0500

BEFORE THERE WAS A BEFORE
By Arthur Waskow, David Waskow, & Shoshana Waskow

[Copyright © 1984 by the authors. All rights reserved. These stories of the Creation were originally written in 1974, when David Waskow was ten and Shoshana Waskow was seven. They were published in 1984.

[To get a copy of this book, see the note at the bottom of this excerpt. The note at the end also includes comments on the book by Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, and Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People.

[What follows is the introduction to this midrashic story of the Creation. It is followed by each of the Seven Days of Creation. – AW]

Shalom Center Books

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:55:01 -0500

The movement for "Jewish renewal" has both learned from and created a number of books that The Shalom Center makes available through its Website, in association with Powell's Books.

You can navigate through the sections below to find books by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of the Shalom Center, and other authors associated with the Jewish revewal movement.

The Jewish-renewal current of thought and action originated in the intertwining of four strands of Jewish rethinking in the 1960s and 1970s, followed by two approaches that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. Below, we place a number of the books in these patterns, and then suggest some other categories for seeking nourishment in thought about Jewish renewal.

Books by Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:03:42 -0400

Books by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of the Shalom Center.

The Emergence of Havurot

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:40:13 -0500

The emergence of havurot and similar forms of Jewish community -- hands-on, participatory, intimate, and deeply engaged in the progressive political energies of the period from 1967 to 1975.

Neo-Hassidism

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:27:21 -0500

Works of Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Shlomo Carlebach, and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Gender Equality

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:35:06 -0500

The emergence not only of a movement for equality of women and men in existing Jewish life but more deeply for their equality in shaping what Judaism is to become, including the insights of feminist Judaism.

Reconstructionism

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:26:06 -0500

To a much lesser extent, the impact of some Reconstructionist and what might be called "secular-spiritual" ideas.

Eco-Judaism

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:24:41 -0500

The insights of a spiritually-rooted caring for the endangered web of life on this planet, leading to a conscious eco-Judaism.

Meditation

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:49:09 -0500

The knowledge and practice of forms of meditation used in Eastern spiritual traditions, and the rediscovery of meditative traditions in Judaism.

Prayer and Life-cycle

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:59:02 -0500

At the heart of Jewish renewal and of many newer approaches to tikkun olam is an understanding of Jewish history as a series of encounters with God, once again renewed in our generation after the crisis of the Holocaust and the seeming triumph of Modernity in both its creative and destructive aspects. For that reason, there have been serious efforts to rethink the nature and content of prayer so as to infuse it with tikkun olam as understood in our generation.

Study of Torah

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:34:47 -0500

New energy has been brought to the study of Torah both through newtranslations of Biblical, Rabbinic, Kabbalistic, and Hassidic texts andin new midrashic approaches.