4 Iyyar 5768 Parashat Emor 19th day of the Omer Candle lighting 7:48pm Caveat on reading

Weekly Quote from Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan
Men are not born free and equal, but are born to become free and equal. It is the goal of all social endeavor to bring about equality in the inequality into which men are born. It is the goal of spiritual endeavor to make man free.

From Communings of the Spirit, Vol. I, page 90, Saturday, April 3, 1915; used with permission.

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Keddem in the Press Read the article about our rabbi in J. the Jewish news weekly. Keddem Congregation is a community-led, Reconstructionist Jewish congregation, passionately committed to infusing tradition with new meaning. Keddem is based in Palo Alto, California, on the San Francisco Peninsula. Worship, study, community and governance at Keddem are based on the following principles—Keddem is: inclusive, egalitarian, participatory, questioning, and Reconstructionist.

Scholar in Residence Program

Keddem is very pleased to announce that Rabbi Richard Hirsh will visit Keddem as our first Beverly B. Fuchs Memorial Scholar in Residence. This very special weekend will include the opportunity to meet with, talk with, and listen to Rabbi Hirsh.

Please see this flyer for more information. Note that some events require reservations, and some do not; information on both sets and a form to register for those that require reservations is all in the flyer.

Visit our Tikkun Olam page!

Keddem's Tikkun Olam committee now has its own web page!

JRF's Kaplan Corner

Mordecai Kaplan's biographer, Dr. Mel Scult, has given us the opportunity to "look over his shoulder" as he works on his next volume of Communings of the Spirit, selections from Kaplan's prodigious diary. Every month, Dr. Scult will send JRF two or three journal entries for publication on the JRF web site. In addition, he is sending JRF audio recordings of conversations he had with Rabbi Kaplan in 1972; these, along with photos and more, will also be available online.

JRF has also created a listserv called "kaplan-corner"; its sole purpose is to inform subscribers that the site has been updated with new journal entries from Dr. Scult.

Check out JRF's Kaplan Corner!

Help Keddem While You Shop!

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Keddem's Email Lists

Keddem maintains four email lists for announcements and discussion: The Members List, the Interest List, the NewsWire List, and the Discussion List.

For a description of each list and information on how to join a list, update your email address, remove yourself from a list, or post to a list, click here. (As mentioned there, archives are available for all of these lists.)

Calendar of Events

This month's calendar of events and Next month's calendar of events are available on-line. (This month's online calendar was last changed on May 6, 2008).

We are one of over 100 congregations and havurot affiliated with the Reconstructionist movement. Liberal in outlook, yet respecting tradition, Reconstructionism is the newest of the four movements of organized American Judaism. To learn more, click here.