2 Sivan 5772
Parashat Bamidbar
46th day of the Omer
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Weekly Quote from
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan,
z"l (1881-1983)
The real problem that should concern us is not what "religious" truth to uphold as what to do with and for the Jews whose moral wellbeing depends upon the maintenance of the collective entity of the Jewish people.
From Communings of the Spirit, Vol. I, page 116, Friday, March 23, 1917; used with permission.
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Visit JRF's Kaplan Corner!
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Have you heard about the
Women's Torah? A truly
remarkable achievement, this is one of the most beautiful Torah scrolls
scribed in recent years. This particular scroll is made all the more
special because it was scribed solely by soferot—scribes
who are women.
The Women's Torah was in the Bay Area during February, with events ranging from Cotati to Palo Alto and from Stanford to Berkeley, with involvement by all four Bay Area Reconstructionist communities—Or Shalom in San Francisco, Ner Shalom in Cotati, Or Zarua in Berkeley, and Keddem.
Keddem hosted Shabbat Mincha and Havdalah services on Saturday, February 25. For more info on the Women's Torah Project in general, and the scroll's visit to the Bay Area, see the press release, this Web page from JRF, and the Women's Torah Project Facebook event.
The Women's Torah was commissioned by the Kadima Reconstructionist Jewish Community in Seattle, starting in 2000, with the writing itself beginning in 2004.
Join us at one of the several Bay Area events!
(Photo courtesy Bob Zimmerman.)
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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!
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.)
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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. |
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Keddem is located in Palo Alto,
California, the heart of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area.
We're but 30 miles from San Francisco and 17 miles from San
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