12 Sh'vat 5772
Parashat Yitro
Caveat on reading
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12 Sh'vat 5772 Parashat Yitro Caveat on reading |
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Weekly Quote from
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan,
z"l (1881-1983)
Judaism thus assigned to God an entirely different function from that which any other of the ancient peoples assigned to their deities. While the deities of the nations served to furnish the sanction to the moral and spiritual laws, they never were regarded as the sole organizing principles or factors of social groups... This new function which was assigned to the God of Israel was at the root of the strongly felt yet vaguely grasped truth that the God of Israel was unique. It was not his oneness that our fathers were first impressed by, but his uniqueness.
From Communings of the Spirit, Vol. I, page 60, Monday, March 10, 1913; 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 sifrei scribed in recent years. This particular scroll is made all the more special because it was scribed solely by soferet—scribes who are women.
The Women's Torah is coming to the Bay Area this month, 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 is hosting Shabbat Mincha and Havdalah services on Saturday, February 25, beginning at 5:30pm. For more information, see This Month at Keddem, 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!
The January Bagles, Lox, and Learning featured Tsvi Bar-David, on Sunday, January 15th (the third Sunday of the month). See our BLL page for more information.
We hope you joined us in the Multipurpose Room, Kehillah Jewish High School, 3900 Fabian Way, Palo Alto. Bagels and Lox at 10:00 am, talk from 10:30 to 12:00 noon. Contributions for food costs accepted (10% goes to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger).
Once again, Keddem is proud to be a sponsor of the annual Feast of Jewish Learning, Saturday evening, January 28, at the OFJCC in Palo Alto. Over two dozen classes will be offered, ranging from food to yoga, from ancient history to current events, from dancing to literature. Join us for an engaging evening.
More information is available here
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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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