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Resources This page offers recordings of presentations that have been given at various CBH events. The "listen" option will play the program in your browser; the "download" option will download a compressed zip file onto your computer that you can unzip and play on an mp3 player or your phone. June 5, 2010: Congregant and Senior Rabbinical student Ariann Weitzman discusses the way the Conservative and Orthodox movements have responded to women's demands for equivalent leadership opportunities - how their communal structure affects their responses to the halakhic permissibility or non-permissibility of women serving as leaders and as rabbis. She also discusses whether or not their difficulties over these issues affect the way Reconstructionists confront similar issues (and how in fact all the movements are reconstructionist, they just don't know it). (56 minutes) Listen | Download May 22, 2010: Ariann Weitzman unpacks several selections from the Talmud from Tractate Berachot dealing with exemptions and obligations of women. There is also a companion text availble. (61 minutes) Listen | Download May 16, 2010: Isaac Lauria, Director of Communications for J Street, described as a "pro-Israel, pro-peace" organization, discusses the need for an open conversation about how to help Israel to achieve a lasting peace. (75 minutes) Listen | Download In addition, Rabbi Amy and Isaac spoke afterward and made a video recording of their conversation. May 15, 2010: Congregant and Rabbinical Student Ariann Weitzman discusses how the Book of Ruth, though one of the most beautiful books in the Bible, it can be read as a subversive text that tries to undermine some of the basic presumptions of the Torah. (73 minutes) Listen | Download May 8, 2010: Congregant and Rabbinical Student Ariann Weitzman discusses the background of the Omer and the particular significance of studying Pirke Avot during this period." (64 minutes) Listen | Download April 24, 2010: Rabbi Lenny Levin discuss Heschel and Reconstructionism. (65 minutes) Listen | Download April 9, 2010: Congregant and Holocaust educator Michael Rubell discusses the complex issues and feelings surrounding mandated holocaust education, and related issues." (50 minutes) Listen | Download Feb 28th, 2010: Judaism and Christianity - Essential Differences; Rabbi Amy answers many of the questions Jews have about Christianity. (60 minutes) Listen | Download February 2010: Mysteries of the Book of Esther - Rabbi Amy discusses the farcical elements of the Book of Esther. (60 minutes) Listen | Download January 24, 2010: Rabbi Amy discusses the customs, traditions, midrash and superstitions surrounding our Jewish names. (60 minutes) Listen | Download January 16, 2010: Congregants Ken Chan and Rick Pincus, Who Wrote the Bible: A Brief History of the Documentary Hypothesis - Part 2: Southern Kingdom and Exile: authors D P and R. (64 minutes) Listen | Download January 9, 2010: Congregants Ken Chan and Rick Pincus, Who Wrote the Bible: A Brief History of the Documentary Hypothesis - Part 1: The World that produced the Torah up to 722 BC; the destruction of the Northern Kingdom – authors J and E. (53 minutes) Listen | Download January 3, 2010: Rabbi Amy discusses jealousy and envy through the lens of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. (69 minutes) Listen | Download December 19, 2009: Congregant and Rabbinical Student Ariann Weitzman teaches about some of the commentary written on one of the most enigmatic, and problematic, stories of the Bible - The Binding of Isaac: What Was Abraham thinking?. (78 minutes) Listen | Download November 2009: Workshop on Religious Freedom in Israel. Rabbi Amy lead a discussion on 'What it means for Israel to be both a Democratic State and a Jewish Nation: values in conflict.' Many of the participants found the discussion enlightening, engaging, and both troubling and hopeful. The one point of agreement was that there was not enough time to delve into all the informational materials pertinent to the conversation and it was requested that the background materials be posted on the CBH website: November 2009: Michael Magiril - Congregant and Family Law Attorney and mediator Michael Magiril presents highlights from the book You Don't have to be Wrong for me to be Right and discusses collaborative problem solving. (72 minutes) Listen | Download November 2009: Elaine Nissen & Debra Gill - Attorney and Mediator Elaine Nissen and Psychologist Debra Gill discuss modern approaches to divorce, helping couples to tune down the contentiousness and tune up cooperation – in order to de-traumatize their families. Rabbi Amy discusses how these approaches relate to Jewish thinking, about divorce.. (70 minutes) Listen | Download November 2009: Rabbi Amy on Rabbi Meir (see the previous talk by Michelle Cameron). (85 minutes) Listen | Download October 2009: Michelle Cameron, author of The Fruit of her Hands, discusses her work. Based on the life of the author's thirteenth-century ancestor, Meir Ben Baruch of Rothenberg, a renowned Jewish scholar of medieval Europe, this is the richly dramatic fictional story of Rabbi Meir's wife, Shira, a devout but rebellious woman who preserves her religious traditions as she and her family witness the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. (55 minutes) Listen | Download October 2009: Ruby Reimer, congregant and former college instructor, draws from the work of Hannah Arendt, Carl Jaspers and others to explore concepts of evil that have developed in the wake of the holocaust. (56 minutes) Listen | Download October 2009: Micha Kurz, director of Breaking the Silence and Grassroots Jerusalem, discusses his experiences serving his country in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and explains his efforts to help disrupted lives at the grassroots level. (72 minutes) Listen | Download |
Audio & Video Resources Here is a variety of video programs on the web related to Reconstructionism. How are Reconstruction congregations different? A video made by Rabbis Jacob Staub and Dan Ehrenkrantz for new JRF affiliate Kol Haneshamah, Sarasota, FL Heart, Mind, Spirit This is a series of audio presentations on the JRF web site offering an introduction to Reconstructionism, Kaplan, G~D through a Recon lens, and more RRC & Kaplan: Rabbi Richard Hirsh Tghis is a youtube recording on the RRC channel where Rabbi Hirsh remembers the death of Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, on the 25th anniversary Reconstructionist Torah Blessings The rabbi of Ner Shalom in CA chants the Reconstructionist version of the Torah blessings Rabbi David Hartman Talks About Mordecai Kaplan This was recorded at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem Rabbi Brant Rosen on Covenental Communities He is the rabbi at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston IL Jonathan Sarna Reading from Kaplan's Diary SAJ: Rabbi Michael Strassfeld Rabbi Strassfeld discusses the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, founde by Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan An Interview With Rabbi Emanuel Goldsmith Rabbi Goldsmith is a professor of Jewish Studies at Queens College and the rabbi of Congregation M'Vakshe Derekh |
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