Eric Caplan
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by Rabbi Jeffrey Schein, Senior Education Consultant and Co-Director For several years my 8th graders at the Heilicher Jewish Day School in Minneapolis would tease me. Rabbi Jeff are you a GJGDC? I would tease them right back saying “please remind me what is a GjGDC?” They would then answer with the mantra from our…
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by Sarah Brammer-Shlay One of the aspects of Reconstructionist Judaism that drew me into this movement was the way its vision centers on trusting the Jewish people, our people. Mordecai Kaplan stated, “There are dead cultures or civilizations. What renders them alive is an indigenous leadership which actively relates the culture or civilization to the…
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by Sue Penn, Director of Innovation Responsive Reading after Avodah: We Cannot Merely Pray We cannot merely pray to God to end war; For the world was made in such a way That we must find our own path of peace Within ourselves and with our neighbor. We cannot merely pray to…
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First, I want to thank everyone for coming today – especially the many of you who traveled across the country on a moment’s notice. It is a true testament to how loved our dad was and it is such an incredible comfort to our family as we cope with this unimaginable tragedy. To state the…