Margie Jacobs
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Mishnah by Mordecai Kaplan. Gemara by Rabbi Michael M. Cohen, Rabbi Barbara Penzner, Rabbi Gail Shuster-Bouskila, Dr. Nadav S. Berman.
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Over the past year, The Kaplan Center has:
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Preparation for the High Holidays with Drs. Eric Caplan and Mel Scult, Rabbi Marc Margolius, and Elizabeth Caplun, moderated by Rabbi Les Bronstein Dr. Eric Caplan, Vice President and Academic Advisor of the Kaplan Center, is an associate professor of contemporary Judaism and Jewish education at McGill University. He is currently assembling an anthology of…
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Jerusalem Post Opinion Summer 2023 By Ilan Chaim ‘Man is not free to choose between having or not having ideals, but he is free to choose between different kinds of ideals….” – Erich Fromm In this summer of noisily clashing ideologies in the background, a group of rabbis met quietly in Jerusalem to honor the…
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For those wanting to grasp “what all the excitement was about” when Judaism As A Civilization appeared, Creative Judaism was a quick and easy way into the discussion.
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What We Mean By Religion focuses less on God as “the Power that makes for salvation…” than on a humanistic extraction of key ideas from each of the Jewish holidays.
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From Ira, I learned that Judaism is not an abstract idea, that religion does not exist in a vacuum, that religion is as religion does. Judaism begins with the Jewish people; religion is a human, social reality, one in which “Belonging precedes Believing” If we want to help Jews love and practice their heritage, we…