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with Hadas Wolff-Yitzhak Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 2:30pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) After October 7, Beit Avi Chai launched Shir Tikva (Song of Hope), an online series that brings Israeli musicians together to share the songs that give them comfort in these difficult days. Music has the power to carry both melody and text…
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with Craig Dershowitz Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 2:30pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) Sometimes, the art you need is the art you embody. Scars can become too painful to see, and transformation must take place at the level of the body, not just the spirit. Healing Ink’s Craig Dershowitz will share with us the groundbreaking…
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with Rachel Korazim Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 2:30pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) The calamity of October 7 and the war that followed had left Israel and the Jewish world in shock and despair. The unimaginable became our reality. As more details of the horror unfold, as we are facing the painful daily losses in…
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with Sharon Ann Musher September 14, 2025 In 1922, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, first initiated the Bat Mitzvah as a rite-of-passage for Jewish girls. Characterized as a lifelong supporter of women’s rights, Kaplan’s family, including his wife and four daughters, played a role in shaping his ideas about women, Jewish law,…
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with Elyssa Moss Rabinowitz Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:30pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) We begin with Ecclesiastes, “For Everything There is a Season”: What Shall Be After. Using post-October 7th lenses, Elyssa Moss Rabinowitz from Kol HaOt Gallery in Jerusalem will explore the third chapter of this ancient text of contrasts through contemporary artistic…
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In this edition of the Contemporary Talmud Page, we begin with an affirmation of Kaplan that “Torah is lifelong moral education.” But is this always true? How might the idea of shlemut (spiritual wholeness), the inward Jewish peoplehood character of tikkun olam, and an appreciation of Shabbat challenge Kaplan’s own assertion that we must always be engaged…
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with Yovel recipients Rabbis Lee Friedlander and Arnold Rachlis May 4, 2025 Join us to hear eminent Rabbis who have attained Yovel status as they reflect on the ongoing and evolving threads of Kaplanian thought that have informed their careers. Rabbi Lee Friedlander is a native Philadelphian who was raised by secular Jewish parents and…
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Mel Scult, professor, scholar, husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather, was born May 28, 1934 in Paterson, New Jersey. It is quite amazing that Mordecai Kaplan’s Judaism as a Civilization appeared on that same day. Scult’s family were members of a Conservative synagogue, where as a teen, he participated in services and in synagogue activities, frequently serving…
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Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (June 11, 1881 – November 8, 1983) American rabbi and founder of Reconstructionism was born in Sventzian, Lithuania, the son of Rabbi Israel Kaplan and Chaya Nehama Kaplan. His father was a prominent Talmudic scholar who had received rabbinic ordination in Lithuania from the most outstanding rabbis of the day. The family…
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with Rabbis Michael Cohen and Fred Scherlinder DobbFebruary 9, 2025 Environmental activism from the personal to the communal: two extraordinary voices speak about Kaplan, their own tikkun olam, and how awareness of the fragility of the earth has shaped their actions, careers and voices. Rabbi Michael Cohen is a faculty member of the Arava Institute…