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Articles and Speeches by Rabbi Sid

Rabbi Sid on Jewish Identity

The Israel-Diaspora Gap, Up Close
Appeared in The New York Jewish Week, May 31, 2011

Jewish Values in The Contemporary World
Appeared in The Huffington Post, Octoberr 28, 2010

Jewish Social Entrepreneurship and its Discontents
Appeared in JTA, December 30, 2009

Exodus and Sinai: New Thoughts on Jewish Identity
Appeared in Sh'ma, October 2005

Hold the Eulogy, Jewish Renaissance on the Rise
Appeared in Conservative Judaism, Spring 2004

Ancient Wisdom for the Jewish Future
Appeared in Washington Jewish Week, June 6, 2002

Can We Talk?
Appeared in Moment magazine, June, 2002

Educating the Children of Prophets
Appeared in Jewish Education News, 2000.

Teens and Tikkun Olam
Appeared in Moment Magazine, Dec. 1999

Rabbi Sid on Social Justice

Social Justice Movements: The Good They Do (Through The Stories They Tell)
This response to Jay Michaelson's article Appeared in Zeek: Winter 2010

Food Fight: A Kol Nidre Call for Sustainable Consumption
Appeared in the Huffington Post, Sept. 23, 2010

Human Rights Central to Message of Hanukkah
Appeared in the Washington Post, Dec. 20, 2008

Can Social Justice Save the American Jewish Soul?
Appeared in Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2008

The Privilege Gap
Appeared in Tikkun, Vol. 19, No. 5, Sept/Oct 2004

Judaism and Justice
Appeared in The Reconstructionist, Fall 2003

Exploring Religion, Social Justice and the Common Good
Appeared in The Reconstructionist, Vol. 65, No. 1, Fall, 2000

From Healing to Justice
Appeared in The Reconstructionist, Spring, 1995

Rabbi Sid on Service Learning

Finding Faith - Doing Service in Haiti
Appeared in Washington Jewish Week, February 16, 2011 andThe Huffington Post, February 19, 2011

Tzedek and Chesed: Re-Thinking The Relationship Between Advocacy and Service
Appeared in eJewish Philanthropy Blog, November 7, 2010 and Zeek: Winter 2010

Youth and Public Service
Appeared in Washington Post, May 7, 2009

Jewish Civics: A Field Emerges
Appeared in Sh'ma, March 2006

Renewing Jewish Life through Jewish Civics
Appeared in Journal of Jewish Communal Service, June, 2000

Moral Development and Tikkun Olam
Appeared in Jewish Education News, 1999.

Rabbi Sid on Zionism and the State of Israel

Rights of Israeli Arabs: Why Jews Should Care PDF
Appeared in The Washington Jewish Week, January11, 2012 and reprinted in JTA, January 13, 2012

Israel's Legitimacy: A Prophetic StrategyPDF
Appeared in The Jewish Week, February 1, 2011

Israeli Arabs: A Challenge to Israel's DemocracyPDF
Appeared in The Washington Post's "On Faith", January 12, 2011

Israel Wrestling PDF
Appeared in The Huffington Post, May 19, 2010

Opinion: This Is Zionism?
Appeared in New York Jewish Week, June 2, 2009

We are Family: Reflections on Israel in Crisis
Yom Kippur Sermon, 2002
Appeared in Living Words V: A Source Book for Israel in a Time of Struggle, Jewish Family Life Books, 2003.

Between Conscience and Solidarity
Appeared in condensed form in the Forward, June 6, 2002

The Road to Peace is Filled With Stones
Appeared in Washington Jewish Week, May 17, 2001

Rabbi Sid on Synagogues, Rabbis & Spirituality

The Torah We Know, The Torah Jews Want -Video
Keynote presentation, 4th Annual Alliance for Continuing Rabbinic Education Conference, UJA Federation of New York, November 2, 2011

Are Synagogues Still Relevant?
Appeared in The New York Jewish Week, March 15, 2011

A Sacred Moment
Appeared in The New York Jewish Week, November 18, 2010 (Also appeared in The Washington Post's "On Faith")

Abraham's "Return": New Thoughts on the Binding of Isaac
Appeared in The Forward, September 10, 2010

Back to Shul: Innovate To Beat the Synagogue Slump
Appeared in The Forward, September 18, 2009

Synagogues that Work
Appeared in Jewish Education News, Winter, 2002

The Rabbi As Spiritual Leader
Appeared in The Reconstructionist, Fall 1999

Saving Our Synagogues From Within
Appeared in The Jewish Week, May 19, 2000

Synagogues for a New Era
Appeared in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, October, 2000

Some Call it God
Appeared in The Reconstructionist, Spring 1994

Origins of Man and God: A Midrash on Genesis 1:27
Appeared in Judaism: A Quarterly Jourmal of Jewish Life and Thought, Fall 1979

Rabbi Sid on Interfaith Relations

Hanukkah and Interfaith Dialogue: Increasing the Light pdf file of John Stewart: We Need More than Amplification
Appeared simultaneously in the Huffington Post and The Washington Post's "On Faith", December 5, 2010

"Religion, Social Justice and the Common Good"
Opening Plenary for Clergy Beyond Borders Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2009

E Pluribus Unum Project: Inaugural Keynote Address 1997

Other items of interest by or about Rabbi Sid...

Success and Succession pdf file of John Stewart: We Need More than Amplification
Appeared in Sh'ma, January 2011

Jon Stewart: We Need More than Amplification pdf file of John Stewart: We Need More than Amplification
Appeared simultaneously in the Huffington Post and The Washington Post's "On Faith", November 2010

PANIM Honors Schwarz As He Passes Torch
Appeared in Washington Jewish Week, June 16, 2009

'It's been a great run' - PANIM Founder Sid Schwarz Set to Move On
Appeared in Washington Jewish Week, Nov. 20, 2008

The Mountain and the Sea
Appeared in Washington Jewish Week, Mar. 2, 2006

Covenant Award Acceptance Speech
Philadelphia, PA, November 21, 2002

Sidney Schwarz: Politics and Religion
By Mitchell Bard, Appeared in Lifestyles Magazine, Spring 2000