Rabbi Sid on Jewish Identity
Truth or Consequences (PDF and link)
Appeared in Jewish Peoplehood Papers, Fall 2013
Hold the Eulogy, Jewish Renaissance on the Rise (PDF)
Appeared in Conservative Judaism, Spring 2004
Educating the Children of Prophets (PDF)
Appeared in Jewish Education News, 2000
Teens and Tikkun Olam (PDF)
Appeared in Moment Magazine, Dec. 1999
Rabbi Sid on Social Justice
Judaism’s Moral Imperative to End Poverty
Appeared in Washington Post, December 20, 2014
Hanukkah and Human Rights
Appeared in Washington Post, December 20, 2008
A Rabbinic Call for Human Rights (PDF)
Appeared in New York Jewish Week, January 25, 2013
Faith and Service in Haiti (PDF)
Appeared in Washington Jewish Week, Feb. 17, 2011
Food Fight (PDF)
Appeared in Huffington Post, September 23, 2010
Can Social Justice Save the American Jewish Soul? (PDF)
Appeared in Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2008
The Privilege Gap (PDF)
Appeared in Tikkun, Vol. 19, No. 5, Sept/Oct 2004
Judaism and Justice (PDF)
Appeared in The Reconstructionist, Fall 2003
Rabbi Sid on Service Learning
Jews with a Mission
Appeared in The New York Jewish Week, January 20, 2015
Service: The Path Back In to Israel for Young Jews on Their Way Out
Appeared in eJewish Philanthropy, April 15, 2015
Tzedek and Chesed: Re-Thinking The Relationship Between Advocacy and Service (PDF)
Appeared in eJewish Philanthropy Blog, November 7, 2010 and Zeek: Winter 2010
Jewish Civics: A Field Emerges (PDF)
Appeared in Sh’ma, March 2006
Renewing Jewish Life through Jewish Civics (PDF)
Appeared in Journal of Jewish Communal Service, June, 2000
Rabbi Sid on Zionism and the State of Israel
Israel: A Season of Reckoning
Appeared in The New York Jewish Week, October 1, 2014
Can Zionism be the Answer? (PDF)
Appeared in The New York Jewish Week, June 3, 2014
Build Middle East Peace on Lessons From Abraham
Appeared on CNN.com, March 6, 2012
Israel’s Legitimacy (PDF)
Appeared in The New York Jewish Week, February 1, 2011
Israeli Arabs: A Challenge to Israel’s Democracy (PDF)
Appeared in The Washington Post’s “On Faith”, January 12, 2011
This is Zionism?
Appeared in The New York Jewish Week, June 3, 2009
Between Conscience and Solidarity (PDF)
Appeared in condensed form in the Forward, June 6, 2002
Rabbi Sid on Synagogues, Rabbis & Spirituality
From Synagogue Centers to Intentional Spiritual Communities (PDF)
Appeared in Reform Judaism, Strengthening Congregations: A Symposium, Winter 2015
Are Synagogues Still Relevant? (PDF)
Appeared in The Jewish Week, March 15, 2011
A Sacred Moment (PDF)
Appeared in New York Jewish Week, Dec. 3, 2010
Abraham’s “Return” and the Binding of Isaac (PDF)
Appeared in The Forward, September 10, 2010
Synagogues for a New Era (PDF)
Appeared in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, October, 2000
The Rabbi As Spiritual Leader (PDF)
Appeared in The Reconstructionist, Fall 1999
Some Call it God (PDF)
Appeared in The Reconstructionist, Spring 1994
Rabbi Sid on Interfaith Relations
Hanukkah and Interfaith Dialogue: Increasing the Light
Appeared simultaneously in the Huffington Post and The Washington Post’s “On Faith”, December 5, 2010
Other items of interest by or about Rabbi Sid…
Success and Succession (PDF)
Appeared in Sh’ma, January 2011
Covenant Award Acceptance Speech
Philadelphia, PA, November 21, 2002