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February 4, 2020

Joy in the Rabbinate

sid.schwarz Articles Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, Beth Israel, Clergy Leadership Incubator, Finding a Spiritual Home, Kenissa: Communities of Meaning Network, PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, Rabbinate, René Cassin Fellowship Program, RRC, Vocation

There is a delicious irony in being asked to write the lead article for an issue devoted to “Joy in the Rabbinate” as I mark 40 years since being ordained. I say that because if one were to read the essay that accompanied my application to RRC in 1975 it could well have been titled […]

November 30, 2017

It is Called “Covenantal Community”

sid.schwarz Articles communal thickness, covenantal community, Finding a Spiritual Home, Jewish Megatrends, social capital, synagogues

We should appreciate David Cygielman for introducing the broad eJP audience to the notion of communal “thickness” in his 11/13/17 post. As was noted in the response by Rabbi Michael Holzman, this is not a new concept. Well before the David Brooks’ column in the New York Times, sociologists have sought ways to measure the […]