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	Jewish Renewal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This Jewish Renewal movement casts Kabbalistic and Hasidic theory and practice within a non-Orthodox, egalitarian framework.
		Jewish Renewal, in its most general sense, has its origins in the North American Jewish counter-cultural trends of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
		Critics of Jewish Renewal claim that the movement emphasizes individual spiritual experience and subjective opinion over communal norms and Jewish textual literacy; the above-mentioned formalization of the ALEPH rabbinic program may be a response to such criticism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Renewal (1074 words)

	Velveteen Rabbi: Defining Renewal
		I've heard Renewal described as "feminist neo-Hasidism," and there's some truth to that; we draw both on feminism's social and political shifts, and on the mystical, joyful passion of the Hasidic world.
		Renewal is an attitude, not a denomination; adherents of Renewal come from all of the branches of Judaism.
		Renewal is a grassroots, transdenominational approach to Judaism which seeks to revitalize Judaism by drawing on the immanence-consciousness of feminism, the joy of Hasidism, the informed do-it-yourself spirit of the havurah movement, and the accumulated wisdom of centuries of tradition.
	velveteenrabbi.blogs.com /blog/2005/09/defining_renewa.html (1145 words)

	Vegetarianism: Essential for Jewish Renewal?
		Jewish renewal means a return to Jewish traditions in a process Rabbi Arthur Waskow has called "Godwrestling," struggling with the Torah and Jewish traditions to find deeper meanings.
		Jewish vegetarians in particular are constantly wrestling with a tradition that, on the one hand, has been centered on animal sacrifices and the eating of meat on festivals, but that, on the other hand, contains strong indications that vegetarianism is at the heart of Jewish tradition.
		Some of the greatest Jewish sages have taught that permission to eat meat was given later only as a grudging concession to people's weakness, and that many prohibitions and restrictions were applied to keep alive a sense of reverence for life.
	www.jewishveg.com /schwartz/jewish-renewel.html (1172 words)

	Aquarius Metaphysical Newspaper /Jewish Renewal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Many of these Jewish seekers are now returning “home,” finding in the Jewish Renewal movement that which they were unaware existed in Judaism, a bridge between traditional Judaism and the mysticism and spiritual depth for which they search.
		Actually these practices are nothing new in Judaism, but are ancient beliefs, long “hidden.” Jewish Renewal has renewed these practices and made them accessible, stressing our oneness with God, social justice, gender and sexual equality, and ecology and planetary transformation.
		Jewish Renewal is based on the teachings of Rabbis Zalman Schachte - Shalomi and Shlomo Carlebach, both trained in the Lubavitch Chassidic movement, which is derived from mystical Jewish teachings.
	www.aquarius-atlanta.com /july02/renew1.shtml (429 words)

	Information on Jewish Renewal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jewish Renewal is neither a denomination nor a movement.
		Jewish Renewal tends to be inclusive, universal, innovative, iconoclastic and oriented toward social change.
		As a Renewal Rabbinical student, I was not only invited, but expected to seek out meaningful spiritual practices from other faiths, to learn about them and, where appropriate, to dress them in Jewish garb and use them in teaching and personal practice.
	www.orshalomsf.org /JRenewal.html (227 words)

	What is Jewish Renewal
		Jewish renewal is a worldwide, transdenominational movement grounded in Judaism’s prophetic and mystical traditions.
		Jewish renewal seeks to bring creativity, relevance, joy, and an all embracing awareness to spiritual practice, as a path to healing our hearts and finding balance and wholeness—tikkun halev.
		Jewish renewal helps to heal the world by promoting justice, freedom, responsibility, caring for all life and the earth that sustains all life —tikkun olam.
	www.aleph.org /renewal.html (104 words)

	Community Literature:Jewish Renewal: An Evolving Form of Worship in Uncertain Times by Jason Berger, PhD
		In temples and synogogues throughout the nation, Jewish Renewal beliefs are providing the guiding light to achieve "Tikun Li," or "Repairing Us/Me." Jewish Renewal places greater emphasis on emotional and physical healing, in a way that compares to Christianity's more zealous forms of healing services.
		Jewish Renewal is a colorful tapestry of matching, contrasting, clashing, and original threads representing Judaism’s diverse history and denominations.
		Although this article opened by suggesting that Jewish Renewal emphasizes small worship groups, it would be inaccurate to suggest that somehow the spirit and fervor of Jewish Renewal would be diminished in a larger group.
	kmareka.com /jewishrenew.htm (3015 words)

	Renewal — A Jewish Magazine, an Interfaith Movement
		It is a kind of neo-Hasidism, in that it seeks the spiritual renewal of Judaism, but "neo" because it insists on full equality for women and a creative return to the process of transforming Hallakhah (Jewish law) so that it continues to be a living path to connection to God.
		Jewish Renewal energy is flowing through all the various denominations of Jewish life - and it will eventually help to transform all of them.
		But if you are interested in Jewish Renewal, we want to encourage you to become part of the TIKKUN community, because it is in TIKKUN that we try to provide the space for both the theological and the political discussions that provide the foundation for a spiritual renewal of the Jewish people.
	www.tikkun.org /tikkun/rabbi_lerner/renewal (714 words)

	RENEWAL
		Jewish Meditation is a profound spiritual path that is embedded in the history of Judaism.
		Jewish Renewal is a movement that was created in the 1960’s from Kabbalah, Chassidism, Feminism, Environmentalism, scientific discovery and Eastern spirituality.
		Jewish Renewal is open to all Jews with all varieties of Jewish belief who have an interest in the Jewish Renewal Philosophy.
	home.vtown.com.au /ftropp (191 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . Jewish Renewal . September 30, 2005 \| PBS
		The Jewish Renewal movement is not widely known, but it is having an impact, as Kim Lawton reports.
		Renewal has also attracted many disaffected Jews, especially those who were exploring Eastern religions.
		Renewal is also providing a spiritual home for people like Judy Barokas, who was raised Orthodox but says she wants to stay on the secular side of Judaism.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week905/feature.html (1202 words)

	Or Shalom - Vancouver Jewish Renewal
		The ceremony, like all other Jewish ceremonial activities, is to be approached with planning, consciousness, clear intent and the use of ritual and symbols that reflect a deep spiritual understanding.
		But Jewish law has also instructed us that Jews who do commit suicide are not to be buried in a Jewish cemetery or, if they are, in a separate section of the cemetery.
		Equality and parity before Jewish law and custom must also, I believe, pertain to the continuing holiness of their sexual relationship and to a mutually agreed upon framework for or the dissolving of a same-sex union.
	www.orshalom.ca /hillel-samesex.html (4628 words)

	Or Shalom - Vancouver Jewish Renewal
		Many felt themselves to be somewhere in the middle: sympathetic and supportive of the principle of Jewish same-sex weddings while expressing the need for more time to look more deeply into the issue from multiple perspectives.
		These perspectives included a close consideration of traditional Jewish sources as well as of the lived reality of Jewish gays and lesbians and the pain and isolation that so many of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters have felt by their exclusion from Jewish communal and spiritual life.
		We learned that the Jewish tradition sees sexual relationships to be appropriate primarily within the context of marriage; and, conversely, that a major purpose of marriage was to provide a framework for positive sexual relationships.
	www.orshalom.ca /samesex.html (1213 words)

	What is Jewish Renewal?
		Jewish renewal is non-denominational (sometimes referred to as trans- or post-denominational) Judaism.
		Because of its emphasis on direct spiritual experience and mystical or Kabbalistic teachings, Jewish renewal is sometimes referred to as Neo-Hasidic or Four Worlds Judaism (a reference to the "four worlds" of Jewish mysticism).
		Jewish Renewal is sometimes referred to as "New Age" by people who do not know that meditation, dance, chant, and mysticism have been present in Judaism throughout the ages and not, as some mistakenly believe, patched on to Judaism from other cultures or made up out of whole cloth.
	www.bnaior.org /faq.html (377 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Jewish Renewal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, the author spells out new directions for Judaism emphasizing love, compassion, and justice.
		That is also why Jewish renewal involves the fashioning of new rituals, prayers, and practices for the faithful.
		Although Michael Lerner's vision of a path of renewal for Judaism is controversial, it demands a hearing.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/bookreview/item_7041.html (214 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this impassioned, profound manifesto, he taps the roots of Jewish tradition through a close reading of the Torah, Talmud and Old Testament, seeking to reclaim the progressive impulse in Judaism which holds that nothing is inevitable about evil or social injustice.
		He then outlines a plan for Jewish renewal that combines commitment to family, community and tradition with a "revolutionary conception" of a compassionate God who makes freedom possible and who can assist in the task.
		While creative, his thinking is not cohesive, and he remarks that the "Jewish Renewal movement is in its toddler stage." Intended for Jewish readers of all backgrounds and levels of knowledge, this book will have primary appeal to those who already hold left-wing social and political views.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060976756?v=glance (1588 words)

	Jewish Renewal at Kibbutz Lotan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From the kosher dining hall to the celebration of all Jewish holidays as a community, we easily incorporate religion into all segments of kibbutz life.
		Every weekday meals are prepared, catering not only to the demands of Jewish law, but also to the preferences of 1/3 or so of the residents for vegetarian food.
		It's a wonder to witness how the older children run their own social lives and are free to play with one another in the afternoons without being dependent on their parents for transportation.
	www.birdingisrael.com /KibbutzLotan/values/JewishRenewal.htm (2555 words)

	B'nai Or and the Jewish Renewal Movement
		The old B'nai Or was much more orthodox than the Jewish Renewal movement of today (which grew out of B'nai Or.) It was closer to what is now called Traditional Judaism (or Conservadox), except that it had a much more mystical bent to it.
		Reb Zalman once told me that he envisioned it as a repository of Chassidic knowledge that would preserve and renew the Jewish spirituality that was destroyed in the Holocaust -- similar to the way that the Essenes retreated to the wilderness to preserve their knowledge from being lost under persecution of the Romans.
		But somewhere along the line, in the transition from B'nai Or to Jewish Renewal, the lab experiments became the davening itself, which was just too strange for me. And a lot was lost in the process, I think.
	www.pinenet.com /~rooster/bnai.html (2884 words)

	Executive Summary: 1999-2003
		Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square, Edited by Alan Mittleman, Jonathan D. Sarna and Robert Licht (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002) is an encyclopedic treatment of public square activity conducted by both the civil and religious agencies of the organized Jewish community.
		Jewish Polity and American Civil Society is an extremely timely review of historic Jewish community agencies as well as of the social policies practiced by the major “denominations” of Jewish observance.
		The Jewish public is especially reticent to endorse prayer in schools or school vouchers, but almost half (48 percent) supports a moment of silence for voluntary prayer and 56 percent support the teaching of Christmas carols as long as Hanukkah songs are also taught.
	www.cjcs.net /execsum.htm (10113 words)

	MyJewishBooks.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rabbi Firestone, a colleague of Rabbi Zalman Schecter-Shalomi, is now a leader in the Jewish Renewal movement, and serves the Jewish communities of Boulder Colorado and the Intermountain area.
		From the experiences of early childhood, to the spiritual awakening of a secular adolescent encountering Jewish tradition, to the alternately funny and searing tales of new-found independence, early married life, young motherhood, and midlife, Feld comments with remarkable honesty and clarity on the many stages of spiritual and artistic exploration and growth.
		The author of the highly popular and widely quoted Jewish Way in Death and Mourning and Jewish Way in Love and Marriage now offers a work designed expressly for non-Jews who are contemplating converting, for those who have already converted, and for Jews by birth who wish to gain insight into their heritage.
	members.aol.com /sefersfari/renew.html (2843 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Jewish Renewal. (book reviews) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Michael Lerner, editor of the influential bimonthly U.S. Jewish magazine Tikkun, has provided a version of a Jewish "liberation theology" with his Jewish Renewal (Grosset/Putnam, 1994, 436 pages, $25.95).
		He also seeks to criticize the limitations of leftist politics for its inattention to a complex of issues that he has called 'the politics of meaning,' such as the spiritual and ethical needs of community and connection that go way beyond economic entitlements typically championed by the liberal left.
		He hopes to show how a renewed Jewish religious life can be a compelling model for other communities struggling to reclaim the voice of God in their traditions, in opposition to the all-too-human voices of cruelty that invariably accompany the divine voice.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:16731246&refid=ink_tptd_g1 (357 words)

	Jeffrey Marker - Jewish Renewal Rabbi/Teacher/Chaplain
		I have been active the movement for Jewish Renewal for over twenty-five years, active in communites in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Jerusalem, and the New York area.
		I was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in NYC in 1982(5742) after studies at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and Neve Schechter, the Hebrew University, and the Pardes Institute, all in Jerusalem, as well as JTS.
		I have also taught aspects of Jewish healing as well as Hassidic texts at national and regional retreats sponsored by the National Havurah Committee, as well as leading workshops at ALEPH Kallot(study retreats).
	www.echonyc.com /~rabjeff (979 words)

	Federation's Programs & Services: Jewish Renewal In Kiev
		After the physical and spiritual devastation dealt to the Jewish community by the Nazis and then the Communists, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's initiative in Kiev is dedicated to renewing Jewish communal life in a city with a Jewish population of over 90,000.
		In addition to the Jewish Houses, Federation is the proud supporter of Hillel, a group of students who celebrate holidays, learn, and engage in social action activities together.
		In 2003, Federation is also looking to support community wide festivals aimed at raising the profile of the Kiev Jewish community and showcasing the revitalized Jewish culture, as well as a number of training initiatives to secure a dynamic leadership for this community for many years to come.
	www.thisisfederation.org /programs/kiev.asp (230 words)

	V'aschanan: Jewish Renewal
		This does not necessarily have to mean something new about the person; rather, it means that the original feelings do not feel stale, but, on the contrary, feel fresh.
		In our daily prayers we say, “And in His (G-d’s) goodness He renews and perpetuates creation daily.” Besides this renewal being a practical aspect of creation (in physics this is known as quantum uncertainty), this is true metaphysically, as G-d’s love for the Jewish people is undiminished from our original “marriage” (at Sinai).
		Not only that, but He created the commandments with such a multitude of expression within them, that there is always newness within the performance.
	www.jbuff.com /d081000.htm (434 words)

	Jewish Renewal
		i think change and modernity are a problem across the jewish world - over here in the UK, at least, aleph and the renewal people are active more or less outside the official institutions, with occasional participation in the more ecumenical and broad-based initiatives, such as limmud.
		I tend not to have a problem with it as long as it isn't a complete substitute for standard Jewish practice.
		But if it helps people hold on to a Jewish identity for a little while, I guess it's not so bad.
	www.comparative-religion.com /forum/showthread.php?t=1558 (577 words)

	Jewish Renewal Community of Boulder:NEVEI KODESH
		Jewish Renewal Community of Boulder - Nevei Kodesh (Oasis of Holiness) is a warm and welcoming spiritual community for those seeking new ways of experiencing Judaism.
		Your children will enjoy participating in creative, fun, educational programs where they will make new friends and develop their Jewish knowledge and identity.Boulder, Colorado is nestled at the foot of the majestic Rocky Mountains, allowing opportunities for worship in spaces that are both beautiful and sacred.
		Nevei Kodesh (Jewish Renewal Community of Boulder) is a member of the Network of Jewish Renewal Communities and we are closely aligned with the Jewish spiritual renewal movement mission of ALEPH (Alliance for Jewish Renewal)
	www.neveikodesh.org (303 words)

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