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 true Yoel Natan 2006-11-14T10:39:00-08:00 2006-11-14T18:57:50Z 2006-11-14T18:45:56Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-116352995681272280 The Hidden Promise of Generational Politics New from Mishkaneer: Creative multi-generational solutions are quite attainable. We tend not to attain them because we tend not to look for them in the first place. With the young-adult generations being relatively undetermined at present, with regard to organized Jewish community and what it's good for, yet eager to be challenged to leadership, I see a golden opportunity to propose the challenge false Maggid Sarah 2006-11-07T10:26:00-08:00 2006-11-08T15:28:03Z 2006-11-07T18:32:02Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-116292432272173763 The Intimate Dance of Devekut and Halacha B"H Welcome Rabbi Avram Davis to the Blogosphere, and in bright green, at that! In his inaugural article, Reb Avram has posted some beautiful, and juicy for thinking thoughts on the nature of Devekut and its relationship to Halachah. http://wisdomhearttorah.blogspot.com/ Check it out -- intimate to the greater conversation of being joyously jewish, joyously human, joyously divine. false Yoel Natan 2006-10-23T10:28:00-07:00 2006-10-23T21:11:38Z 2006-10-17T01:39:36Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-116104917621558944 Why Web 2.0 Is Good for the Jews The emergence of Web 2.0 as a (arguably the) widespread posture within the zeitgeist of Internet technology opens a world of potential for the future of Jewish community in North America -- especially with respect to the younger generations, now in their 20s and 30s, who have fled the conventional synagogue organizations en masse. Why? Web 2.0's central message is that the individual "average false Maggid Sarah 2006-10-17T14:05:00-07:00 2006-10-18T00:52:11Z 2006-10-17T21:07:14Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-116111923465753912 thoughts on training up maggidim B"H A friend and mentor maggid asked me to write up my thoughts on requirements for training maggidim. As it is relevant to the conversation of just what a maggid is, and how maggidut differs from rabbinics, I'm posting it here. Some editing has been done to protect issues of confidentiality. All comments false Yoel Natan 2006-10-16T13:03:00-07:00 2006-10-17T01:27:24Z 2006-10-16T22:39:01Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-116103834133815861 A Reminder of Why We're Here Jewish blogger David Kelsey has opened a plaintive yet articulate discussion that should serve to remind us of just how urgently we need to bring our people and institutions out of the malaise of consumerism. In "Fading Judaism" David describes, in frank autobiographical detail, how for "many Jews who don’t marry, particularly [baaley tshuvah], there is often a slide away from religiosity over false Yoel Natan 2006-10-13T12:05:00-07:00 2006-10-13T19:10:11Z 2006-10-13T19:10:11Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-116076661171423528 On Uniformity In Halakhah From a very interesting comment in a lengthy discussion of peoplehood unity as a direct goal in Jewish-legal ruling on Mah Rabu: Also in recent thought I have been struggling as to whether halachik constraints, which flow from this idea of uniformity, have normative value today. (note, value, not authority). As Rashi puts it “to prevent Israel from becoming groups and groups (agudot agudot) and false Maggid Sarah 2006-10-09T21:35:00-07:00 2006-10-10T04:38:35Z 2006-10-10T04:38:35Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-116045511520209526 Holonic? Holon (philosophy) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Holonic) In the philosophy of history, a holon is a historical event that makes other historical events inevitable. A holon is a controversial concept, in that some reject the inevitability of any historical event. A special category of holon is technology, the view that technology dictates history. In some versions of false Yoel Natan 2006-09-12T08:28:00-07:00 2006-09-12T15:45:30Z 2006-09-12T15:45:30Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-115807593031995486 Emergent Community Models My fellow Seattleite R' Dov Gartenberg, one of two Conservative-affiliated Seattle rabbis who has gone from conventional pulpit to independent community innovation in the past year, just attended S3K's "Working Group of Jewish Emerging Sacred Communities" conference in NYC. In response, he has written this piece on Emerging Sacred Communities, in which he contrasts his own Panim Hadashot against false Maggid Sarah 2006-09-05T22:24:00-07:00 2006-09-06T06:25:16Z 2006-09-06T06:22:28Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-115752374878171613 Happy Birthday Moshav HaAm B"H Next week marks the end of the first year since the Moshav was birthed into the Universe. We Officialy launched the Moshav erev Tisha B'Av, but prior to that, this project was quietly incubating in coffee houses up and down the West Coast. One year. So far we've aquired participants, held a maggidic summit, planned for another winter summit, set the beginnings of an agenda into motion, false Yoel Natan 2006-08-22T19:00:00-07:00 2006-08-23T02:07:56Z 2006-08-23T02:07:56Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-115629887664477019 The Taxonomy of Exile, Diaspora, and Jewish Community Organizations A new tributary has opened to the ongoing conversation between Moshav HaAm and Shawn Landres, in reference to my first attempt to articulate the Difference Between Diaspora and Exile. false Yoel Natan 2006-08-22T17:58:00-07:00 2006-08-23T02:09:42Z 2006-08-23T01:00:12Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-115629481210120704 Bikkurim This is interesting. "Nuturing innovating Jewish projects from start-up to sustainability." I hadn't heard of them before. http://bikkurim.org/ Hat tip to Jewish Fringe. false Yoel Natan 2006-08-21T17:24:00-07:00 2006-08-23T02:11:28Z 2006-08-22T00:55:36Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-115620813654110723 The "Jewish Emergent" Paradigm In our internal conversations, we often describe Moshav HaAm as an effort to build infrastructure to catch the rising groundswell (lest it flood, make a big mess, and evaporate), but obviously it is necessary to identify, as best we can, just what the supposed groundswell is. Shawn Landres has made a respectable stab at defining the Emerging Spiritual Paradigm in Sh'ma magazine: Three broad false Maggid Sarah 2006-08-18T01:12:00-07:00 2006-08-18T08:52:27Z 2006-08-18T08:34:56Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-115589009667989524 First Notes of Theory B"H Well, still on the road for a few more days before I get to settle into home for a stretch, so I admit to being lax on the writing front (Yoel Natan has blessedly been translating our work into Moshav postings-- thank you friend!) Anyrate, just to prove I do in fact exist in this conversation, here are the beginnings of tonight's notes-- if you can read them, you're welcome to them. (Click false Yoel Natan 2006-08-17T14:28:00-07:00 2006-08-17T23:38:58Z 2006-08-17T23:37:13Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-115585783323542967 Non-Institutional Organizational Models: Jews In the Woods I first learned of the East Coast-based Jews In the Woods from organizer, activist, and RRC rabbinical student Joe Berman, who was a centrally-involved "Fruity Jew" during his undergraduate years at Wesleyan. This is how one learns about the Fruity Jews: from someone who is involved. They have no web site, but not because they aren't on the internet. They maintain their network and conduct false Yoel Natan 2006-08-16T13:04:00-07:00 2006-08-17T00:07:03Z 2006-08-17T00:07:03Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029080.post-115577322392650938 Moshav Mission, re: Midrash and Mishkan To develop and deploy models for dwelling in Jewish community according primarily to a midrashic rather than (or in tandem with?) an halakhic organizing principle. false