Personal Reflections

Joy/Heartbreak/Grandchild: That's one word, not three.

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 7/22/2010

Last week (mid-July 2010), I described what I was doing right then, in a note on my FaceBook page. This is what I said:

"In theory I'm on vacation at Cape May, Delaware. [Cape May, I later remembered, is actually in New Jersey, just across the Bay from Delaware.] It has been a delicious time with Phyllis-- my life-partner, favorite rabbi, and co-author -- and other family, including our ten-month old granddaughter, who is a hoot.   Read more »

Martin Luther King, April 4, & the Freedom Seder

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 3/31/2010

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow [This is an excerpt from my book Godwrestling — Round 2, which is available from The Shalom Center by clicking here.   Read more »

Sabbath in the City

By Editor | 3/31/2010

Rabbi Amy Eilberg is a member of the Shalom Center Board. She lives in Minneapolis, leads interfaith work in the Twin Cities, and writes for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

The city of Philadelphia was in the throes of a record-setting blizzard when I joined a conference call the other day with my colleague Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of the Shalom Center.   Read more »

Oh Freedom: Inward, Outward

By Anonymous | 3/31/2010

By Arlene Goldbard, chair of the Shalom Center Board, activist on behalf of community-based cultural expression. See her blog here.

March 28th, 2010   Read more »

Embracing The Outsider

By Editor | 12/19/2009

By Arlene Goldbard
[Goldbard chairs the Board of The Shalom Center. She has worked for decades in encouraging community-based art.This post is from her blog; see information at the end pf this essay.]   Read more »

Godwrestling: an adult name change

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 12/7/2009

Dear chevra,
Yesterday morning (Shabbat Vayishlach, December 5, 2009), for the first time since my car crash in August, I was able to lead the Torah discussion at P’nai Or of Philadelphia.   Read more »

From Hospital Bed to DC Street Protest -- Facing the "Health Unsurance" Corporations & their dangerous behavior

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow | 3/12/2010

Photo of Rabbis Lerner & Waskow at DC Demo, March 11, 2010, confronting "health

Dear chevra,

This past Tuesday (March 9, 2010), I joined about 5,000 other people to fill an entire city block of Washington DC to protest at a gathering of "health unsurance" executives and lobbyists at a hotel there. The intention was to make a citizen's arrest of those executives for policies that kill people.    Read more »

Religion as a Source of Peace?

By Anonymous | 2/24/2010

by Rabbi Amy Eilberg, February 24, 2010
[Eilberg is a member of the Board of The Shalom Center. She was the first woman ordained as a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She directs interfaith dialog programs in the Twin Cities, including at the Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning and the St. Paul Interfaith Network.]    Read more »

(In)Gratitude

By Editor | 11/29/2009

Arlene Goldbard
[Goldbard chairs the board of The Shalom Center She works in community-culture development. Her own website is at http://arlenegoldbard.com See below for her blog URL. ]   Read more »