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Special Report: Reinventing Synagogue
Baltimore’s Climate Healing Shabbat
October 8, 2009On the weekend of October 24 and 25, people the world over will be thinking “350”. That is the number of…
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Judaism Meets Green Lifestyle, Charitable Giving
April 10, 2009Protecting our environment and preserving our natural resources are key components of a green lifestyle. Taking political or individual action to…
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Three Baltimore Synagogues Sign Green Deal
December 19, 2008Three local congregations recently signed up with the Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network to become “green” synagogues. Baltimore Hebrew Congregation was the…
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Vine Country
November 21, 2008A thick autumn fog enveloped Temple Emanuel of Maryland on a recent weekday morning. Wet leaves clung to each other in…
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Willow Creek’s Young Voices
May 23, 2008Final installment of a three-part series on the Chicago area’s Willow Creek Community Church South Barrington, Ill. In a coffee shop…
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Associated Head On Willow Creek Lessons
May 16, 2008Second installment of a three-part series on the Chicago area’s Willow Creek Community Church What can Jewish organizations and institutions learn…
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Willow Creek Rising
May 9, 2008“Come on already, Mom!” In a spacious, busy parking lot in this northwest Chicago suburb among patchworks of rolling farmlands, nondescript…
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Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Manhattan
March 14, 2008Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon has heard the criticism before. The gentle, soft-spoken senior spiritual leader of B’nai Jeshurun — an unaffiliated…
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Opening The Soul
March 7, 2008The late Friday afternoon sun sank slowly as a line of people began to form outside the doors of Congregation B’nai…
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