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Peninsula Jewish Community Center

PJCC 107 days ago, Comments (0), (Detail)

Rebecca Goodman

Jesus in (Jewish) Religious Schools

Rebecca Goodman 157 days ago, Comments (0), (Detail)

An interesting article stemming from a religious school assignment where the students researched famous Jews. One chose Jesus. How does the Jewish teacher respond? How much religion should be included in our supplemental schools? Note: Jesus was born a Jew and died a Jew. During Jesus's lifetime Christianity did not exist. Paul, a disciple of Jesus, became the leader of Jesus' followers after his death, and he was the founder of Christianity as a separate religion.

Rebecca Goodman

Creating a Congregational Policies

Rebecca Goodman 157 days ago, Comments (0), (Detail)

Recommendations for creating a welcoming policy. Includes 11 recommendations with examples from reform, reconstructionist and conservative congregations for each recommendation.

Stacie Garnett-Cook

Explaining Religious Boundaries to Interfaith Couples

Stacie Garnett-Cook 157 days ago, Comments (0), (Detail)

Article by Karen Kushner on how rabbis can respectfully say "no" to a couple.

This course focuses on how religion, ethnicity, and race contributed to maintaining group separatism at some early points in history and intersected to create a unified national identity at others. It will also explore the relationship between group continuity and individual identity development. Using gender as a primary category of analysis and Jews as a case study, it will examine how romantic relationships between people with different ethno-religious backgrounds were portrayed in literature and film during the rising culture of individualism in America. The course is designed to explain how large issues such as anti-Semitism, segregation, sexism and identity politics influence life on both national and personal levels. We will look at how contextual factors such as immigration trends, World Wars, and the civil rights, feminist, and fatherhood movements influenced the meaning of love across religious, ethnic, and racial lines. (Modern)