Jewish Renewal Movement

He holds a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and received ordination as a minister of sacred music from the late Reb Zalman Schacter-Shalomi, a founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, in 2012. “Judaism comes to life in Brian's presence — he embodies what ...

The Jewish Renewal movement was started by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a. Hasidic refugee who arrived in New York after fleeing Nazi persecution. While living through the transformations of the '60s in America, including the New Age movement and second- wave feminism, Zalman struggled to ...

What happens when two Jewish musicians shaped by different life experiences come together to create a 21st-century take on Kabbalat Shabbat? ... under the name Pharaoh's Daughter, reconnected with Judaism via Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi's Renewal movement, and became an ordained cantor, ...

One of the more refreshing Jewish books of the '90s was “The Jew in the Lotus,” Rodger Kamenetz's account of a meeting between the Dalai Lama and ... ordained or influenced by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a former Chabad rabbi who has been a seminal figure in the Jewish renewal movement.

Asiyah is a part of Aleph, the Jewish Renewal Movement that places special emphasis on Kabbalah, meditation, mysticism, and the power of music. Members are ... While both these places offer critical support for local Jews, Curiel has found a niche for his own congregation. He ultimately hopes to own a ...

Believe it or not, Debbie Friedman was not the only woman composing Jewish liturgical music (not to diminish her importance). The supposed .... Gold is a leader in the Renewal movement, and her music has been a big part of the Renewal community (and others) for a long time. If you've spent much time ...

She added a major in Judaic studies to her course load for clinical psychology and, since then, has remained a practicing Jew. ... According to a 2014 Pew Forum survey, 2 percent of Jews in the United States described themselves as black, although the Institute for Jewish and Community Outreach in San ...

The spirit of the 1960s, with all its countercultural passion, ecstatic practices and transcendental yearnings, touched American Judaism most of all through the Jewish Renewal movement, which sought to reclaim the religion's mystical traditions. Throughout the life of its charismatic founder, Rabbi Zalman ...

American Judaism itself changed as a result of that hippie culture, with the Jewish Renewal movement and the growth of Chabad considered legacies ... Many of those Jews later gravitated to the House of Love and Prayer, founded in San Francisco in the spring of 1968 by Coopersmith and Rabbi Shlomo ...