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The Future of Renewal?
Reuven Goldfarb speculates about the internal inter-personal issues, especially those that interfere with our collective decision-making process. Reuven takes on the issue of territoriality, as perhaps, internally, as no group is immune from potentially schismatic conflict, or as Reuven coins it: "Elbow Room" or "Liebensraum."
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Baseball Kabbalah
Reuven Goldfarb believes that players, fanatics, and worshippers alike - are blessed with moments of transcendence and vindication, a reward for their commitment and justification for all their toil and pain.
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“Who’s That Poke´Mon?” “Sailor Moon Will Be Right Back!”: An Introduction (For Adults) To Two Of Children’s Tv’s Biggest Hits
Reuven Goldfarb shares his impressions of children's TV shows that offer an alternative to the world as managed by clumsy adults, a better, more harmless world, though one still rife with passion and conflict, but one in which goodness not only can but does repeatedly triumph, and the wounds of one day are healed by the next.
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Dialogues Circles in Gush Katif and Neve Dekalim
Reuven Goldfarb shares his experience with a circle of Arabs and Jews who went in to listen, with compassion, to people living in Gush Katif, a bloc of 17 Israeli villages in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the Israeli army carried out the Cabinet's decision and forcibly removed the 8,600 residents of Gush Katif from their homes. Their communities were demolished as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
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Working for Reconciliation: A profile of Marcia Kreisel, Peace Worker
Reuven Goldfarb profiles Marcia Kreisel a vibrant woman who is an organizer of reconciliation dialogue groups.
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Full Service Renewal?
Reuven Goldfrab, in a letter to his colleagues reflects on the question of how the renewal community should respond to the changing - often radically changing - needs of its members.
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The Aquarian Minyan at the Rainbow Gathering
Reuven Goldfarb shares his experiences from the Rainbow Gathering
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Your Portion in the Torah: Hebrew Birthdates as a Tool for Awareness and Insight
Reuven Goldfarb shares his ideas about the existence of a significant link between one's date of birth and the weekly portion.
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Open Forms & Closed Forms: Poetry, Liturgy, & Nusach
Reuven Goldfarb believes that the emergence of a Jewish renewal orthodoxy is not an oxymoron because just as in poetry, or in any of the arts, new forms can become static and imitative of past experiences, rather than creatively transforming them.