The Jewish Roots of Kehilla’s Values: Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Part III
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson In these monthly articles I have been offering readers some background history on the Jewish sources of the values and ideals that motivated me to […]
The Jewish Roots of Kehilla’s Values: Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Part 2
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson When I first met Rabbi Zalman Schachter in the mid-1960s he certainly looked like an orthodox Jew, sporting a beard and sidelocks, and dressed in black. […]
The Jewish Roots of Kehilla’s Values: Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Part 1
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson In these monthly articles I have been offering readers some background history on the Jewish sources of the values and ideals that motivated me to develop […]
The Jewish Roots of Kehilla’s Values: Martin Buber, Part 4
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson Martin Buber’s parents divorced when he was quite young, and he grew up living on a farm with his paternal grandparents. The boy would also visit […]
The Jewish Roots of Kehilla’s Values: Martin Buber, Part 3
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson I became aware of Martin Buber’s views about Zionism and Israel during the 1970s, and since that time his spiritual/political approach to these thorny issues has […]
The Jewish Roots of Kehilla’s Values: Martin Buber, Part 2
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson I spent my junior year in Israel in 1964-65, and one of my teachers was Martin Buber’s closest friend, Ernst Simon. Prof. Simon had arranged for […]
The Jewish Roots of Kehilla’s Values: Martin Buber, Part 1
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson In this series of articles I offer readers some background history on the Jewish sources of the values and ideals that motivated me to develop the […]
Epiphany on the San Rafael Bridge
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson For the last few years my wife Diane and I have lived in El Sobrante, California, about eight miles north of Berkeley. I was recently asked to […]
The Jewish Roots of Kehilla’s Values: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Part 4
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson When Abraham Joshua Heschel arrived in the U.S. in 1940 from war-torn Europe, he was determined to write a book on the Ba’al Shem Tov. My […]
Hope in a Challenging Time
by Rabbi Burt Jacobson I offered the following message about hope at this year’s community seder, and I wanted to share it with the entire community. Having grown up during […]
