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Rabbi Adina Lewittes
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Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Green Burial and Jewish Law
A virtual event presentation by Rabbi Adina LewittesEvent Co-Sponsored by Temple EmanuelAbout the Event:Cultural and environmental trends of the 21st century are raising important challenges to long-accepted notions of Kevod Hamet (“respect for the deceased”) in the way we handle bodies after death. Are our assumptions around the requirements for burial grounded in our sacred texts? Is burial really a mitzvah? Is cremation absolutely prohibited? Can alternatives to traditional practices live within a halakhic (Jewish legal) framework?*Source Sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fRFOJ32L_f7...
2023-03-30
1h 00
GROUNDWAVES
May 17, 2022 Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman of YidLife Crisis
On Comedy and Jewish Identity with Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman of YidLife Crisis
2022-07-13
1h 03
GROUNDWAVES
June 2022 GroundWaves Pride Edition
Allyship with Rabbi Mike Moskowitz
2022-07-13
1h 05
GROUNDWAVES
March 15, 2022 - GroundWaves Special Edition: The War in Ukraine
Ariel Zwang, CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee talks with Dini about the American Jewish response to the crisis, how the nature of Jewish solidarity evolves over time and space, and what we need to learn from this moment about Jewish responsibility to one another and to the world around us. Then, Michaela Slutsky of the Jewish Education Project, a first generation Russian speaking American Jew of Ukrainian descent, reflects on the complexities of identity and belonging and how they are being challenged in this terrifying moment.
2022-03-17
1h 04
GROUNDWAVES
February 15, 2022. Dan Senor
An author, investor, former political advisor, and cultural commentator, Dan Senor talks with Dini about post-pandemic Judaism, how to talk to our kids about rising antisemitism, and the politics of Covid.
2022-02-23
1h 01
Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Requiring Brit Mikvah for female trans converts?
A virtual event presentation by Rabbi Adina Lewittes ABOUT THE EVENT: How does Jewish law, a system based on such binaries as muttar (permitted) and assur (prohibited) and hayav (obligated) and patur (exempt), inform our contemporary understanding of gender which is increasingly shaped by fluidity and in some cases hybridity? In this particular case, would a trans woman who has not had gender confirmation surgery be required to undergo a ritual circumcision as part of her conversion process? Does the mitzvah of brit milah apply only to those whose gender is male or to all those whose anatomy is male...
2022-01-21
1h 12
Divorce etc... hosted by the exEXPERTS (T.H. and Jessica)
How Religion and Spirituality Affect Divorce | S1, Ep. 53
It's a sad fact that many people who get divorced often feel more shame and judgement about their divorce, based on their religious and cultural beliefs. Divorce doesn't just affect you and your partner and children...it affects all of your loved ones in some way - siblings, parents and friends. How do you navigate the feelings of letting other people down? Of feeling like you're doing something that your religion or culture frowns upon? Of feeling like you're doing something wrong by getting divorced and will be judged or shunned because of it? This is a powerful and...
2021-12-14
40 min
GROUNDWAVES
April 26 - Dr. Brynn Levy
Personalized Medicine: The Future is Now - Are We Ready?
2021-04-28
1h 01
GROUNDWAVES
April 19 - Raffi Schieir, Bantam Materials
Plastics Recycling and the Art of Climate Justice (in honor of Earth Day 4/22)
2021-04-28
59 min
GROUNDWAVES
April 12 - Steven Klein (Yom Ha’Atzmaut)
Minority Faces of Israel
2021-04-28
1h 01
GROUNDWAVES
April 5 - Melissa Hacker (Yom Hashoah)
Kindertransports: Remembering the Future
2021-04-27
59 min
GROUNDWAVES
March 22 - Zion Ozeri
Images as Sacred Texts
2021-04-27
1h 00
GROUNDWAVES
March 15 - Yad B’Yad Lee Gordon & Alumni
Studying our Way to Peace
2021-04-27
1h 02
GROUNDWAVES
March 8 - Vanessa Wruble
Co-Founder of the Women’s March and Executive Director of www.marchon.org
2021-04-27
58 min
GROUNDWAVES
March 1st - Sue Roy, Esq
Immigration Reform and Caring for the Stranger
2021-04-27
1h 00
GROUNDWAVES
Feb 22 - Jonathan Hausmann, OTPP
Greening the Markets
2021-02-25
56 min
GROUNDWAVES
Feb 15th - Allie Cannington
Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month
2021-02-25
1h 00
GROUNDWAVES
Feb 8th - Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz
The Future of Convervative Judaism
2021-02-25
1h 00
GROUNDWAVES
Feb 1st - Marques Hollie
Marques Hollie
2021-02-25
1h 04
Evolve
Human Composting: Good for the Environment, But Is It Kosher?
Natural Organic Reduction — or, more colloquially, human composting — is not only legal in Washington State, but also happening, right now. People are choosing to have their remains rapidly converted into soil. How will Jewish leaders and communities respond to a practice that, on some level, is challenging to Jewish law, to centuries of burial practices, and, maybe, to people’s sensibilities? In this live episode, recorded as part of the 2021 Big Bold Jewish Climate Festival, we speak with Rabbi Seth Goldstein and Rabbi Adina Lewittes, two religious leaders who’ve thought deeply about human composting, the green burial m...
2021-02-16
1h 06
GROUNDWAVES
January 25th - David Marks & Kathy Peck Marks
Reflections for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2021-02-01
1h 01
GROUNDWAVES
January 18 Rabbi Sandra Lawson
Racial Diversity and the Jewish Community
2021-02-01
1h 00
GROUNDWAVES
January 11 - Selaedin Maksut
Executive Director of CAIR-New Jersey (the Council on American-Islamic Relations New Jersey chapter), America’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group
2021-02-01
1h 05
GROUNDWAVES
January 4 - Dr. Jennifer Ashton
Taming the Pandemic and the Ethics of Rolling Out Covid-19 Vaccines
2021-01-31
1h 01
GROUNDWAVES
December 21 - Jodi Bromberg, 18Doors (formerly Interfaithfamily.com)
Multifaith/Multiheritage families and the Growing Diversity of the Jewish Community
2021-01-31
1h 03
GROUNDWAVES
December 14 - Nessa Rapoport, Author
Grief, Memory and Identity
2021-01-31
1h 01
GROUNDWAVES
December 7 - Miriam Hartman, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Music as a Cultural Unifier and a Catalyst for Social Change
2021-01-12
1h 02
GROUNDWAVES
November 30 - Anita Diamant, author
Writing The Red Tent and Making Jewish Ritual Accessible
2021-01-12
57 min
GROUNDWAVES
November 23 - Julie Garreau, Cheyenne River Youth Project
Jewish-Indiginous Solidarity on the Eve of Thanksgiving
2021-01-12
1h 02
GROUNDWAVES
November 16 - Dr. Robert Pollack, Columbia University
Science and Religion, Genes and Jews: The Full Picture
2021-01-12
57 min
GROUNDWAVES
November 9 - Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado
What Now: The Future of American Democracy
2021-01-12
58 min
GROUNDWAVES
November 2 - Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer, Shalom Hartman Institute of North America
The 2020 US Presidential Election and the Jewish Community
2021-01-12
59 min
GROUNDWAVES
October 26th - Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
A New Jewish Movement for the Environment
2021-01-12
1h 02
GROUNDWAVES
October 19th - Nadav Greenberg, North Miznon, NYC
The Global Appetite for Israeli Food
2021-01-12
1h 07
GROUNDWAVES
October 12th - Dan Nadel
Dan Nadel’s Musical Journey
2021-01-12
1h 09
GROUNDWAVES
October 5th - Idit Klein, Keshet
Covid-19 and LGBTQ Jewish Youth
2021-01-12
1h 02
GROUNDWAVES
Sept 21 - Rabbi Daniel Siegel, Aleph Canada
Jewish Renewal: A Mandate and a Movement
2021-01-12
57 min
GROUNDWAVES
Sept 14 - Ruth Messinger
A New Year’s Social Justice Resolution
2021-01-12
58 min
GROUNDWAVES
August 31 - Juan Sanchez
Material Art as Social Protest
2021-01-08
1h 00
GROUNDWAVES
August 24 - Leslie Rockitter
Images of Covid-19 in NYC
2021-01-08
59 min
GROUNDWAVES
August 17 - Rabbi Menachem Creditor/Neshama Carlebach
Music as a Source of Spiritual Resistance
2021-01-08
1h 00
GROUNDWAVES
August 10 - Ron Gold
Living and Loving Beyond Trauma
2021-01-08
1h 02
GROUNDWAVES
August 3 - Dr. Ken Prager, Columbia University Medical Center
The Ethics of Covid-19
2021-01-08
1h 05
GROUNDWAVES
July 27 - Aziz Abu Sarah, Mejdi Tours
Travel as Peacemaking
2021-01-08
58 min
GROUNDWAVES
July 20 - Lecia Brooks, Southern Poverty Law Center
Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racial Justice Work
2021-01-08
59 min
GROUNDWAVES
July 13 - Yoav Peck, Sulha
Bringing Israeli Jews and Arabs Face to Face
2021-01-06
1h 02
GROUNDWAVES
July 6 - Rabbi Jenny Solomon
Mikvah and the Power of Embodied Spirituality
2021-01-06
59 min
GROUNDWAVES
June 30 - Ezra Oliff-Lieberman, Sunrise Movement
The Kids Who are Saving the Planet
2021-01-06
1h 00
GROUNDWAVES
June 23 Lily Hughes-Robinson
A Trans Coming Out Story
2021-01-06
1h 01
GROUNDWAVES
June 16 - Khary Lazarre-White
Executive Director of Bro/Sis Harlem
2021-01-06
58 min
GROUNDWAVES
June 9 - Rabbi Arielle Lekach-Rosenberg
Black Lives Matter, Jews and bridges of change
2020-12-28
1h 01
GROUNDWAVES
June 2 - Rav Haim Ovadia
Halakha and the Covid crisis
2020-12-28
58 min
GROUNDWAVES
May 26 - Rabbi Sharon Brous
Contemplating Silence and Stillness: the world as it was and the world as it could be
2020-12-28
1h 19
GROUNDWAVES
May 19 - Rabbi Amichai Lau Lavie
From ritual counting of the Omer to making every day count
2020-12-28
1h 08
GROUNDWAVES
May 12 - Yakir Englander
The Journey from the ultra-orthodox world to Hassidic understandings of the pandemic
2020-12-28
1h 08
GROUNDWAVES
May 5 - Rabbi Eric Solomon
Walking the wilderness of the pandemic.
2020-12-28
1h 11
Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shabbat
Shabbat, Daf 127
Welcome to the Hundred and Twenty Sixith episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Adina Lewittes looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 127. This page in Massechet Shabbat tries to understand some of the Sages concerns about exerting ourselves physically on Shabbat. It then shares some beautiful teachings about the importance of the mitzvah of Hachnasat Orchim, the welcoming of guests, and of judging one another favorably, giving people the benefit of the doubt. Rabbi Adina Lewittes is the founder of Sha’ar Communities in Bergen County, New Jersey, a groundbreaking suburban network of small, inclusive, an...
2020-07-11
11 min
Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shabbat
Shabbat, Daf 126
Welcome to the Hundred and Twenty Fifth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Adina Lewittes looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 126. This page in Massechet Shabbat teaches us an important principle about the relative weight of proof-texts, showing that one which refers to the actual practice of the sages is more authoritative than one which resorts to legal theory. It also teaches us about the Rabbis’ emphasis upon the economy of words, seeing any repetition or superfluous word as an opportunity, no, an obligation, to interpret. Rabbi Adina Lewittes is the founder of Sha’ar C...
2020-07-10
07 min
Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shabbat
Shabbat, Daf 125
Welcome to the Hundred and Twenty Fourth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Adina Lewittes looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 125. This page in Massechet Shabbat shows us the compassionate spirit of Jewish law in that it’s not based upon the lives and means of the majority of the community, but is informed by the lives and means, or lack thereof, of those who live at the margins of community. It also teaches us of the powerful role of mental intent in establishing halachah. Rabbi Adina Lewittes is the founder of Sha’ar Comm...
2020-07-09
09 min
Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shabbat
Shabbat, Daf 124
Welcome to the Hundred and Twenty Third episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Adina Lewittes looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 124. This page in Massechet Shabbat illustrates once again how some sages considered such factors as financial loss when making decisions around Shabbat or Festival observance, reminding us of how halacha never operates in a vacuum. It also contains two fascinating stories: one that teaches us about the ethics of choosing a halachik authority, and one that offers a glimpse into the mundane realities of the life of a Talmudic sage. Rabbi Adina Lewittes...
2020-07-08
11 min
Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shabbat
Shabbat, Daf 123
Welcome to the Hundred and Twenty Second episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Adina Lewittes looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 123. This page in Massechet Shabbat describes two fascinating aspects of the development and growth of Jewish law over the ages. One indicates the different priorities and values poskim, those who decide Jewish law, factor into their decisions; and another recounts the history of how Jewish law, in this case Shabbat law, evolved. The implications for our own times are noted. Rabbi Adina Lewittes is the founder of Sha’ar Communities in Bergen County, Ne...
2020-07-07
10 min
Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shabbat
Shabbat, Daf 122
Welcome to the Hundred and Twenty First episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Adina Lewittes looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 122. This page in Massechet Shabbat deals with the permissibility of a Jew benefiting from work a non-Jew does for themselves on Shabbat. It then opens a new chapter of Massechet Shabbat that returns to the topic of muktzeh, things we are not permitted to move or use on Shabbat. The discussion concludes with a powerful insight into the spiritual, indeed existential, essence of Shabbat itself. Rabbi Adina Lewittes is the founder of Sha’ar...
2020-07-06
04 min
Daily Daf Differently: Masechet Shabbat
Shabbat, Daf 121
Welcome to the Hundred and Twentieth episode of Daily Daf Differently. In this episode, Rabbi Adina Lewittes looks at Masechet Shabbat Daf 121. This page in Massechet Shabbat tackles the question of whether there are any circumstances in which we may direct a non-Jew to work on our behalf on Shabbat. The page continues with a discussion of the permissibility of killing dangerous and threatening animals on Shabbat. The slippery but fascinating issues of intention and appearances make their way into the ancient Rabbis deliberations. Rabbi Adina Lewittes is the founder of Sha’ar Communities in Bergen Co...
2020-07-05
11 min