Big Tent Judaism - There’s Room For everyone!
Yesterday I stumbled across an interesting post by Paul Golin over on the Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI) blog and thought it was worth mentioning here. Its basically an FYI about an upcoming JOI conference and a repost of a great article on the importance of Big Tent Judaism”.
Here is a snippet from the article
The Jewish community today has the opportunity to realize its potential as one “Big Tent.” We have the opportunity, like Abraham and Sarah, to open our doors on all sides; to welcome, include and serve all who would enter, regardless of where they may be on their religious journeys, their choices of life partners, their race, and anything else that has the potential to contribute to the beautiful diversity that has become the Jewish community.
You can read all of it here.
Although this isn’t geared specifically to Jews by choice, I think what JOI is doing is a great thing and is something that will probably be of interest to other JBC’s.
Anyhow let me know what you think!
Hey Avi, thanks for the heads up on this event. I read the write-up, and as with anything written by these two great rabbanim, it was great. They have a great point in the piece, and I hope that this movement picks up some momentum.
Oh, by the way… I finally started to watch that BBC series you posted about on your TG site, and it is really quite good.
Shabbat Shalom!
Yair
Yair, I’m glad you liked it!
Rabbi Elliot Dorff is a real inspiration to me and I’m currently reading a book edited by Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky which has me really impressed! Stay tuned for a book review once I am done!
Oh BTW which BBC videos? I post so many of them.
Rabbi Dorff did a series of lectures at our shul last year. I really enjoyed listening to him and reading his books. Knowing God is one of my favorites.
I haven’t read anything by Rabbi Olitzky, however. I’ll have to see what’s out there.
Speaking of videos, JEWU has 250 youtube videos on Jewish topics. I’ve watched quite a few and like that they’re short and to the point.