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SUMMARY:Boundaries and Belonging: Creating A Synagogue Community of Meaning
DESCRIPTION:Series: Boundaries and Belonging: Creating A Synagogue Communit
 y of Meaning\nIn our fragmented world\, how can the synagogue be a nexus o
 f community and connection? At a time of radical individuality\, what is t
 he value of communal life? How can we straddle the tension between nurturi
 ng a community of belonging with the need for boundaries? Who is an “ins
 ider” and who is an “outsider” in the modern American synagogue? Wha
 t are the obstacles to the inclusive\, pluralistic synagogue today?Join th
 e Shalom Hartman institute of North America for a community conversation t
 hat explores these questions that are vital to our Conservative synagogues
  in Westchester. Learn together with Hartman’s world-renowned scholars\,
  including (names and pics) Yehuda Kurtzer\, Mijal Bitton\, Justin Pines\,
  Lauren Berkun.\n\nLearn more and register at shalomhartman.org/boundaries
 belonging\n\nSession Two: Being On the Inside: Boundaries and Belonging\nM
 ijal Bitton\, January 19\, 2023\nThis session explores the tensions betwee
 n creating communities belonging that are still boundaried. In a membershi
 p model community\, what does it mean to belong? How do we navigate the te
 nsions between building communities that are inclusive and preserving a co
 re set of commitments that may serve to exclude? How do we create space fo
 r a plurality of views on Israel and American politics? What moral issues 
 arise as a result of defining communal boundaries\, intentionally or unint
 entionally\, that exclude some groups or individuals?\n\nSession Three: Th
 inking beyond Interfaith: New Models for Jewish Community\nJustin Pines\, 
 February 7\, 2023\nFor a long time\, anxiety about intermarriage represent
 ed a set of concerns about Jewish continuity. Though many of these concern
 s no longer reflect the reality of Jewish American life\, many synagogues 
 are concerned about educating their congregants to live knowledgeable\, me
 aningful Jewish lives. How do we think beyond categories of Jew versus non
 -Jew? How can we imagine new models of community?\n\nSession Four: Boundar
 ies and Belonging: Creating A Synagogue Community of Meaning\nLauren Berku
 n\, March 14\, 2023\nGiven the questions and tensions we’ve explored ove
 r the course of the past three sessions\, how do we build and nourish syna
 gogues that reflect our highest aspirations for Jewish life and community?
  How can synagogues embody the richest possibilities for flourishing Jewis
 h life in the 21st century?
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