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With Synagogues in Jeopardy, It’s Time To Talk About Tithing
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- About Me:
- RABBI DENNIS S. ROSS is director of Concerned Clergy for Choice for The Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of New York State, where he coordinates an interfaith network of 1000 clergy in support of reproductive rights. He is a rabbi at Temple Emanuel of Worcester, MA and has served synagogues in New York, Washington, DC, and Massachusetts.
Rabbi Ross has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Journal of Reform Judaism and MultiCultural Review. His most recent book, God in Our Relationships: The Spirituality between People from the Teachings of Martin Buber is released by Jewish Lights Publishing as is his contribution to the LifeLights Series, “Abortion and Judaism.” Through Family Planning Advocates of New York State, he is author of Stem Cell Research: A Study and Advocacy Toolkit for Clergy and lead author of When a Woman Makes a Choice: A Curriculum on Reproductive Decisions for Clinical Pastoral Education.
He travels frequently to speak about reproductive rights, stem cell research, end-of-life, Jewish spirituality and the separation of church and state.
- Website:
- http://www.dennisross.net
God in Our Relationships:Spritualty between People from the Teachings of Martin Buber
"We can go through each day—or a lifetime—as sleepwalkers while awake, tossing and turning on pillows that are as hard as appointment books, wandering a paved spiritual wilderness from bank window to house of worship to hospital bedside. But if we are fortunate enough to happen upon a vision of the Divine—in a chance chat with a semi-stranger or a lingering conversation with a good friend—we can awaken to the spirituality between people that Martin Buber called I-Thou."
—from God in Our Relationships
It is possible to infuse every moment of life with meaning—from the routine act to the once-in-a-lifetime situation—and this first-of-its-kind introduction to Martin Buber’s I-Thou shows you how.
Drawing on Jewish tradition, the science of human behavior, Buber’s ideas and the Hasidic stories that he loved, Rabbi Dennis Ross illuminates a theology of relationships in easy-to-understand, accessible language. You will clearly see how to use the principles of I-Thou to create new answers to critical issues in life, such as:
• How do I react to others in times of stress?
• How do I relate to strangers?
• How can I take full advantage of the time I have to spend with my loved ones?
By unlocking the depths in Buber’s concepts for spiritual growth, Ross supplies you with the tools you need to communicate better, love more completely, and find the sacred in everyday life.
“By interweaving his own life experience with quotations and insights derived from Martin Buber’s I and Thou and his Tales of the Hasidim, Rabbi Ross has accomplished the remarkable feat of making Buber’s wisdom accessible in the everyday to men and women in every walk of life.”
—Maurice Friedman, author,
Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber
—from God in Our Relationships
It is possible to infuse every moment of life with meaning—from the routine act to the once-in-a-lifetime situation—and this first-of-its-kind introduction to Martin Buber’s I-Thou shows you how.
Drawing on Jewish tradition, the science of human behavior, Buber’s ideas and the Hasidic stories that he loved, Rabbi Dennis Ross illuminates a theology of relationships in easy-to-understand, accessible language. You will clearly see how to use the principles of I-Thou to create new answers to critical issues in life, such as:
• How do I react to others in times of stress?
• How do I relate to strangers?
• How can I take full advantage of the time I have to spend with my loved ones?
By unlocking the depths in Buber’s concepts for spiritual growth, Ross supplies you with the tools you need to communicate better, love more completely, and find the sacred in everyday life.
“By interweaving his own life experience with quotations and insights derived from Martin Buber’s I and Thou and his Tales of the Hasidim, Rabbi Ross has accomplished the remarkable feat of making Buber’s wisdom accessible in the everyday to men and women in every walk of life.”
—Maurice Friedman, author,
Encounter on the Narrow Ridge: A Life of Martin Buber
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With Synagogues in Jeopardy, It’s Time To Talk About Tithing
With Synagogues in Jeopardy, It’s Time To Talk About Tithing
The Jewish Daily Forward
By Dennis Ross and Robert Evans
Thu. Apr 24, 2008
After winning a record 74 consecutive games on the television game-show Jeopardy, Ken Jennings of Murray, Utah, tithed $2.5 million in prize money to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormons like Jennings, as well as Baptists and many people of other faiths, proudly tithe to their churches.
But we Jews, we don’t even talk about tithing, excep… Continue
Posted on April 27th, 2008 at 9:08pm —
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