Your Jewish Neighborhood

This week's links: The Chanukah Guest Eric A. Kimmel Temple Isaiah's library

Happy Chanukah to everybody from Temple Isaiah of Lafayette, California.

Torah cantillation is the art of changing scripture. Cantor Korn explains its origins and provides examples. This week's links: The Art of Torah Cantillation (Book) Toledot, Genesis Chapter 25, verse 19 Haftorah Malachi chapter 1 Tisha B'av Book of Lamentations

This week's links: The Union for Reform Judaism Women of Reform Judaism National Association of Temple Administrators National Federation of Temple Youth

This week's links: Contra Costa County Winter Nights Program

This week's links: Vocolot Linda Hirschhorn

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Links from this episode: Rosh Chodesh Midrash

Links from this week's show: Children's Book Project Diablo Valley AIDS Center Children's Hospital of Oakland Contra Costa Food Bank Reutlinger Center Red Cross Darfur genocide

This week's show links: Rabbi Shefa Gold The Israelisms Podcast The Story Spieler Podcast

Links for this show: Women of Reform Judaism

This show's links: Hebrew Bubur-Rosenzweig Bible Arthur Hertzberg

Links from this show: Abraham Heschel Solomon Buber

Links from this show: Yiddish theater George and Ira Gershwin Irving Berlin Rogers and Hammmerstein Milk and Honey Don Appel Jerry Herman Philip Roth The 10 Commandments Fiddler on the Roof Joseph Stein Funny Girl Barbara Streisand Molly Picon the Falsettos William Finn Jason Robert Brown Tony Kushner Caroline or Change Jeanine Tesori

Links from this show: Hebrew Union College Chazzanut Shalom Aleichem Debbie Friedman Jeff Kleppler

Links from this show: Jewish Calendar Psalm 27 Song of Songs

Links from the show: Flavius Josephus: Eyewitness to Rome's First Century Conquest of Judea, by Mireille Hadas-Lebel. The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz Focus, by Arthur Miller Constantine's Sword, by James Carroll The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant

In today's podcast, Rabbi Roberto Graetz takes a look at ARZA, the Association of Reform Zionists of America. Links from this show: ARZA Vote ARZA for WZO Elections Our thanks to everybody -- nearly 40 of you! -- who listened to our first podcast. The statistics indicate most of you are downloading the show, and I wanted to let you know that you can also subscribe. You'll need a "podcatcher," software for subscribing to podcasts. I use iPodder. (It's free.) Once you have the software installed on your computer, click the "subscribe" link on this page and copy the URL of the "feed" into the new subscription field in iPodder. And that's it! Now, "Your Jewish Neighborhood" will come to you every Thursday.

Welcome to our very first podcast! Your Jewish Neighborhood is a weekly podcast featuring clergy and other leaders from Temple Isaiah in Lafayette, California, discussing issues and topics of general interest to the affiliated and unaffiliated Jews everywhere. If you have comments, please send them to us at yjn@temple-isaiah.org. In our first podcast, Temple Isaiah Rabbi Roberto Graetz talks about Reform weddings in Israel. Links from this show: ARZA World Jewish Congress