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Browse lectures, sermons and reflections from previous JCM years - available in English and German (use tags to filter).

Schmöcker in Vorträgen, Predigten und Betrachtungen der Vorjahre - Texte gibt es auf Deutsch und Englisch (benutze die Tags um zu filtern).

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Jewish Community in Times of Isolation

1/3/2021

 

​Dr. Joshua Edelman

Josh is senior lecturer at the Manchester School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Though his original training is in the anthropology of religion, he has worked for over a decade as a theatre director, largely in Dublin and New York. His research looks at both theatre and religion as fields of social performance, especially in the contemporary West. ​Josh is the principal investigator for BRIC-19, a research project examining how British religious communities have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions it has imposed. The project aims to document, analyse, and understand the new ways that religious communities are coming together, and to use those findings to help make religious communities stronger and more resilient for the future.

For me, Yom Kippur is always the day of the year when I feel most personally connected to the Jewish community. This might seem a bit odd, because at least from the outside, Yom Kippur looks intensely private and personal. It’s the most solemn day in the Jewish year, spent entirely in prayer, fasting, contemplation and repentance. The teaching is that on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year which falls ten days earlier, the Book of Life is opened, and for ten days, each of us has our deeds from the past year examined and our fortunes for the next year written. What we can do, during this time is to ask forgiveness, both of God and of our sisters and brothers, do deeds of charity and goodwill, and pray, because God is the source of mercy, of course, and will be merciful if we ask. Yom Kippur is, in a sense, our last chance to do this work of repentance.

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Our Duty in the World

20/3/2015

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by Rabbi Lea Mühlstein
Jewish Sermon 2015

Aleinu in Hebrew, aleina in Arabic, it is upon us – it is our duty. This is how the prayer that we will be reciting after this sermon begins. What is our duty, our responsibility as people of faith in this world?

We have just spent a week together discussing the topic of solidarity and dissent – we talked about it as opposing tendencies but also as a gentle dance that we shall all dance, as Mark put it in his talk. As individuals of faith we must all walk a narrow path zigzagging between solidarity and dissent

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Dancing in Solidarity and Dissent

16/3/2015

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by Rabbi Mark Solomon
Jewish Lecture 2015

We human beings are social animals, and the longing to be part of a greater whole is deeply rooted in our nature. We begin our existence as part of a matrix, literally, in our mother’s womb, and most of us have the opportunity, in our infancy, to form deep bonds with mother, father, siblings, grandparents, and gradually with a wider family and social group. We are subtly encouraged, even forced, from our earliest years, to share their worldview, their opinions and their hopes for the outcome of our lives. ​

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The ‘Bendorf Effect’

4/11/2013

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Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black
One of my biggest concerns when I commenced studies as a student rabbi at the Leo Baeck College in London in 1983 was having to visit Germany for at least one of the JCM (Jewish Christian Muslim) annual conferences.  My anxiety was all to do with Germany after the holocaust, and nothing, as far as I can recall, about interfaith encounter. ​

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    Authors - Autoren

    All our speakers and contributors are past participants of JCM. They are asked to focus on their personal views on the topic. The idea is not to give a purely academic presentation but rather present a personal reflection.

    Alle unsere Referenten und Autoren waren selbst mal JCM Teilnehmer. Sie werden gebeten, sich auf die persönliche Sichtweise zu konzentrieren. Es handelt sich nicht um akademische Abhandlungen sondern soll das persönliche Hervorheben.

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