Spirit and Story Archive

Here you will find a backlist of Spirit and Story articles. Just click and go!

Brad Hirschfield, CLAL Book Review:  The Wisdom of a Starry Night by Sharon Marson (9-29-06)

Irwin Kula, The Power of The Da Vinci Code (5-26-06)

Irwin Kula, Katrina: The Power of Storytelling in Renewal (3-03-06)

Jacob Ner David, Yes, the Tourists are Coming: But is it Good for the Jews or Bad for the Jews? (10-29-04)

Gabi Kula, Religion’s Relationship with September 11    (10-05-04)

Dan Walsh, Six Million is a Rounded Number (4-20-04)

Judy Epstein, CLAL Responds to "Passion of the Christ" (2-27-04)

Judy Epstein and Brad Hirschfield, On New Year's (12-24-03)

Judy Epstein and Brad Hirschfield, On Hanukah (12-19-03)

Judy Epstein and Brad Hirschfield, On Thanksgiving (11-20-03)

Judy Epstein, Brad Hirschfield on Halloween (10-24-03)

Moshe Levin, The Meaning of It All (6-20-03)

Daniel Brenner, Passover - The Unfinished Manuscript (4-11-03)

Janet Kirchheimer, As for the Heavens (03-14-03)

William Meyers, Shooting the Ineffable (2-28-03)

Janet Kirchheimer, Growing Seasons  (10-30-02)

Steve Greenberg, A Joyous Connection with All that Lives (10-4-02)

Daniel Brenner, A Parable For Rosh Hashanah (8-24-02)

Steve Greenberg, Oh Ariel, What a Piece of Work is Man! (5-2-02)

Daniel Brenner, It's Fun to Pray at the Y-M-C-A, and Other Musings on   Patriarchy (4-1-02)

Robert Rabinowitz, Enronomics, Spirituality and Financial Regulation (2-27-02)

Janet Kirchheimer, The Harvest (2-22-02)

Shari Cohen, In Search of the Perfect Health Club (2-1-02)

Richard Lipton, A Prayer for the Millennium (1-3-02)

Janet Kirchheimer, Connection, Comfort and Community (12-13-01)

Brad Hirschfield, War, Ethics and Values: An Interview with Brad Hirschfield (11-16-01)

Tsvi Blanchard, The Gentle Consolations of Cynicism (11-1-01)

Daniel Brenner, If God Ain't a Tarheel Fan, Then Why is the Sky in Carolina  Blue? (10-19-01)

Robert Rabinowitz, Somebody Else's Sacred Space

Jennifer Krause, Strap-Hangers on Sukkot

Irwin Kula, Seeking a Sense of Mitzvah

Michael Gottsegen, The Path of the Spirit: Selfish or Selfless?

Tsvi Blanchard, Spirituality and Imagination

Steve Greenberg, The Thanksgiving Story

David Nelson, Gift-Giving and Chanukah

David Kraemer, Spirituality and Intellectual (dis)Engagement

Steve Greenberg, A Wonderful Night for a Moondance: Reflections on Kiddush Levana

Janet Kirchheimer, A Year of Special Blessings

Daniel Brenner, Celebrities Turning to Jewish Spirituality: Is it Good for the Jews?

Vanessa Ochs, When We Become the Olden Days

Jennifer Krause, Taking a Trip? Become a Mitzvah Messenger

Daniel Brenner, Should We Say a Kaddish for the Kaddish

Andrew Silow-Carroll, From Menstruation to Pet Loss: A Bounty of New Jewish Rituals

David Kraemer, Is Urban Spirituality Unnatural?

Robert Rabinowitz, Close Encounters

Daniel S. Brenner, Red, White and Blues: Jews on July 4th

Steve Greenberg, Bat Mitzvah Bonanza

Steve Greenberg, Holy Atheism

Robert Rabinowitz, Where Is The 'Burning Man' Fire in Jewish Life?

Jennifer Krause, Dance Lessons

Michael Gottsegen, The Spirituality of Politics

David Nelson, Foreplay in Shul

Daniel Brenner, Jews on Thanksgiving

Janet R. Kirchheimer, Gardens and Blessings: Digging in the Dirt

Shari Cohen, Crossing Boundaries: Confessions of a Reluctant Spiritual Explorer

Daniel Brenner, More Weird Religious Visions from Jersey

Walter Ruby, An Outsider Steps In: My First Week at CLAL

Tsvi Blanchard, The Episodic Nature of Contemporary American Spirituality

Walter Ruby, On God, Sea Ice and the Triumph of Life

Michael Gottsegen, The Name We Dare Not Speak

Vanessa L. Ochs, Acts of God

Irwin Kula, A Passover Reflection

Daniel Brenner, Rainbow Wigs to Matzoh Balls

David Roskies, Nightwords: A Liturgy on the Holocaust

David Roskies, How 'Nightwords' Came into Being

Shari Cohen, The Spirit of Creative Destruction

Daniel Brenner, Little Plastic Torahs, Big Revelations

Janet Kirchheimer, Abundance

Robert Rabinowitz, Confessions of a Moderately Affiliated Soccer Fan

Steve Greenberg, Between Intermarriage and Conversion: Finding a Middle Way


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