A Message from our Clergy - August 10, 2022 As we approach Shabbat Nachamu, the Sabbath of Comfort and Consolation, we turn our hearts towards Israel. Following the IDF arresting a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad in Gaza fired hundreds of rockets towards Israel. The IDF responded with targeted...
Springtide Research Institute’s Head of Community Engagement Marte Aboagye was joined by Rabbi Joshua Stanton and Rabbi Benjamin Spratt: co-authors of the just released book, “Awakenings: American Jewish Transformations in Identity, Leadership, and Belonging.” Together they discussed trends in religious organizations, with a focus on American Jewish life, narrowing in on...
The New Jewish Awakening: Our obsession with the narrative of our community’s decline overlooks threads of optimism and opportunity by Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton. Read the article here. ...
American Jewry needs to wake up to new possibilities - book review: In contrast to the narrative of constant decline, two young American rabbis offer a powerfully positive and perhaps overly optimistic narrative by Rabbi Ron Kronish Read the article here. ...
Commodifying Faith by Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton Read the article here. ...
Join the authors of Awakenings: American Jewish Transformations in Identity, Leadership, and Belonging (https://www.amazon.com/Awakenings-Ame…, Rabbis Joshua Stanton and Benjamin Spratt, and Executive Director Wendy Goldberg as they dive into critical questions facing religion today. Their book explores facets of American Jewish life--and of American religious life in general--and discusses both...
Senior Rabbi Ben Spratt and Senior Cantor Shayna De Lowe 5.20.2022 BEN: The story of tonight is really the story of this community. Ours is the story of two people seeking a home of belonging, only to find it within these walls. In many ways, this is the same story that sparked this...
American Judaism Is in Decline. That's Great News for American Jews: Synagogues closing, rising intermarriage, deepening denominational and political rifts: That's one way to tell the story of today's American Jewish Diaspora. But there's another thrilling, remarkable tale we should be telling by Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton Read the article...
Break Up America’s Clergy Cartel [God Is Not A Business]: We’re Reform rabbis who want more transparency for clergy contracts and fewer protectionist obstacles that keep good people from answering the call by Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton Read the article here. ...
Upon the tragedy in Uvalde, listen to Rabbi Spratt on the Exit Strategy Podcast as he discusses how we can best support, guide, and love our children through and beyond unspeakable tragedies....
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