Music for the Soul with Joey Weisenberg

Joey Weisenberg, Creative Director of Hadar’s Rising Song Institue, author of 2 books and several albums, shares how to build community, improve worship experience, and deepen your personal spiritual connection through music.

About Our Guest

Joey Weisenberg is the Creative Director of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, which seeks to empower Jewish community-building through music. Joey works to educate and train communities around the world to unlock their musical and spiritual potential, and to make music a lasting and joy­-filled force in shul and in Jewish life. Joey runs workshops and trainings across the country, including the Singing Communities Intensive each December at Hadar in New York City. Joey has authored Building Singing Communities, and The Torah of Music (Fall 2017) published by Mechon Hadar and winner of a National Jewish Book Award, and is a multi-instrumental musician, singer, and composer. His nigunim, published in 6 CDs and a Songbook, have become popular worldwide.

Resources Mentioned

• Building Singing Communities
• The Torah of Music
• Joey’s studio albums
• Lincoln’s Nigun (and other tracks) on YouTube
• Joey’s favorite book about Lincoln
• Full track of “Nola Nigun” – this show’s theme music – on YouTube
• Singing Communities Intensive – Joey’s annual retreat in NYC (highly recommended)

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Belonging without Borders with Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu

In this episode Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu teaches us why its important to find a teacher you click with, how to get your Jewish questions answered if you don’t yet feel comfortable at a synagogue, and how to approach inviting yourself to someone else’s Passover seder. We also talk about why sometimes you need a “mikveh lady” (or a mikveh bro), and sometimes you need a “wing-Jew.”

Rabbi Sirbu is the Director of Rabbis Without Borders at CLAL – The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Named as one of the most innovative Jewish organizations in America by the Slingshot Guide, Rabbis Without Borders stimulates and supports creativity in religious life. Rabbi Sirbu was named as one of the “Most Inspirational Rabbis in America” by The Forward Newspaper. Founder of RabbiCareers.com, Rabbi Sirbu makes it easier for communities, organizations and individuals to hire rabbis.

In addition, she is a consultant for synagogues, organizations, and individuals on leadership development, building creative capacity, actualizing ideas, and how to work across religious and cultural borders. She is an expert voice on social media, and a speaker and writer on a variety of issues related to religion in America today. She is published in several books: I am Here: The Untold Stories of Everyday People, Faithfully Feminist: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Women on Why They Stay, and The Sacred Calling: Forty Years of Women in the Rabbinate , and is a regular contributor to eJewish Philanthropy, among other publications. She manages and writes for the Rabbis Without Borders blog on myjewishlearing.com. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College, she holds a master’s degree and ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She tweets at @rabbirebecca and @rwbclal.

Resources

• Rabbis Without Borders
• CLAL
• RabbiCareers.com
• The passage of Mishnah Pirkei Avot (1:6) we discussed.
• More on positive psychology.
• The top book on positive psychology and how to apply it to your life.
• Theme music: “Nola Nigun” by Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble
• Right click to download this episode directly to your computer.

Upcoming Event

Burbank Human Relations Council Interfaith Forum(click to open BHRC page, then scroll down for event info & tickets): A Christian, a Jew, and Muslim in Conversation

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Knowing People, Knowing God with Rabbi Brad Artson

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL, is an inspiring speaker and educator, a prolific author and regular columnist for the Huffington Post, and a mensch. He holds the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean’s Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and is vice president of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, where he teaches in the philosophy department, supervises the Miller Introduction to Judaism Program, and mentors Camp Ramah in California. He is also dean of Zacharias Frankel College in Potsdam, Germany, ordaining rabbis for the European Union.

In this episode Rabbi Artson shares his compelling, sometimes surprising, and always compassionate view about God, the Jewish people, and the rabbinic profession.

Resources

• Extended bio with list of articles and books published
• Rabbi Artson’s Facebook page
• What are tefillin?
• Introductory book to Rabbi Artson’s Process Theology: God of Becoming and Relationship
• First book in new trilogy on Process Theology: Renewing the Process of Creation
• Theme music: “Nola Nigun” by Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble
• Right click to download this episode directly to your computer.

Upcoming Event

Burbank Human Relations Council Interfaith Forum: A Christian, a Jew, and Muslim in Conversation (scroll down for event info & tickets

Bonus Content

Do you feel like something maybe holding you back from having a better understanding of Judaism, or perhaps holding you back from having a more joyful experience of Judaism yourself?

You may be holding onto one of five limiting beliefs. If you download this resource, we can learn together and grow together so that you can get more out of Judaism and just maybe, more out of your life.

Authentic Leadership and Just Love with Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp – Show Notes for Episode 4

What does authentic leadership look like, and how do you lead people when you, at first, don’t fit their expectations?

In this episode my friend, hevruta (study partner) in Rabbis Without Borders, and teacher teaches us about leadership when you may not be exactly what other people expect you to be. We also talk about her advice for people looking for a way into Judaism, the power of forming communities online, the tricky thing about interfaith work, and spiritual self care for activists.

About Our Guest

Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp serves as the spiritual leader of Temple Sholom in Cincinnati, Ohio. Temple Sholom sets itself apart through dynamic, mission driven, initiatives. Most notable, is their pioneering approach to “sacred marketing,” which has released over 40 videos to a 400,000 person viewership that delivers Jewish content in innovative manners.

Rabbi Terlinchamp is the Director of JustLOVE, a multi-faith initiative that seeks to empower individuals with the knowledge, inspiration, and spiritual strength to be their best selves and do justice in this world. Terlinchamp serves as the Immediate Past President of The Amos Project, the largest faith-based organizing body in Ohio with 35 Cincinnati-area congregations. She writes a monthly op-ed as part of The Enquirer Board of Contributors.

Rabbi Terlinchamp is a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow and is a member of the esteemed GLEAN Spiritual Entrepreneur 2017 cohort, a collaborative incubator formed in partnership between CLAL and the Columbia Business School. She is active in Ohio Organizing Collaborative, Economics of Compassion, and serves on several boards and committees within the Cincinnati Jewish community.

Rabbi Terlinchamp received her masters degree in Hebrew Letters in 2008, and was ordained as a rabbi in 2010 at HUC-JIR, Los Angeles. She received her Bachelors degree in Philosophy of Religion and Studio art from Scripps College in Claremont, CA and received additional studio art training at the London Slade School of art.  Previous to joining Temple Sholom, Rabbi Terlinchamp served as chaplain and at the Los Angeles County Men’s jail, the Los Angeles Home for the Aging, as a rabbinic fellow at Temple De Hirch Sinai in Seattle, WA and a national Kol Tzedek fellow for AJWS. Rabbi Terlinchamp and her husband have two young daughters.

Resources Mentioned

• Spiritual marketing: Watch Videos from Temple Sholom of Cincinnati
• JustLOVE on Facebook
• New intro/outro music: “Nola Nigun” by Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble
• Join Rabbi Carrier live on July 29: “A Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim in Conversation” – Burbank Human Relations Council Interfaith Forum & Dinner

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