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- Article: Addendum to Symposium on Music in Jewish Life After the First-Ever Harmoniyah Music Retreat
By Rabbi Margot L. Stein
In her essay of the latest Harmoniyah retreat in November of 2007, Margot Stein reports on the state of Reconstructionist music with its reinvention of tradition and ability to experiment in new territory. Stein also reflects on the use of music as a vehicle for spirituality.
- Audio Interview: Creativity And Jewish Arts
By Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton, Rabbi Rachel Gartner, Rabbi Shawn Zevit
Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton and Rachel Gartner discuss how we balance tradition and innovation. What approaches to creative expression can Reconstructionism offer and what is the place of art in individual and communal spiritual life? An episode of Heart, Mind and Spirit, the first regularly scheduled Reconstructionist radio show in the history of the movement.
- Audio Interview: Passover: The Seder
By Rabbi Richard Hirsh, Rabbi Joy Levitt, Rabbi Shawn Zevit
An overview of the structure, development and religious meanings of the haggadah and the Passover seder with Rabbis Joy Levitt and Richard Hirsh. Includes a special behind-the-scenes look at the new Reconstructionist Haggadah A Night of Questions and accompanying music CD. An episode of Heart, Mind and Spirit, the first regularly scheduled Reconstructionist radio show in the history of the movement.
- Class Activity: Useful Art Projects Using Recycled Materials
By Rabbi Amy Klein
Directions to make fabric lunch boxes and flowerpots out of used materials you can find around the house. A great Tu Bishvat activity!
- Dvar Torah: Joyful, Soulful, Prayer
By James Greene
Original music written for Exodus 15:17-18. Introductory text includes Hebrew words, translation, and the author's intention in writing the niggun and his own personal story associated with it. Audio mp3 included.
- How to: Video Demonstration of Lighting the Hanukah Menora and Singing the Blessings
By Rabbi Jeff Eisenstat
Listen and watch Rabbi Jeff Eisenstat as he demontrates lighting the Hanukah menorah. He's also thrown in "O' Hanukah, O' Hanukah" whose famous English words were written by Mordecai Kaplan's daughter, Judith Eisenstein.
- Lesson Plan: A Version Of Israel's Secular Shabbat -- Via A Song
By Rabbi Shai Gluskin
A Shabbat song that is secular? By studying Tirtzah Atar's "Shabbat Baboker" students of all ages learn about the experience of Shabbat by non-Orthodox Israelis with the help of a popular Israeli children's song.
- Lesson Plan: Yonatan Gefen's "How Is A Song Born?"
By Rabbi Shai Gluskin
Learn what Israeli singer/songwriter Yonatan Gefen has to say about what it is like to write a song. In a wonderful meditation on creativity, Gefen attempts to describe what songwriting feels like. Artists, no matter what age, will relate. Hebrew lyrics, translation, and questions for discussion included.
- Music: Contemporary Shalom Aleykhem
By Rabbi Steve Segar, Rabbi Shawn Zevit
New interpretation of traditional text sung to welcome the Sabbath.
- Music: Hassal Siddur Pesach
By JRF
Melody for the penultimate prayer in the Passover Haggadah, Hebrew text, transliteration, translation, and mp3 are provided.
- Music: High Holiday Liturgy
By Rabbi Alan LaPayover
Audio clips of the High Holy Day liturgy. Great for folks preparing to lead services for the Days of Awe.
- Music: Kiddush for Passover
By Shabbat Unplugged
Recording of the kiddush sanctification prayer said at the beginning of major holiday.
- Music: Lecha Dodi
By Elaine Moise
Setting of Lecha Dodi
- Music: Light and Dark
By Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton, Rabbi Margot L. Stein
Words and sheet music for three-part vocal harmony for a Hanukah song about differences between dark and light, good and evil. Music and Lyrics by Margot L. Stein. Arrangement by Elizabeth Bolton.
- Music: Lulay - Psalm 27
By Rabbi Margot L. Stein
A song from the closing verses of Psalm 27. Music and English translation written by Rabbi Margot Stein. Arranged and sung by MIRAJ. Audio file, Hebrew text, transliteration, and English translation are provided.
- Music: She Said "No"
By MIRAJ
Lyrics and MP3 of a Purim song about Vashti's famous rebellion and Esther's advocacy on behalf of the Jewish people.
- Music: The Omer Song
By Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael, Juliet I Spitzer, Rabbi Margot L. Stein
Fast, fun, song about counting the omer. Lyrics and mp3 included.
- RT Article: A New Reconstructionist Music Network
By Cantor Sharon Hordes
Answering the question of "Is there such a thing as Reconstructionist Music?" this article reports on the "Multi-Themed Sharing Session for JRF Muscians" workshop at the JRF Portland Convention of 2004.
- RT Article: Art and the Jewish Imagination: The Spiritual Power of Jewish Music
By Judith Kaplan Eisenstein
In her article, Eisenstein explores her spiritual connection to Judaism through music and chronicles the beginnings of transcendental Jewish melody.
- RT Article: Art and the Jewish Imagination: Welcoming the Artist into Jewish Life
By Liz Lerman
Liz Lerman chronicles how Jewish art used to exist on the fringes of Jewish communal life through, "mutual abandonment." However, the avant-garde has recently begun to move into the institutions of Jewish life, prompting Lerman to hope for a Jewish renaissance in a merging of art and community.
- RT Article: Two Reconstructionist Artists Rediscovered
By Lawrence Bush, Cheryl Chase Slutzky
Lionel S. Reiss: In the Footsteps of the Wandering Jew / Moshe Nathanson: The Reconstructionist Who Wrote "Hava Nagila"
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