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Guest Blog: Tragic Violence Awakens the Orthodox Community
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The brutal murder and dismemberment just a few weeks ago of 9-year-old Leiby Kletzky, of blessed memory, a member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidic sect in ...
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Good News for New Year 5777
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As I wish blessings in the New Year to Jewish friends and colleagues, there is also good news to celebrate.
There is finally a solution to the problem of the ...
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EBooks
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We are offering some of our resources for faith communities as e-books!
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Sermon on Domestic Violence
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by Rabbi Cindy G. Enger, Former Director of the Jewish Program
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Rabbi Lisa Gelber on Human Trafficking
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Rabbi Gelber writes for American Jewish World Service using the opening phrase of Parashat Re'eh - "Re'eh - See, I place before you this day a blessing and a ...
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Reflection on Human Trafficking
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by Gail Mengel with Commentaries by Salma Abugideiri and Rabbi Mark Dratch
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What Religious Leaders Can Do to Respond to Sexual and Domestic Violence
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Spotlight: A Movie Worth Discussing
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FaithTrust Institute Offers a Multi-Faith Discussion Guide for SPOTLIGHT:
The film offers a wonderful opportunity for faith communities to openly discuss the ...
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"Same Old, Same Old. . ."
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We have become almost numb to the steady stream of disclosures of child sexual abuse: the Roman Catholic experiences continue even with serious efforts to ...
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Finitude
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Passover Reflection 2010, by Rabbi Julie Schwartz, Temple Emanu-El, Atlanta, GA
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From Darkness to Light: Passover
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Passover is the Jewish holiday about the passage from darkness to light, from slavery to freedom.
In remembering the Exodus story of the liberation of the ...
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GUEST BLOG: Happy New Year from Rabbi Mark Dratch
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A Reflection for Rosh Hashanah:
There is an old Jewish blessing offered as the New Year arrives: “May the old year and its troubles end, and the new year ...
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Meaningful Voices Book Club Selection for March: Uncovered
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UNCOVERED: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home by Leah Lax is our March online book choice! Join us on March 2, 2016 at 5:30 pm PT/8:30 pm ET.
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The Power of the Rabbinate: Opportunities for Education and Awareness in Combating Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community
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by Rabbi Lisa B. Gelber
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High Holy Days, 5773
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These are the “Days of Awe” in the Jewish tradition. We poorly translate them as the “High Holidays” or with a little more panache, “High Holy Days.” But ...
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Pesach Reflection 2011
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by Rabbi Cindy G. Enger
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Jewish Concepts and Values for Helping Victims and Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
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by Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Ph.D.
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Rabbi Elliot Dorff, Rabbi Mark Dratch Make Top 50 Influential American Rabbis List
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FaithTrust Institute board secretary and colleague in the top 50
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The Work of Tikkun Olam: Repairing and Restoring the World
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There are two important stories this week within the Orthodox Jewish community in the U.S. The first is the conviction of Nechemya Weberman, a Hasidic Jew in ...
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Hanukkah Reflection by Rabbi Lisa Gelber
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A disagreement emerged between the houses of Shammai and Hillel regarding how to light the Hanukkah Menorah. Beit Shammai maintained that one should light ...
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GUEST BLOG: "I Will Survive": A Celebration for a New Year
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I still remember the energy surging through my body that New Year's Eve as the words of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive echoed through the room. Sadness mixed ...
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Reflection: A Different Take on Hanukkah
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The eight day Festival of Hanukkah begins on the 25th day of Kislev, Sunday evening 12/06/15. The holiday commemorates the improbable Maccabean victory ...
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Forgiveness and the Jewish High Holy Days
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by Marcia Cohn Spiegel, M.A.
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The Winter Holidays for Battered Women
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by Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune
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Book Club: Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home by Leah Lax
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Spotlight Discussion Guide
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Reflection: Shiphrah and Puah, the Two Midwives of Passover Faith and Freedom
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The weeklong Jewish festival of Passover will be observed this month, beginning at sunset on April 22nd. Passover has many descriptive names, including ‘The ...
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High Holy Days Reflection: A New Year . . . Our Work Continues
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by Rabbi Mark Dratch
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Rabbi Cindy Enger Named New Director of Rabbinic Placement by Central Conference of American Rabbis
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FaithTrust Institute is delighted to share the news that our colleague Rabbi Cindy Enger has been named Director of Rabbinic Placement with Central Conference ...
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Chanukah Reflection 2010
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by Rabbi Julie Schwartz