Shaarei Shamayim sponsors Shabbaton with Rabbis Arthur Waskow and Phyllis Berman

April 24-26, 2009

Join Congregation Shaarei Shamayim (CSS) for a soulful, evocative weekend with Rabbis Arthur Waskow and Phyllis Berman April 24-26, 2009. This promises to be an inspirational Shabbat of singing, learning, and exploring together in community.

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It is not necessary to be a member of CSS to attend the Shabbaton weekend. If you have questions or would like more information, please contact us at Shabbaton@shamayim.org

Rabbi Arthur Waskow has been one of the creators and leaders of Jewish Renewal since 1969. He founded and is the director of The Shalom Center, focusing on Interfaith work for justice, peace, and the healing of the earth. He was named one of the "Forward Fifty" by the Forward, a leading American Jewish newspaper. In 2007, Newsweek named him one of the fifty most influential American rabbis.
He co-authored with Sister Joan Chittister and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chisti, The Tent Of Abraham: Jewish, Christian, & Muslim Stories of Hope and Peace. He is a pioneer in Eco-Judaism through his publications as well as through the Green Menorah Covenant of The Shalom Center, which involves religious communities in addressing both personal and household energy issues as well as the political and economic structures surrounding them. He also taught the first course on Eco-Judaism given at a rabbinical seminary, at the Hebrew Union College in New York in 2008.

Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman is a leading Jewish-renewal liturgist, prayer leader, and story-teller. She was Director of the Summer Program of the Elat Chayyim Center for Healing and served on the board of ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. She is the co-author of Tales of Tikkun: New Jewish Stories to Heal the Wounded World and A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: The Jewish Life-Spiral as a Spiritual Journey. Her articles on new ceremonies for women and new midrash have appeared in Moment, Worlds of Jewish Prayer, and Tikkun.

Rabbi Berman founded and is the Director of the Riverside Language Program in New York, a unique intensive school for teaching English language and American culture to newly arrived adult immigrants and refugees. She co-authored a book of stories of the lives of immigrants, Getting into It, and several articles on the impact of American public policy on immigrants and refugees. She has been a key facilitator for the spiritual interfaith retreat group known as The Tent of Abraham, Hagar, and Sarah.

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Please click here to take a look at our 2007 shabbaton.