The links listed below are only starting points. Enjoy these and explore - your family's experience is unique, with particular keywords and dreams. The constantly expanding world of internet-based Jewish resources awaits!1) Essences of the Journey
2) Between Parents and Children
3) The Power of Speech
4) The Caring Community
5) Shabbat: Living Holiness in Time
6) Finding Our Calling
7) When Life Ends
8) Meaning and Evil
9) Autonomy and Authority
Unit 1: Essences of the Journey
Jewish Music Suggestions:
1) Rachel Cole, "Sh'ma" (on Take My Hand) also available at cdfreedom.com
available at www.rachelcolemusic.com
2) Shirav, "Bedtime Shema" (on Deeper and Deeper) also available on itunes
available at www.shirav.net
3) Rick Recht, "You Shall Love" (on Shabbat Alive, 2001)
available at www.rickrecht.com
4) Debbie Friedman, "Sh'ma" (on Voices of the Spirit)
available at itunes.com
Other Readings:
1) "The Shema" by Alan Mintz"
from www.myjewishlearning.com
2) "Bedtime" by Rabbi Rona Shapiro
from www.ritualwell.org
Unit 2: Between Parents and Children
Jewish Music Suggestions:
1) Rabbi David Paskin, "Here I am" (on Miracles Every Day)
available at www.shirav.net
2) Rick Recht, "Yevarechecha" (on Shabbat Alive, 2001)
available at www.rickrecht.com
Other Readings:
1) "How to Show Respect for a Parent" by Rabbi Nachum Amsel
from www.myjewishlearning.com
2) "Caring for Elderly Parents" by Rabbi Elliot Dorff
from www.myjewishlearning.com
Unit 3: The Power of Speech
Jewish Music Suggestions:
1) Rabbi David Paskin, "Elokai N'tzor" (on Miracles Every Day)
available at www.shirav.net
2) Rick Recht, "Yihiyeh Shalom" (on Tov)
available at www.rickrecht.com
Other Readings:
1) "The Dust of Lashon Hara" by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
from www.myjewishlearning.com
2) "Truth and Lies in the Jewish Tradition" by Rabbi Louis Jacobs
from www.myjewishlearning.com
3) "Hebrew as the Language of Jewish Prayer" by Rabbi Reuven Hammer
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Prayer" section)
Unit 4: The Caring Community
Jewish Music Suggestions:
1) Shirav, "Olam Chesed Yibaneh" (on Deeper and Deeper)
available at itunes.com
2) Rick Recht, "Al Shlosha" (on Ruach 5763)
available at itunes.com
3) Rick Recht, "Shalom Ba'Olam" (on Tov)
available at itunes.com
Other Readings:
1) "Tikkun Olam in Contemporary Jewish Thought" by Lawrence Fine
from www.myjewishlearning.com
2) "Acts of Loving-Kindness" by Rabbi Sara Paasche-Orlow
from www.myjewishlearning.com
Unit 5: Shabbat - Living Holiness in Time
Jewish Music Suggestions:
1) Rick Recht, "Lecha Dodi" (on Shabbat Alive - 2001)
available at www.rickrecht.com
2) Rabbi David Paskin, "Shabbos" (on Give a Little Back)
available at www.shirav.net
3) Craig Taubman, "Romemu" (on Friday Night Live)
available at itunes.com
Other Readings:
1) "Shabbat as a Sanctuary in Time" by Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Daily Life" section)
2) "Shabbat as Preview of the Perfected World" by Rabbi Theodore Friedman
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Daily Life" section)
Unit 6: Finding Our Calling
Jewish Music Suggestions:
1) Shirav, "Sacred Journey" (on HaMakom)
available at itunes.com
Other Readings:
1) "The Free Will Problem: Modern Solutions" by Elie Jesner
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Ideas & Belief" section)
2) "Be Yourself " by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Torah Commentary" section)
Unit 7: When Life Ends
Jewish Music Suggestions:
1) The entire Album "HaMakom" by Shirav
available at itunes.com
Other Readings:
1) "How to Help Children of Different Ages Cope with a Death" by Dr. Earl Grollman
from www.associated.org
2) "How to Make a Shiva Call" by Ron Wolfson
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Death & Mourning" section)
3) "Writing and Reading Ethical Wills" by Rabbi Jack Riemer
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Death & Mourning" section)
4) "Jewish Tradition and the Lifecycle" by Rela M. Geffen
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Lifecycles" section)
Unit 8: Meaning and Evil
Other Readings:
1) "Biblical and Rabbinic Responses to Suffering" by Rabbi Louis Jacobs
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Suffering and Evil" section)
2) "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" by Rabbi Harold Kushner
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Suffering and Evil" section)
Unit 9: Autonomy and Authority
Other Readings:
1) "Jewish Ethics Confronts Modernity" by Prof. Menachem Kellner
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Ethical Behavior" section)
2) "Community, Controversy, & Cooperation" by Rabbi Louis Jacobs
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Home and Community" section)
3) "Naming Names" by Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Commentaries" section)
4) "Beginning with the Individual" by Rabbi Shimon Felix
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Commentaries" section)
5) "The Personal is Communal" by Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin
from www.myjewishlearning.com (in the "Lifecycles" section)
