Pardes Levavot & Friends
In the News
- Sounds of Hope
- Longmont Daily Times-Call, September 14, 2007
Teens lead musical worship at Renewal congregation
The musicians at Pardes Levavot, a Jewish Renewal congregation, have
spent the past few weeks preparing the music for the High Holy Days of
Rosh Hashanah, which began Sept. 12, and Yom Kippur on Sept. 21.
- Sacred journeys
- Longmont Daily Times-Call, May 11, 2007
Pilgrimages reconnect and awaken beliefs and traditions
Miriam Pollack of Boulder recently returned from Israel, and though
she's been there six times before, she said this trip was different.
- Now in his 80s,
a maverick rabbi remains the soul of Jewish Renewal
- JTA - The Global News Service of the Jewish People, February 6, 2007
Reb Zalman, as he's known to his followers, is the heart and
spiritual engine of Jewish Renewal. He created the movement in the
early 1970s, fusing the mystical traditions of his Lubavitch background
with the sensibilities of the modern world in an effort to revitalize a
synagogue practice he found stultifying. Pray from the heart, he exhorted
people. Don't be spiritually lazy.
- Renewal wants to keep
same spirit while standardizing rabbis training
- JTA - The Global News Service of the Jewish People, January 15, 2007
Whereas other seminaries have carefully structured five-year rabbinic
programs six if a preparatory year is required an Aleph course can
take from two to 10 years or more. Few students are full-time; most are
older and cannot leave family and career behind to attend a traditional
seminary.
- Kindling The Chanukah Lights
- Longmont Daily Times-Call, December 16, 2006
- Family Circle
- Longmont Daily Times-Call, October 27, 2006
Synagogue puts adults, children on parallel faith paths
Founded on the Torah principle "V'Shinantam l'vanecha - and you
shall teach your children" the Circle of Family Education program at
Congregation Pardes Levavot takes adults and children on parallel paths
to an understanding of Judaism.
- Go west, young seeker
- Daily Camera, July 8, 2006
Christianity, Judaism offer rich meditative traditions
While the ancient Jewish practice of Kabbalah has garnered attention
in recent years, as celebrities such as Madonna have embraced it,
Judaism also includes other meditative practices. Rabbi Nadya Gross,
who with her husband, Victor, serves the Jewish Renewal Congregation,
Pardes Levavot, leads a weekly chant group.
- Science and Religion Face Off
- Denver Post, November 20, 2005
The two really aren't incompatible
With controversies raging over the teaching of intelligent design in
the classroom, people on opposite sides of the debate seem to agree on one
thing: The answer is "no." They frame the issue in black-and-white terms,
leaving no room for nuance and ambiguity. In doing so, they implacably
pit religion and science against each other, harming both.
- Remembering the dead
- Daily Camera, October 1, 2005
All Souls' Day event reaches beyond Christianity
Theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel famously wrote that death helps
people understand life. "In our tradition, there's a notion that life
is a journey and death is the homecoming," says Rabbi Nadya Gross of
Pardes Levavot, a Jewish Renewal congregation in Gunbarrel.
- Jewish, Muslim congregations exploring common threads
- Denver Post, October 13, 2005
For a service celebrating the second day of the Jewish New
Year, it was an unusual choice of music: a Sufi Muslim chant with lyrics
in Hebrew and Arabic:
"Allah Hu Allah la illah ha il Allah Elohim Echad Elohim Gadol"
- An interfaith surprise
- Daily Camera, October 1, 2005
People of many faiths will find reason to observe traditions
this month
Some are calling it "God's October Surprise." Today marks the
beginning of a month in which sacred events in the calendars of several
religious traditions occur at the same time. In the Jewish tradition,
the lunar month of Tishrei, which includes the High Holy Days begins
Monday and Tuesday, as does the lunar month of Ramadan,the holiest period
of the Islamic Year.
- A Confluence of the
Sacred
- Boulder Weekly, September 29, 2005
Pardes Levavot brings Jews, Christians and Muslims together
to pray.
It's not often that Jews, Christians and Muslims, spiritual children of
fabled biblical patriarch Abraham, sit down to pray together. It's rarer
still when the doors to the synagogue, church or mosque are thrown open to
welcome people of non-Abrahamic faiths — Buddhists, Hindus, Wiccans.
- Wise Guy, Wise Man
- HAARETZ.com, October 2, 2005
When I first heard about Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi known as
Reb Zalman or just plain Zalman by his students and friends I was a
yeshiva high-school student, and the story being told was one of the
Jewish world's equivalents of an urban legend: awesomely outlandish,
yet so perfect it just had to be true.
- Jewish Renewal
- PBS, September 30, 2005
As the Jewish High Holidays begin this coming week, we note a growing
movement within American Judaism that recalls the tendency in most faiths
for worshippers over the years to move back and forth between the head
and the heart -- theology and doctrine on one side, spiritual fervor on
the other.
- Kabbalah: Feeling The Spirit
Of Prayer
- Newsweek, August 29, 2005
This rabbi extols the joy of experiencing an intimate connection
to the Almighty.
"How much time have you spent in the presence of God?" Rabbi Zalman
Schachter-Shalomi's tone is both gentle and disarmingly direct as he
questions participants at a retreat in Johnstown, Pa.
- Souls, rebellion and TiVo
- The Boulder Daily Camera, June 11, 2005
An interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of the
Jewish Renewal movement.
Less than a year after retiring from his World Wisdom chair at Naropa
University, 81-year-old Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is as busy as ever.
- Filling the Seder Plates
- The Oregonian, April 23, 2005
The traditional symbols for the Passover meal undergo changes to
make room for new causes.
For small groups of Jews around the country, symbols used at the meal
have in recent years become yet another way of expressing individuality
and promoting causes.
- Spirit wisdom
- Boulder Weekly, August 12, 2004
Soul Memory Discovery looks at past lives to answer the
biggest questions of this lifetime.
When most people hear the word reincarnation, they think of Buddhism
and Hinduism. Both spiritual traditions speak of a cycle of death and
rebirth, which a soul finally escapes when it achieves enlightenment. It
might come as a surprise for many that Judaism also speaks of past lives
and of rebirth.
- A Faithful Friendship
- The Boulder Daily Camera, July 24, 2004
Lutheran and Jewish congregations share space and fellowship.
"It was like something that had been prepared, but nobody knew it
yet," Nadya says. "It was the fulfillment of something I was longing
for all my life, but didn't know how to name it," Linda says.
- Boulder Colorado Jewish Renewal
Community a Pioneer in Deep Ecumenism
- ALEPH news release, May 25, 2004
Pardes Levavot (Orchard of Hearts), a Jewish Renewal community led
by Rabbis Nadya and Victor Gross, is working to transform the lives of
its congregants through a unique and compelling partnership with Shepherd
of the Hills Lutheran Church.
- Paradigm Shift
- Boulder Weekly, May 20, 2004
Jewish, Lutheran congregations join spiritual forces.
In Boulder, two congregations are stepping beyond historical enmity in
search not just of common ground, but of real community. The congregations
of Pardes Levavot, a Jewish Renewal community in its first year, and
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church have joined together in what they
call "deep ecumenism" to share sacred space and create what they refer
to as a new paradigm in the relationship between Jews and Christians.
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