ShefaNetwork.org: The Conservative/Masorti Movement
Dreaming from Within
MultiMedia Torah
- Two-Minute Koach Torah Podcasts
- The JTS Podcast Page
- The Ziegler Podcast Page
- The USCJ Audio/Visual Page
Rabbi Eli Garfinkel (podcast) rabbipod.org
Roundtable: "Three Movements, One Future" featuring Chancellor Eisen, Rabbi David Ellenson (President of HUC-JIR), and Richard Joel (President of YU)
Rabbi Menachem Creditor:
- "Living a Mythic Life" series, Feb-July, 2008
- "Dynamic Judaism" series, Jan-May, 2009
- Sacred Embrace: audio, handout, essay
Rabbi David Levy (podcast) [audio]
Rabbi Harold Kushner: What Does It Mean to be a Conservative Jew? [video] [audio]
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Divrei Torah [audio] // Lunch & Learn (podcast) [audio]
Rabbi Elliot Dorf on Halachah [video] [audio]
Reb Mimi Feigelson (podcast) [audio]
Rabbi Kassel Abelson: The Commmittee on Jewish Law and Standards [video] [audio]
Online Books/Readers
These are online excerpts of books which provide deeper explorations than typical online resources. So while holding a sefer/book in your hands and sharing the learning with someone else is better than reading alone, these links might be good diving boards for further spiritual growth.
- For the Love of God and People (Rabbi Elliot Dorff)
- Rereading the Rabbis: A Woman's Voice (Rabbi Judith Hauptman)
- Conservative Judaism & Denominationalism (Rabbi Menachem Creditor)
- Rethinking Modern Judaism (Chancellor Arnold Eisen)
- The Prophets (Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel)
- Conservative Judaism (Rabbi Neil Gillman)
- Etz Hayim Study Companion (edited by Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal)
- Seminary Addresses and Other Papers (Rabbi Solomon Schechter)
- The Bedside Torah (Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson)
- Women who Would be Rabbis (Dr. Pamela Nadell)
- Dynamic Judaism (Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan)
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