SAJ 100 Media Roundup
Read through SAJ's recent media highlights as we celebrate our 100th year anniversary.
See @JudithKaplan1922 Stories on Instagram
In 1922, following passage of the 19th amendment and at the beginning of the Jazz Age, a NYC tween made history as the first GIRL to become bat mitzvah. Follow her remarkable story at @JudithKaplan1922! Entry: February 14, 1922 View this…
Reflection by Abraham Clott, SAJ 100 Years Co-Chair
Abe Clott has been an active member since joining SAJ in 1994. This is the second installment of our Reflection Series for SAJ 100 Years. If you would like to contribute to this series, please email saj100@saj.nyc. Some Early Personal SAJ…
From the SAJ 100 Years Co-Chairs: A Judaism That Stands For All
100 years – a centennial. A once in a lifetime landmark. 2022 heralds the SAJ’s completion of one century’s cycle and the beginning of the next. We are privileged to stand at this moment, and feel ourselves as living links in…
SAJ 100 Years Kick-Off Weekend includes SAJ Centennial Shabbat, Singing Century
100 years ago, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan founded the Society for the Advancement of Judaism (SAJ), the birthplace of the Reconstructionist movement. As we mark our 100th anniversary, we celebrate the creativity, intellectual inquiry, and social activism forged in 1922, still the…
SAJ 100 Years Event Summary & Links
SAJ Centennial Shabbat Kick OffSaturday, January 29Tish by Professor Deborah Dash Moore; Guest remarks by Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Congressman Jerry Nadler, Comptroller Brad Lander, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, and City Council Member Gale Brewer “A Singing Congregation”: A Century of…
Radical Love, Rosh HaShanah Day 2
Michael Davidson Much of what I am going to say was captured long ago by a sage of the Ewe people of Ghana. When night or day approach, do we know what is going to happen to us on either…
Radical Love, Rosh Hashanah Talk 2018
Donna Katzin Seventeen years ago today – 9-11-2001 – I wake up at 6:30 a.m. in Tucson to participate in a socially responsible investment conference. As I get dressed, I turn on the TV, and see the image of a…
Whispers of Kadosh: Listening for the Holy A Kavanah for Rosh Hashanah
Liz Emens A friend I admire once told me that, when she goes through her days, she can hear a whisper that says “kadosh, kadosh, kadosh”—holy, holy, holy—in the everyday sounds around her. On a good day, I can hear…
Malchuyot (Kingship) 2017
Written and presented by Lester Shane There is a moment in the theatre that always thrills me. The house lights go down. It is completely dark and absolutely silent. It is a moment of infinite possibility. Then the curtain goes…