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Grandparents Circle

April 10, 2016
By bethmordecai
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DAY 1380: Everybody is a Living Document, A Unique Torah

Reflecting on Friday's Disaster of Spiritual Care Training & Previewing Today's Workshops forInterfaith families Dear Hevreh, "Everybody is a living document." This is one of the key teachings from my training on Disaster Spiritual Care with the American Red Cross on Friday. In essence, this teaching emphasizes how everyone's unique story is a something important to listen to, how it is a "document" worthy of being "read." This is especially the case when working with someone who has just experienced trauma from a hurricane or a terrorist attack. While there is the story of the tragedy that we hear in the news, there are the stories we don't hear from survivors who collectively add their[...]

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Grandparents Circle

November 20, 2015
By bethmordecai
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DAY 1238: Understanding “Discomfort” for Interfaith Families

Reflection on working last weekend with interfaith families in Faithful Families & Grandparents Circle  Dear Hevreh, "Discomfort." If I had to name the single most intractable challenge for interfaith families to overcome, it would be "discomfort." In particular, it's the discomfort of Jewish parents in knowing their kids and especially their grandkids are being exposed to the traditions of other faiths, and it's the discomfort of those intermarried kids (many of whom are now parents) in engaging with a potentially contentious topic without the unilateral support of their family and clergy. The result of the discomfort for the former is that in order to remain in relationship with their families, the Jewish parents tread very carefully on the[...]

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