Book Conversation with Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Sunday, January 10, 2021

7:30 – 9:00 PM on Zoom (Link sent in congregational emails)

Join Rabbi Richman and Rabbi Arthur Waskow for a book conversation about Rabbi Waskow’s newest book: Dancing in God’s Earthquake: The Coming Transformation of Religion. The book is a distillation and harvest of Rabbi Waskow’s 65-year overlapping career(s) as historian, political activist, creative Jewish learner/teacher, and multireligious seeker. “Like any good harvest,” he says, “it draws on the past while intending to feed the future.” Rabbi Waskow will share a few key stories from the book; then there will be breakout small groups to discuss these ideas; then return to the large group for comments and questions. The conversation will be rich and deep if the book is read beforehand. If you would like to receive a personally inscribed copy in time to read it for the conversation, please send an email to Rabbi Phyllis Berman, specifying the “inscriptee,” your delivery method (pick-up in Mt. Airy, local delivery, or mailed), and your address. Payment of $30 for the book can be mailed to or dropped off at The Shalom Center, 6711 Lincoln Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19119.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow founded (1983) and directs The Shalom Center, a prophetic voice in Jewish, multireligious, and American life. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and has been a legislative assistant in the US House of Representatives, co-founding Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, a leader of the struggle to end the US war against Vietnam, co-author of “A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority, pioneer in creating theology, liturgy, practice, and activism of Eco-Judaism, author of the original Freedom Seder, Seasons of Our Joy, and 25 other books before Dancing in God’s Earthquake. He has been arrested about 27 times in protests against racism, economic inequality, Soviet oppression of Jews, the US wars against Vietnam and Iraq, and US inaction about the climate crisis.

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