Change Happens: Owning the Jewish Holidays in a Reconstructionist Tradition
Rabbi Lewart opens the doors to Jewish life with meaning, offering simple and powerful tools you can use to help you embrace the celebration of tradition, adapt holidays for yourself and your family, and even create new rituals around the holidays while finding fresh spiritual meaning along the way. --Rabbi Karen Fox, Wilshire Boulevard TempleI have been searching for ways to merge formal Jewish learning with experiential Jewish life. Change Happens is the threshold for personal, family, and community yearly cycle understanding and participation. Rabbi Sheryl Lewart has created a contemporary approach that will enable learners to engage in the celebration of the Jewish year like never before. Belonging to a people that experiences these events will truly make us achieve a deeper commitment to our own spirituality --Rabbi Jeff Eisenstat, Founding Director Reconstructionist Summer Camp & Youth Movement, Philadelphia, PAKol ha-kavod (kudos) to Rabbi Sheryl Lewart for writing this book filled with creative insights on the Jewish holidays. Rabbi Lewart shares a wealth of holiday stories, memories, reflections, prayers and customs in a user-friendly format. I commend her work not only for Reconstructionist Jews, but for all those who seek to infuse new meaning into their Shabbat and holiday celebrations. Change Happens will be a welcome addition to the homes and libraries of parents, grandparents, college students, newly- married couples, and other readers and learners. It will certainly occupy a place of honor on my own bookshelf. --Rabbi Mark S. Diamond, Executive Vice President, The Board of Rabbis of Southern California