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Assisted
Gazing Eastward
A lecture series explores political issues related to Tibet
and Judaism's connection to Eastern spirituality.
Judaism in search of spiritual fulfill- .
ment, Lew believes that the answers are
Special to The Jewish News
in Judaism, but people sometimes need
aids — like meditation — to intensify
ardly a week goes by that
their relationship to Judaism.
Rabbi Alan Lew isn't lead-
"Meditation really opens people to
ing a Zen meditation work-
Judaism. That was the experience of my
shop for several dozen peo-
life and of the hundreds of people I've
ple in San Francisco, where he lives.
taught. It opens them to the spiritual
In the last several years, Lew, an
richness of their own tradi-
ordained Conservative rabbi
don in a way that doesn't
and one-time director of the
occur
spontaneously any-
Berkeley Zen Center, has
more," he said.
experienced a marked rise in
Temple Israel Director of
requests for his workshops and
Education Fran Pearlman sees
talks, both in the Bay Area
the series as "another way for
and nationwide, an increase
adults to reconnect with their
that some see as part of a larg-
Judaism.
er movement among Jews
"We are not talking about
toward Eastern religion such
Zen buff Rabbi
people
who are in danger of
as Zen Buddhism.
Alan Lew says Jews
losing
their
Judaism, but
"Over the past 20 or 30
are increasingly
looking
for
other
ways to
years, there has been a recogni- drawn to Eastern
enrich
their
Judaism,"
she
don that Judaism is overbal-
spirituality.
said.
anced toward the external,
Chiten, director and pro-
with things like the Holocaust
ducer of the new film The
and the foundation of the
Jew and the Lotus, will visit
State of Israel. These things
Detroit for a screening of the
are important, but they also
film and a discussion. Her
caused us to neglect our inter-
latest movie is based on the
nal lives, and that neglect has
bestselling book of the same
come back to haunt us. We
name by Rodger Kamenetz, a
have souls, and we haven't
writer and English professor
tended them," Lew said.
Filmmaker Laurel who chronicled a 1990 meet-
On Tuesday, Sept. 8, Lew
Chiten based her ing between the Dalai Lama
will discuss "What I Learned
latest film on one of Tibet and a group of rab-
From Buddhism Can Save
bis who were meant to share
of Rodger
Judaism" at. the Kahn Jewish
the "secret of spiritual sur-
Kamenetz's
books.
Community Center in West
vival
in exile."
Bloomfield as he kicks off a
"We are now entering a
three-part lecture series end-
new stage in Judaism, a time
tied "Judaism Faces East."
of crisis but also a time of
Sponsored by the Jewish
renewal. The old foundations,
Community Center of
whether
of Reform Judaism
Metropolitan Detroit, Temple
on
the
one
end or of
Israel and The Jewish News,
Orthodoxy
on the other, have
the series continues Oct. 22 at
been
shaken.
We are building
the United Artists Theatre in
(tabernacle)
mishkan
a
new
Commerce Township with
and we have so many fine
Author Rodger
filmmaker Laurel Chiten and
Kamenetz will be materials to draw on. We are
on Nov. 19 at Temple Israel
looking for the light in the
with author Rodger Kamenetz. in town Nov. 19
to
discuss
the
old Kabbalah, but also in the
Lew is the spiritual leader of
Jewish
connection
new language of experience,"
Congregation Beth Shalom in
to
Eastern
religious
Kamenetz writes in his latest
San Francisco, but before his
tradition.
book, Stalking Elijah:
ordination at the Jewish
Adventures
with Today's Jewish
Theological Seminary in New
Mystical Masters.
York, he was a serious student of Zen
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