Rabbinic Director's Report: June 2010

Links FIRST ALEPH CANADA HIGH HOLYDAY RETREAT: HORNBY ISLAND, BC ALEPH Canada Announcement Letter ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal (International) Digital Downloads The Recession Impacts ALEPH Letter from the Board and Director of ALEPH Canada Our Archives: Summer Retreat: 2009 Director's Report: December 2009 Director's Report: May 2010

MISSION STATEMENT Jewish Renewal is a worldwide, trans-denominational movement grounded in Judaism's prophetic and mystical traditions, Jewish renewal carries forward Judaism's perpetual process of renewal. Jewish renewal seeks to bring creativity, relevance, joy, and an all-embracing awareness to spiritual practice, as a path to healing our hearts and finding balance and wholeness -tikkun halev. Jewish renewal acts to fully include all Jews and to respect all peoples. Jewish renewal helps to heal the world by promoting justice, freedom, responsibility, caring for all life and the earth that sustains all life – tikkun olam. ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal in Canada is an organization of those who are dedicated to reclaiming the Jewish people's sacred purpose of partnership with the Divine in the inseparable tasks of healing the world (tikkun olam) and healing our hearts (tikkun halev). ALEPH catalyses, supports, and strengthens the grassroots movement for Jewish renewal. ALEPH organizes and nurtures communities, develops leadership, creates new liturgy and other resources, and works for social and environmental justice.