Inspired
by a passage from the Mishnah - "Without bread there is no
Torah; without Torah there is no bread" - Bread and Torah
is a learning project and non-profit baking enterprise that seeks
to provide the community and the region with a variety of educational
offerings encompassing Jewish studies, arts, crafts, baking and cooking,
nutrition and eating practices, health and wellness, creativity and
change.
Bread
and Torah is
- A
learning project offering one-day workshops, weekend retreats,
scribal arts demonstration and instruction, baking and cooking lessons,
and after-school programs
- Slice
of Heaven Breads (brochure), a non-profit, co-operative bakery that utilizes
both community volunteers and individuals referred for employment
by agencies such as VESID
- A
workshop for traditional scribal arts (brochure), including the Community Torah Project.
During the past months, the Bread and Torah project has been featured in several newspaper and magazine articles-
- January 2, 2008 on-line article on Rabbi Linda's scribal work published by the Jewish Daily Forward
- Fall 2007 issue of the Saratoga Living magazine - article(p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7) on spiritual crafts
- July 18, 2007 article in the Times Union on the sharing of bread knowledge
- March 24, 2007 article in the Times Union on the skills needed to be a scribe
- March 8, 2007 article(p1, p2) in the Jewish World on Rabbi Linda's completion of the megillah of Esther
- February 4, 2007 article(p1, p2) in The Sunday Gazette on Rabbi Linda's scribal work
- January 4, 2007 article(p1, p2) in the Jewish World on Rabbi Jonathan's baking project
- September 30, 2006 article in the Times Union on Rabbi Jonathan's baking project
Rabbis
Linda Motzkin and Jonathan Rubenstein have been co-rabbis of Temple
Sinai in Saratoga Springs, NY, since 1986, following their ordination
from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.
Rabbi Linda is the author of the four volume Adult Hebrew curriculum published by the Union for Reform Judaism, the textbooks Aleph Isn't Tough, Aleph Isn't Enough, Bet is for B'reishit and Tav is for Torah. She also serves as part-time Jewish Chaplain at Skidmore College and is currently studying the craft, methods and materials of traditional Jewish scribal arts. She completed writing megilat esther - a scroll of Esther - for Temple Sinai in March, 2007 and has begun writing a sefer Torah on parchment made from local deerskin
Rabbi
Jonathan is a baker and the founder of Slice
of Heaven Breads, as well as part-time Director of Pastoral
Care at Four Winds-Saratoga, a private psychiatric hospital. He also
serves on the Board of Saratoga Care (the Saratoga Hospital and Nursing
Home).
Rabbis
Linda and Jonathan are members of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the United
Jewish Communities and are active in many local organizations.
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