Leadership in a Time of Crisis: Resources for Rabbis

Reflections

When the Rabbi Feels Trauma in CCAR’s Journal of Reform Judaism (Fall 2019)By Rabbi Paul Kipnes

So That’s What Rabbis Do: A Rabbinic Student Reflects on a Synagogue’s Fire Response

By (then Rabbinic Student, now) Rabbi Elana Nemitoff-Bresler

After the Fires: Celebrating Thanksgiving When Homes are Lost or Damaged

By Sally Weber MSW and Rabbi Paul Kipnes

How To’s

Rabbi’s Disaster To Do List: 10 Community-Restoring Actions from the SoCal Fires

By Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Rabbi Julia Weisz

Or Ami Outreach Calls Templates (Emergency and non-Emergency)

Template: Congregant Check-in Call Non-EmergencyTemplate: Congregant Check-in Call following natural disasterTemplate: Evacuation Calls (Response Form)Template: Non-Emergency Check-In Call (Response Form)

Responding to the Ventura Fires with Shabbat Dinner for 120

With Rabbi Lisa Hochberg-Miller and Rabbi Paul Kipnes

Communicating with the Community

Dear URJ Camp Newman friend: When the Sadness is so Deep: After Fires Burned Down Camp Newman Buildings

By Paul Kipnes

Open Letter to Camp Newman Teens, Staff and Alumni from Rabbi Paul (long)

Sermons

Rabbi, Do You Have a Faith That Gets You Through?

God Damn You, God! Taking God to Task in a Messed Up World

Why the Good Die Young

Prayers

A Prayer for these Fire-Filled Days

A Kaddish after Gun Violence: For When Humanity Fails Itself

A Psalm for Cities on Fire