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-Emergency Template: Congregant Check-in Call following natural disaster Template: 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 WorldWhy the Good Die Young

Prayers

A Prayer for these Fire-Filled DaysA Kaddish after Gun Violence: For When Humanity Fails ItselfA Psalm for Cities on Fire