Background
Berman, Phyllis Ocean was born on December 20, 1942 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Charles Solomon and Beatrice Brown Berman.
( A new book that celebrates the Jewish life-spiral, fusi...)
A new book that celebrates the Jewish life-spiral, fusing ancient teachings of the Bible and rabbis with new rituals for the twenty-first century More than twenty years ago, Arthur Ocean Waskow published a book, Seasons of Our Joy, that followed the flow of Jewish festivals through the year. It became a classic. Now, in A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven, Rabbi Waskow and his wife, Phyllis Ocean Berman, have brought us a book for the other great cycle of Jewish life--from birth to death. They have woven handbook and history, spiritual guide and their own personal experience, ancient ceremonies and those brought forward by Jewish women today, into the single pattern of a well-lived life--a unity. The book moves from a new "covenant of washing"--the ritual act of parents washing a newborn daughter's feet to celebrate her arrival--to an examination of how k'tubot, or marriage contracts, could be revised to affirm the commitments partners today need to make with each other, to ceremonies that celebrate the transformations of midlife, to enriching the rituals of grief in order to walk mourners through their own next spiral in the path of their lives.
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(Written by two leaders of the Jewish Renewal movement, th...)
Written by two leaders of the Jewish Renewal movement, these interpretive stories address important issues such as spirituality, tyranny, and feminism.
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director Rabbi adult education educator
Berman, Phyllis Ocean was born on December 20, 1942 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Charles Solomon and Beatrice Brown Berman.
Bachelor in English and Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1964. Master of Arts in Literature and Education, City University of New York, 1968. Master of Education in Teachers English to Speakers Other Languages, Columbia University, 1978.
Teacher trainer Counseling Learning Institutes, since 1978. Founding director Riverside Language Program, New York City, since 1979. Director summer program Elat Chayyim Spiritual Retreat Center, Accord, 1992—2003.
Chair board Prai Or Religious Fellowship, Philadelphia, 1985—1993. Secretary board ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, Philadelphia, 1993—2002.
( A new book that celebrates the Jewish life-spiral, fusi...)
(Written by two leaders of the Jewish Renewal movement, th...)
Married E. Fred Sher, July 31, 1966 (divorced May 1985). Children: Joshua Simon Sher, Morissa Nili Sher. Married Arthur Ocean Waskow, June 22, 1986.