Rabbi Shoni Labowitz from Miraculous Living
Book Zoom Meetings 2nd Mondays, 7 - 8:30 PM April - August 2026
New participants are always welcome! We read a few chapters each month.
From the first Asian American to be ordained as a rabbi, a stirring account of one
woman’s journey from feeling like an outsider to becoming one of the most
admired religious leaders in the world.
Angela Buchdahl was born in Seoul, the daughter of a Korean Buddhist mother
and Jewish American father. Profoundly spiritual from a young age, by sixteen she
felt the first stirrings to become a rabbi. Despite the naysayers and periods of
self-doubt—Would a mixed-race woman ever be seen as authentically Jewish or
chosen to lead a congregation? — She stayed the course, which took her first to
Yale, then to rabbinical school, and finally to the pulpit of one of the largest, most
influential congregations in the world.
If you are new, please RSVP with your name and email to TCJewishRenewal@gmail.com for the Zoom link.

Twin Cities Jewish Renewal Community(TCJRC) Jewish Spiritual Book Meeting
God is Here: Reimagining the Divine by Toba Spitzer |March 2022).
Toba Spitzer's God Is Here is a transformative exploration of the idea of God, offering new paths to experiencing the realm of the sacred.
Most of us are hungry for a system of meaning to make sense of our lives, yet traditional religion too often leaves those seeking spiritual sustenance unsatisfied. Rabbi Toba Spitzer understands this problem firsthand
and knows that too often it is traditional ideas of the deity―he's too big, too impersonal, and too unbelievable―that get in the way. In God Is Here, Spitzer argues that whether we believe in God or fervently disbelieve, what we are actually disagreeing about is not God at all, but a metaphor of a Big Powerful Person that limits our understanding and our spiritual lives.
Please RSVP with your name and email to TCJewishRenewal@gmail.com for the Zoom link as we begin to discuss, God is here Reimagining the Divine.
Our plan is to meet on Zoom the second Sunday of the month and read the following chapters:
October 12 - Chapters 1 - 3
November 9 - Chapters 4 and 5
Change to first Sunday, December 7 so as not to conflict with Chanukah – Read Chapters 6 and 7
January 11- Chapters 8 and 9
February 8 – Chapter 10 to completion
Book List Compiled by Bob Rubinyi