Beyt Tikkun Synagogue

The Beyt Tikkun Synagogue is a Jewish Renewal congregation that was founded in 1996 by Rabbi Michael Lerner.cite web |url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/4169/edition_id/75/format/html/displaystory.html |title=Controversial editor : Tikkun's Lerner starts S.F. synagogue |first=Leslie |last=Katz |publisher=j. |date=August 2, 1996 |accessdate=2008-02-06 ] cite web |url=http://www.tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/bio |title=Biographical Notes on Rabbi Lerner |publisher="Tikkun" |accessdate=2008-02-06 ] Beyt Tikkun Synagogue is located in San Francisco and loosely affiliated with Lerner's "Tikkun" magazine. It describes itself as a "hallachic community bound by Jewish law".cite web |url=http://www.beyttikkun.org/fmd/files/FoundingPerspective.pdf |title=Founding Perspective |publisher=Beyt Tikkun |accessdate=2008-02-06 ]

Beyt Tikkun found itself in the middle of a controversy in 2005 when it invited anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to speak during Yom Kippur services. [cite web |url=http://www.forward.com/articles/2021/ |title=Filling the Pews With High-wattage Guests |publisher="The Forward" |date=October 7, 2005 |accessdate=2008-02-06 ] [cite web |url=http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rabbi_mi_051017_what_cindy_sheehan_s.htm |title=What Cindy Sheehan Said on Yom Kippur at Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in S.F. |first=Michael |last=Lerner |authorlink=Michael Lerner (rabbi) |publisher=OpEdNews.com |date=October 17, 2005 |accessdate=2008-02-06 ] [cite web |url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/27355/edition_id/523/format/html/displaystory.html |title=Anti-war activist speaks out at Beyt Tikkun |publisher="j." |date=October 21, 2005 |accessdate=2008-02-06 ] [cite web |url=http://www.forward.com/articles/anti-war-activist-addresses-congregation/ |title=Anti-war Activist Addresses Congregation |first=Josh |last=Richman |publisher="The Forward" |date=October 21, 2005 |accessdate=2008-02-06 ] Sheehan spoke during Yom Kippur services again in 2007. [cite web |url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00457.htm |title=Cindy Sheehan's Yom Kippur Talk at Rabbi Michael Lerner's Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in S.F. |first=Cindy |last=Sheehan |authorlink=Cindy Sheehan |publisher=Scoop |date=22 September 2007 |accessdate=2008-02-06 ]

Beyt Tikkun has no building of its owncite web |url=http://www.beyttikkun.org/index.php?topic=faq |title=Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=Beyt Tikkun |accessdate=2008-02-06 ] and the "San Francisco Chronicle" called it the "synagogue-without-walls in San Francisco and Berkeley", [cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/03/INI9UP0S1.DTL |title=Primary Views: Rabbi Michael Lerner: Candidate: Barack Obama |publisher="San Francisco Chronicle" |date=February 3, 2008 |accessdate=2008-02-06 ] a term also used by "The New York Times" to describe the community before it was formalized in 1996. [cite web |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6D71330F93BA25756C0A96E948260 |title=On West Coast, a Newly Vital Judaism |first=Perry |last=Garfinkel |publisher="The New York Times" |date=May 18, 1988 |accessdate=2008-02-06 ]

References

Further reading

* cite web
url=http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/2003/April/Jews.html
title=Passover Seders Draw Large Crowds
first=Corrie M.
last=Anders
publisher="The Noe Valley Voice"
year=2003
month=April
accessdate=2008-02-05

External links

* [http://www.beyttikkun.org/ Beyt Tikkun Synagogue]