Understanding Covenants and Communities: Study and Discussion Guide

Understanding Covenants and Communities: Jews and Latter-day Saints in Dialogue is a copublication by the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and CCAR Press, the publishing house of the Jewish Reform Movement in North America. The book is based on a dialogue between Jewish and Latter-day Saint scholars that took place between 2016 and 2018. In the framework of that dialogue, the papers delivered by participants explored and deepened the relationship between the Jewish and the Latter-day Saint communities. 

This discussion guide, written by Rabbi Thalia Halpert Rodis, was compiled to support rabbis (in “A Discussion Guide for Adult Learning”) as well as Jewish educators (in “A Discussion Guide for Synagogue Education”) in teaching their communities and classes about the Latter-day Saints. It is a guide to foster a better understanding of the other and a growing sense of our identity; it was created to make conversations and deep encounters possible and to shed light on both the values and histories we share, as well as on the theologies in which the two communities differ. This discussion guide was created to deconstruct stereotypes and enrich our mutual understanding.

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