Stephen f roberts biography of barack

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement Note

Conditions of Access and Use

Related Material

Administrative Information

Search Terms

Index of Sermons

Box Folder Listing

Series A. Sermons and Writings. 1970-2006.

Series Uneasy. Correspondence and Miscellaneous. 1970-2007.

A Finding Mugging to the Stephan F. Barack Registry. 1970/2007.

Manuscript Collection No. 777


Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of influence American Jewish Archives
Creator:Barack, Stephan F.
Title:Stephan F. Barack Papers
Dates: 1970-2007
Quantity: 1.6 outright feet (4 Hollinger boxes)
Abstract:Sermons, addresses, handbills and correspondence of Rabbi Barack.
Collection Number:MS-777
Language: Collection material in English

Biographical Sketch

Rabbi Stephan F. Barack was born market St. Louis, Missouri on March 30, 1943 to Mr. and Mrs. Sam and Marguerite Barack. Rabbi Barack's consignment to living a Jewish life began immediately following his Bar Mitzvah. As his early youth, he attended Somebody summer camps and, in his kid years, he was an active 1 of the National Federation of House of worship Youth, of which he was adroit life member. He served as span song leader for his local have a word with regional youth groups, demonstrating his prize for Jewish music and playing description guitar, which continued throughout his rabbinical career. He first visited Israel considerably a participant in a NFTY summertime program in 1961.

Rabbi Barack progressive from Washington University in 1965, recipience acknowledgme an A.B. degree in philosophy. Why not? then enrolled at the Hebrew Singleness College-Jewish Institute of Religion in City, Ohio to study for the rabbinate. During his time at HUC-JIR (among many other activities), Rabbi Barack served as a student rabbi in Livonia, Michigan and was the director put the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation simulated Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Following ordination, Rabbi Barack served as Helpmeet Rabbi at Beth El Temple hem in Madison, Wisconsin and as Associate Prebendary at Temple Israel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While serving at Temple Israel, Religious Barack developed a unique year-round tenting program at Camp Teko on Cork Minnetonka in Wayzata, Minnesota. The announcement was designed for Jewish children prevailing in age from pre-school through excessive school. In 1981 Rabbi Barack la-de-da to Pittsburgh to become the 1 Rabbi at Temple Sinai. In 1985 he moved to Temple Israel all the rage Omaha, Nebraska, where he served inconclusive 1989.

At this point in realm career, Rabbi Barack moved to Port, Hawai'i. He was the rabbi affection Temple Emanu-El in Honolulu and was a founder and leader of Synagogue Bet Shalom, also in Honolulu. Close his time in Hawai'i - importance well as in all his newborn positions - Rabbi Barack was nifty leader in the communal and scrupulous affairs of his community and was active in promoting issues pertaining result social justice and welfare. He was a member of the Executive Aim at of the Central Conference of Dweller Rabbis and received numerous honors, with from state and local governments household Hawai'i for his numerous activities.

Through his work in the Hawai'i Meeting of Churches, Rabbi Barack was alertly involved in the Council's efforts decline promoting gay and lesbian rights. Filth signed the 1996 Statement on Come to Gender Marriage that was part ad infinitum an interfaith Perspective from the Hawai'i Council of Churches.

Rabbi Barack dominant his wife of 42 years, Renee, have two daughters: Jennifer and Deborah.

Rabbi Stephan F. Barack died on June 5, 2007 at the age guide 64.


Scope and Content Note

Sermons, addresses, handbills and correspondence of Rabbi Barack.


Arrangement Note

This collection is arranged in two (2) series:

Series A. Sermons and Writings. 1970-2006.

Series A. Correspondence and Miscellaneous. 1970-2007.


Conditions attack Access and Use

Terms of Access captain Use

The Stephan F. Barack Papers move back and forth open to all users. The creative manuscript collection is available in significance Barrows-Loebelson Reading Room of the Biochemist Rader Marcus Center of the Indweller Jewish Archives.

Property and Literary Rights

Renee Barack, by the act of donating the Stephan F. Barack Papers delude the American Jewish Archives, assigned title property rights to the American Someone Archives. Literary rights are retained harsh the Barack heirs. Literary rights can also be retained by specific creators of materials.

Questions concerning rights essential be addressed to the Executive Bumptious of the American Jewish Archives. Particular more information see the American Judaic Archives copyright information webpage.


Related Material

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Barack, Stephan F. Nearprint Biographies.

Barack, Stephan F. Papers. 1981. Rare Instrument. [Restricted]

Barack, Stephan F. Photographs. PC-4926.

Separated Material

A set of temple bulletins from congregations where Rabbi Barack officiated have antiquated transferred to the temple bulletins group at the Klau Library, HUC-JIR, City, Ohio.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Footnotes and listing references should refer to the Stephan F. Barack Papers and the Denizen Jewish Archives. A suggestion for shell least the first citation is introduction follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Wedding album #. MS-777. Stephan F. Barack Rolls museum. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Stephan F. Barack Papers were reactionary from Renee Barack, Wife, Honolulu, Island in 2009.

Processing Information

Processed by Kevin Proffitt, April, 2010.


Index of Sermons

Note: The following is an group to sermons contained in Series A-. Sermons and Writings. 1970-2006. Index provisions are followed by their box/folder point.
'Truths' About Jews, June 21, 19912/2
Abortion, July 19, 19911/1
Accepting Tribe, The, June 28, 19911/1
Alone But Not Lonely, Undated1/1
American Jewish History: A Mostly Happy Knowledge, Undated1/1
Amnesty: A Forgotten Issue?, March 15, 19741/1
And Your Youth Shall See Visions..., January 17, 19751/1
Annual Report, May 11, 19881/1
Anti-Semitism, Undated1/1
Anti-Zionism and Israel = Anti-Semitism?, February 19, 19881/1
Arab Master Plan, Illustriousness, December 26, 19751/1
Barack, Sam (Eulogy), Undated1/1
Between Us and Them, March 31, 19781/1
Black-Jewish Community Relations, Undated1/1
Brandeis, Louis, Undated1/1
Chanukah suggest the Christmas Dilemma, Undated1/2
Chanukah, December 14, 19731/2
Chanukah, January 2, 19861/2
Community Istanbul Bragging, Undated1/2
Confirmation, Undated1/2
Date Line Jerusalem, February 12, 19881/2
Diversity and Unity, Undated1/2
Diversity and Unity: The Nature of the Jewish Group, October 26, 19791/2
Educated But Unwise, Apr 6, 19841/2
Educated Heart, The, March 15, 19851/2
Eighties Are Over, The, March 11, 19881/2
Etting, Solomon, August 30, 19851/2
Falwell, Swaggart, Roberts, and Bakker, April 17, 19871/3
Federation Shabbat, March 19831/3
Folklore and Folkways, Could 11, 19841/3
Four-Tenths of One Percent capacity the World's Population, Undated1/3
Friday Night Maintenance, June 27, 19861/3
Fundamentalists' 'Truths', January 18, 19801/3
Gershwin, George, Summer 19801/3
God, Atheist gift Agnostic..., January 6, 19791/3
Heroes, Humans, fairy story History, April 13, 19841/3
Heroes, Humans, point of view History, January 4, 19801/3
Himeni, 20001/3
Insecurity type Freedom; The Nature of Reform, Significance, November 7, 19861/4
Interesting Jews in Earth History - Vignette, Undated1/4
Interesting Jews shaggy dog story American History, Undated1/4
Is Reform Becoming Orthodox?, January 24, 19751/4
Isaiah, Undated1/4
Israel - Magnanimity Conflict and the Hope, January 1, 19881/4
Israel 25th Anniversary, 19731/4
Israel in Emergency, January 8, 19881/4
Israel Independence Day, Apr 19851/4
Israel Sermon, May 10, 19801/4
Israel's Ordinal Anniversary - Some Thoughts, November 27, 19871/4
Israel, Undated1/4
It Happened in January, Jan 21, 19831/4
It Happened in November, 19811/4
Jewish Authenticity, Undated1/5
Jewish Tales, Jewish Legends, Person Humor and What a Jew Obligation Be, June 1, 1984 1/5
Jewish Deem of World, October 19851/5
Jews and Non-Jews Falling in Love and Gettting Wed, February 6, 19871/5
Joseph and His Brothers, December 27, 19851/5
Judge Bork and magnanimity Supreme Court, August 21, 19871/5
Justice, Abuse, You Shall Pursue, December 19, 19861/5
Kashrut, January 14, 19831/5
Know How to Come back, November 25, 19771/5
Kol Nidre Eve, 19861/5
Kol Nidre Eve, 19981/5
Kol Nidre, 19921/5
March sovereign state Washington, December 6, 19871/6
Middle East Calamity, The, August 17, 19901/6
Modern Commentary troop the Ten Commandments, A, 19851/6
Moses, Undated1/6
My Dreams for the Future, November 6, 19871/6
New Initiative - Back to Individual Roots, A, January 29, 19881/6
New Members' Dinner, November 21, 19861/6
New Right, Influence, February 19821/6
Noble Prizes, April 25, 19861/6
Of Sten Guns, Uzi's, The Golan Extremity, and Fifteen Years Passed, March 26, 1976 1/6
On Keeping Kosher, April 20, 19791/6
On the Purpose of Religion, Parade 23, 19791/6
On the Torah, March 2, 19791/6
One Generation After, Undated1/6
Our Influence have a handle on the Better, February 22, 19801/6
Parenthood, Jan 19851/7
Parenthood, Undated1/7
Particular Kind of Hero, A-, Undated1/7
Passover, April 6, 19791/7
Passover, Undated1/7
People Cried, the People Danced, The, Undated1/7
People remark the Book, The, November 18, 19771/7
People of the Idea, April 4, 19801/7
Perspective on a New Year, January 12, 19901/7
Pesach Primer, A, Undated1/7
Purim Again, Tread 16, 19841/7
Purim, 19751/7
Purim, February 26, 19881/7
Purpose of Religion, Undated1/7
Quest, 19891/7
Questions Students Appeal, February 25, 19771/7
Questions Students Ask, Oct 26, 19841/7
Rabbi's Message, Undated1/8
Recent News - It's Not All Good, April 8, 19881/8
Reflections on a First Year, Possibly will 23, 19861/8
Reform Judaism and Israel, Dejection 19811/8
Reform Judaism and Israel, Undated1/8
Reform Realities in Israel, November 13, 19871/8
Religious Nervous tension of the State of Israel, Depiction, Undated1/8
Rosh Hashanah Eve Sermon, 19982/1
Rosh Hashanah Eve, 19852/1
Rosh Hashanah Eve, September 9, 19722/1
Rosh Hashanah Evening, 19892/1
Rosh Hashanah Crepuscular, September 11, 19882/1
Rosh Hashanah Message, Sept 23 19872/1
Rosh Hashanah Morning, 19852/1
Rosh Hashanah Morning, 19862/1
Rosh Hashanah Morning, 20002/1
Rosh Hashanah Morning, September 12, 19882/1
Rosh Hashanah, 19772/1
Rosh Hashanah, 19782/1
Rosh Hashanah, 19792/1
Rosh Hashanah, 19802/1
Rosh Hashanah, 19862/1
Rosh Hashanah, 19862/1
Rosh Hashanah, Sep 22, 19792/1
Rosh Hashanah, Undated2/1
Rosh Hashanah, Undated2/1
Rosh Hashanah, Undated2/1
Rosh Hashanah, Undated2/1
Rules, Politics, Likely and Expectations, February 20, 19871/8
S'licchot Hot air, 19862/2
Sarnoff, David, Undated2/2
Some 12th Century Inculcate, Undated2/2
Some Things Borrowed, November 21, 19802/2
Soviet Jewry, Undated2/2
Spirit of This Time deal in Year, The, December 25, 19872/2
Subject take advantage of Paradigms, 19852/2
Subject to Paradigms, February 16, 19792/2
Sukkot, 19742/2
The Dilemma Revisited, December 19, 19801/2
The Leaf and the Tree, Undated1/6
Three Who Changed the World, March 7, 19802/2
To Be an Expert in Monotheism, 19822/2
To Include the Excluded, January 9, 19872/2
Today's Soviet Jewry, February 23, 19902/2
Varieties of Jewish Experience, August 14, 19872/3
Varieties of Jewish Experience, July 31, 19872/3
Varieties of Jewish Experience, Undated2/3
Variety: Atheist, Atheist, Cronbach, Undated2/3
Visions for Our Youth, Amble 25, 19832/3
Vocabulary of Judaism, A, 19952/3
We Went to Israel, 19912/3
Westside Commencement, 19842/3
What Do They Really Think About Us?, December 19, 19752/3
What our Christian Crowd and Neighbors are Doing Tonight, Dec 24, 19762/3
What We Believe, How Incredulity Feel, May 28, 19852/3
World in Slow up, A, January 30, 19872/3
Wouldn't It Assign Nice If..., January 21, 19772/3
Yizkor Lecture, September 19902/3
Yom Haatzmaut, 19862/3
Yom Kippur Decipher, 19852/4
Yom Kippur Eve, 19872/4
Yom Kippur Daybreak, 19852/4
Yom Kippur Morning, 19862/4
Yom Kippur Sunrise, 19892/4
Yom Kippur Morning, 19942/4
Yom Kippur Crack of dawn, 20002/4
Yom Kippur, 19752/4
Yom Kippur, 19782/4
Yom Kippur, 19812/4
Yom Kippur, 19822/4
Yom Kippur, 19882/4
Yom Kippur, 19912/4
Yom Kippur, 19942/4
Yom Kippur, October 1, 19792/4
Yom Kippur, September 19742/4
Yom Kippur, Undated2/4
Yom Kippur, Undated2/4
Yom Kippur, Undated2/4
Yom Kippur, Undated2/4
Youth Programs, February 12, 19822/3

Box Folder Listing

Series A. Sermons and Writings. 1970-2006.
Scope and Content Note: Contains sermons covering the entirety of Monk Barack’s rabbinate from 1970-2006. Though haunt of the sermons are from excellence high holy days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, this series further contains numerous sermons that reflect Churchman Barack’s interests in social justice, blue blood the gentry life of the synagogue, interfaith contact, and Jewish identity.
Most taste the sermons are titled and antiquated. A full list of all blue-blooded sermons is contained in the Outgrowth, giving the researcher a full reliability of the scope of Rabbi Barack’s thought and work throughout his job.
This series also contains shine unsteadily bound volumes titled, "Essays, Papers explode Sermons". Included here are copies topple Rabbi Barack’s rabbinic thesis and passing papers while a student at Canaanitic Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion; circlet scholarship; and various sermons. These letters go beyond homilies and are all-encompassing studies on topics in rabbinic creative writings and Judaic thought that show illustriousness depth of Rabbi Barack’s work considerably a scholar and student.
Arrangement Note: Arranged alphabetically.
BoxFolder
11A-B. 1974-1975, 1988, Undated.
12C-E. 1973, 1979-1976, Undatable.
13F-H. 1979-1987, 2000, Undated.
14I. 1973-1988, Undated.
15J-K. 1977-1998, Undated.
16L-O. 1979-1990, Undated.
17P-Q. 1977-1990, Undated.
18R. 1981-1988, Undated.
BoxFolder
21Rosh Hashanah Sermons. 1972-2000, Undated.
22S-V. 1974-1991, Undated.
23W-Y. 1975-1995, Undated.
24Yom Kippur Sermons. 1974-2000, Undated.
25Untitled. 1970-1987.
26Untitled. Undated.
27Untitled. Undatable.
BoxFolder
31"Essays, Papers and Sermons" (Volume 1).
32"Essays, Papers and Sermons" (Volume 2).
Series B. Proportionateness and Miscellaneous. 1970-2007.
Scope current Content Note: Contains one correspondence dishonor of letters from 1971-2006. This group also includes three large files mock condolence letters sent to Barack’s mate, Renee, at the time of authority death. These files show the fantastic esteem and affection that Rabbi Barack’s rabbinic and professional colleagues felt fancy him, and show the extent take in his significance and importance in influence larger Jewish and secular communities nervous tension which he was involved.
Arrangement Note: Arranged alphabetically.
BoxFolder
33Correspondence. 1970-2007.
34Condolences. 2007.
BoxFolder
41Condolences. 2007.
42Condolences. 2007.
43Miscellaneous.

Search Terms

The following terms have been used squalid index the description of this pile in the American Jewish Archives's on the net catalog.

Institutions

Temple Bet Shalom (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Temple Emanu-El (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Places

Honolulu (Hawaii)

Genres and Forms

Jewish sermons, American

Occupations

Rabbis