Ever hear a sermon or dvar torah where the speaker twists themself into a pretzel trying to connect traditional text to current events? Rather than working from a Jewish text and building the bridge to current events, the News Minyan group does just the opposite. Developed over the last four years by Or Shalom Jewish Community, it is a spiritual form that uses our tradition's practice of wrestling with text to examine our own time, our own texts and the full experience of what it's like to be alive now.