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Rabbi Deborah Waxman on Israel, Kaplan & Diaspora Jews

Rachel Forth Pipitone — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 14:19:40 +0000

There’s much food for thought in this vital web conversation about how non-Orthodox Jews relate to Israel, featuring Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., president and CEO of Reconstructing Judaism. The program was organized by SAPIR, the influential journal of ideas for the Jewish future which recently launched an in-house institute to bring ideas to fruition. Waxman was in conversation with Channan Weissman director of the New SAPIR Institute, a former State Department official and White House liaison to the Jewish community.

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A Beat to Which We All Can Move’: A Call to Jews to Embrace the Pursuit of Racial Justice

Jonathan — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:51:03 +0000

From its very beginnings, the Jewish story is full of journeys. When it comes to racial justice work, the Reconstructionist movement is in the midst of a profound journey.

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Why Reconstructionism Now?

Jonathan — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:43:14 +0000

The existential nature of the Coronavirus pandemic is laying the groundwork for a religious revival, and the Reconstructionist movement is poised to contribute a compelling vision of 21st-century Jewish life as part of this revival.

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Dreaming Up High Holy Days

Jonathan — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:45:08 +0000

Rabbi Joshua Lesser (RRC ‘99) has had a front seat to one of the most joyful spots of our tragic time. With a group of Jewish leaders from different movements and perspectives, he helped create a Facebook group called Dreaming Up High Holy Days 2020.

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The Summer We Didn’t Get to Look Away … and Beyond

Jonathan — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:32:58 +0000

This summer we encountered a growing movement that forces us to stare into the face of racial injustice. For those of us who are accepted as white, it demands that we stop looking away. It requires us to try to imagine what it means to raise a child of color in America and examine how we, despite all of our best intentions, fail in our efforts to include and empower people of color in our civil and religious communities.

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Forces of Nature

Jonathan — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 22:37:27 +0000

Tara Saltzman, director of lifelong learning at Congregation Beth Evergreen in Denver, reflects on the ups and downs her congregation has experienced on the road to becoming more environmentally friendly.

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President’s Report 2020

Jonathan — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:57:50 +0000

Judaism teaches that seven years is a full cycle, and the current status of Reconstructing Judaism bears this out. Over the last seven years since the merger, and in the six years of my presidency, we have been transformed and are acting more and more every day as an integrated organization whose staff members work collaboratively towards shared goals.

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New Home for Havaya Arts

Jonathan — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 21:33:59 +0000

We’re beyond excited to share with you that our new home for Havaya Arts is Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.!

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Provide for Yourself a Rabbi

Jonathan — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:47:41 +0000

If we are serious about building Jewish community, what could be more important than educating, nurturing and supporting Jewish leaders — rabbis — who will partner with us, teach us, learn with us, and both ground us in our tradition and inspire us to reach for new meaning?

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Music of the Movement

Jonathan — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:26:27 +0000

Reconstructionist Jews are creating beautiful music. In this video, watch and listen to some of the musical highlights from our 2018 Convention and learn about Kolot Zimrah, a new online community where Reconstructionist musicians share their latest creations with the world.

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