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1. Where is God in This?

   “I’ve hit a wall,” a spiritual direction client recently said to me. “I want to discern God’s presence more frequently.”

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/where-god

   Posted on: 2014/07/22 - 12:00am

2. Is God to Blame When Bad Things Happen? JJS

   Often enough, I run into people who report that their faith in God was shattered when something terrible happened. If there is a God, they ask, how could He let such things happen?

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/god-blame-when-bad-things-happen

   Posted on: 2014/09/01 - 12:00am

3. Asking for Help - JJS

   It can be extremely difficult to ask for help.

   Contemporary Western secular culture prizes autonomy and self-reliance. From a very early age, we are taught that it is better to be independent than dependent, so that corporations have to train their employees to work cooperatively and interdependently.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/asking-help

   Posted on: 2014/01/29 - 12:00am

4. Waiting for the Messiah - JJS

   I was in my mid-twenties, delivering an “Introduction to Judaism” talk to a group of fraternity brothers at Lafayette College, when I first heard the question: Jewish people don’t believe the messiah has come? The young man, who identified himself as a member of the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, lingered long after the program ended to try to understand what that meant. He could not imagine how one could live in such a state.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/waiting-messiah

   Posted on: 2014/01/10 - 12:00am

5. Community Teaching 11-21-2017 - Maurice Harris

   In this Community Learning call from November 21, 2017, Rabbi Maurice Harris talks about the strange way the Torah tells us about Moses’ up-close encounters with God, contradicting itself purposely within the space of nine verses. Two consecutive stories in the Book of Exodus confront us with a crucial paradox about how it is or isn’t possible to encounter the Divine, leaving us as readers with something like an “impossible” mental picture that we may be tempted to try to resolve or to hold as a fruitful paradox.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/moses-encounters-god

   Posted on: 2017/12/11 - 2:31pm

6. Does The Torah Require Us To Publicize Names Of Sexual Abusers?

   What does Judaism teach us about how to respond to accusations of harassment or assault? Are we to regard the reputation of the accused as the highest priority even if that means silencing those speaking up against abuse? If so, how can the Jewish community address the problem?

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/does-torah-require-us-publicize-names-sexual-abusers

   Posted on: 2018/03/28 - 3:47pm

7. April 2018 Leadership Column

   Why belong?

   Why belong to the Jewish people? Why belong to a synagogue? Why belong to the Reconstructionist movement?

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/why-belong

   Posted on: 2018/04/09 - 8:43am

8. Seth Rosen Aug 6

   In the last several weeks, two experiences, both of them ongoing, have made clear to me the power and persistency of “gathering” as a lynchpin of building and sustaining a spiritual community within the Reconstructionist movement. By “gathering,” I mean physically gathering—being together at the same time, in the same place, for one another and with one another.

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/gathering-together

   Posted on: 2018/08/06 - 4:45pm

9. Evolve: Sowing the Seeds of Constructive Evolution

   

   https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/evolve

   Posted on: 2018/09/04 - 12:00am

10. Divine Justice: A Jewish Perspective Chautauqua news item/video

    Divine Justice: A Jewish Perspective

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/divine-justice-jewish-perspective

    Posted on: 2019/11/07 - 11:36am