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How to Build Just and Holy Congregations
Although to every individual the achievement of personal salvation is his supreme quest and responsibility, it is unattainable without devotion to the task of social salvation.–Mordecai M. Kaplan, The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion
Smashing the Imperialist Napkinholder
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/how-build-just-and-holy-congregations
Posted on: 2016/05/12 - 1:34pm
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Reconstructionism, Chosenness, and the Abrahamic Dialogue
The first time I encountered the idea that Jews were a “chosen people,” I learned that this was a mistaken and even pernicious belief that was held by other Jews. The rejection of chosenness made sense to me then as a 12 year old preparing for her bat mitzvah in a Reconstructionist congregation. It has continued to make sense to me over the years, for all the reasons that Rabbi Deborah Waxman so eloquently lays out in her article, “Rejecting Chosenness in Favor of Distinctiveness.”
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 11:44am