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Political Activism as a Form of Prayer
Reflecting on the rituals and higher purpose of protest.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/political-activism-form-prayer
Posted on: 2016/04/13 - 1:55pm
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The Wealth Gap: How We Chose This Issue
Our Tikkun Olam Commission developed a set of criteria to guide its social justice recommendations for the movement. Every couple of years, the Commission will advise that the Reconstructionist movement concentrate on a new issue which, on balance, best meets these criteria.
Here’s how the wealth gap meets the criteria we’ve set for a movement-wide focus:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/wealth-gap-how-we-chose-issue
Posted on: 2016/04/19 - 2:34pm
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About the Wealth Gap
Justice Further Deferred
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/about-wealth-gap
Posted on: 2016/04/19 - 2:43pm
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Tikkun Olam: Our Current Focus
The Reconstructionist movement has helped define the vanguard of social justice in the Jewish community, advancing causes from equality for women and the LGBT community, to interfaith dialogue.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/tikkun-olam-our-current-focus
Posted on: 2020/01/15 - 11:00am
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Teen "TEL" Curriculum: Tikkun Olam
The TEL (Teens: Experience and Learning) post-b’nai mitzvah program focuses on the values of spiritual peoplehood that form the cornerstones of Reconstructionist Jewish education. Each curriculum focuses on a different value. Tikkun Olam is a Hebrew expression broadly meaning “reparing the world.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/teen-tel-curriculum-tikkun-olam
Posted on: 2016/04/21 - 2:02pm
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Recon Torah March 2015
“…Your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground!” (Genesis 4:10)
What is the cry of John Lewis’s blood, spilled on the Edmond Pettus Bridge 50 years ago? Or, the blood of the many other people killed or beaten in the struggle for civil rights in America?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/his-blood-cries-out-faith-and-love
Posted on: 2015/03/09 - 12:00am
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Yizkor Prayer for Righteous Gentiles
In the early part of 1939, my father, mother and infant brother were living in Paris, as refugees from the pogroms in Romania. They were illegal immigrants, living modestly with the hope of giving themselves and their son a better future than the one they had. But World War II was approaching, and the citizens of France were in danger of falling prey to the Vichy regime that was collaborating with Germany and Hitler. As Jews and illegal residents, my parents were in an extremely precarious situation. They were poor and had no connections or reasonable way of changing their situation.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/yizkor-prayer-righteous-gentiles
Posted on: 2016/09/29 - 12:45pm
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Fred Dobb Eco-Judaism session - Global Day 2016
“Love of the Creator, and love of that which G!d has created, are finally one and the same,” wrote Martin Buber. Defending this divine creation in an era of climate change is a Jewish (and social, political, and moral) imperative. A rich Jewish life is by nature an environmental one, though we need to pick up the pace, draw more explicit connections, and make our community a beacon of sustainability.
Posted on: 2016/11/21 - 1:20am
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From Tzedakah to Restorative Finance: A Curriculum
This Reconstructionist curriculum on wealth inequality was written for the movement’s Tikkun Olam commission in the winter of 5777 (2016-2017). It is structured as four 90-minute learning sessions, and contains guidance for adapting its content to different formats and audiences.
The curriculum can also be downloaded in Word format for ease of editing and reformatting:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/tzedakah-restorative-finance-curriculum
Posted on: 2017/01/25 - 6:21pm
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Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Texts for a Jewish Resistance Movement
These materials were created by Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism for the January 2017 Day of Reconstructionist Learning in New York. A writeup of the day’s teaching can be found here.
Rabbi Herrmann also provided teaching notes for her session, which can be found here:
Posted on: 2017/02/03 - 2:07pm