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  1. 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

  2. Our Partners for Justice

    We continue to maintain other tikkun olam alliances, and the Commission evaluates new possibilities on an ongoing basis. Currently we are partners with the following groups:

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/our-partners-justice

    Posted on: 2016/04/20 - 2:33pm

  3. Intro to PR and Media Relations Webinar July 2015

    Jewish Reconstructionist Communities has hosted monthly webinars on congregational communications topics ranging from marketing tool best practices to exploring the successful campaigns organized by Reconstructionist congregations.

    Records of past live webinars can be viewed on this site. 

    For more information about these and other resources, contact Rachael Burgess at rburgess@rrc.edu or 215-576-0800, ext. 141.

     

    Introduction to PR and Media Relations

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/video/webinar-introduction-pr-and-media-relations

    Posted on: 2016/11/21 - 4:00pm

  4. Guide to Free Media Publicity

    Introduction

    The goal of this document is to provide synagogues with guidance regarding how to obtain publicity that will enhance their outreach efforts. All this information will be useful for publicizing other aspects of synagogue life as well. By publicity, we mean non-paid editorial mention, whether it be an announcement, a photo, a feature story on radio or TV.

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/guide-free-media-publicity

    Posted on: 2016/11/22 - 8:25am

  5. The Midwives of Exodus Text Study

    The following is an easily-accessible text study about the ethnic ambiguity that the Torah presents us with regarding the midwives who refused to obey Pharaoh's orders. (Exodus, Chapter 1). 

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/midwives-exodus-interfaith-text-study

    Posted on: 2016/11/29 - 1:58pm

  6. 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:

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/looking-backward-and-looking-forward-texts-jewish-resistance-movement

    Posted on: 2017/02/03 - 2:07pm

  7. Being the Stranger (Doris Dyen)

    (Originally published in RRA Connections)

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/being-stranger

    Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:54pm

  8. Take Your Judaism For A Walk

    My dictionary defines ecology as “the relationship of organisms to their environment.” The root, eco, is from the Greek word oikos, meaning house, the space we inhabit. When we speak of ecology today, however, we generally mean making the world a better place to live in by cleaning it up. I would like to present two approaches to this subject—first, that of two experts in the field, and second, an idea that I had.

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/take-your-judaism-walk

    Posted on: 2016/04/15 - 12:09pm

  9. 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

  10. 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.”

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/reconstructionism-chosenness-and-abrahamic-dialogue

    Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 11:44am