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Brief Asking Federal Court to Reverse Ruling Allowing Strip Searches of Female Inmates As Training Exercise
Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Assocation joined an amicus brief in Henry v. Hulett submitted by Muslim Advocates, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to re-hear and reverse a ruling that found that staff at an Illinois prison did not violate the Constitution when they forced female inmates to engage in a deeply humiliating and dehumanizing strip search as part of a training exercise.
Posted on: 2019/08/30 - 11:31am
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Deborah column on nationhood executive order
This article was originally posted at the Times of Israel site.
When I first read about President Donald Trump’s proposed Executive Order that would effectively, if not explicitly, define the Jewish people as a nationality, I thought of someone, a fictional person actually, who harkens back to a very different time and place: Tevye, the tragicomic milkman at the center of Fiddler on the Roof, a masterpiece of popular culture.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/fiddler-on-the-roof-and-trumps-executive-order
Posted on: 2019/12/13 - 11:13am
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Key Tips For Talking With News Professionals
Positive media coverage can amplify your voice, inform the public about key issues and build further credibility for your community. It’s a chance to share, in the public square, Reconstructionist values like pluralism and diversity, as well as remind audiences that there’s no one way to do and to be Jewish. At the same time, a negative story can negatively impact your community’s reputation. Here are key tips for speaking with journalists.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/key-tips-talking-news-professionals
Posted on: 2020/08/24 - 11:15am
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Statement on Election - Tues Nov 4 2020
Updated on November 9, 2020:
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stand for many of the values and are committed to many of the programs that Reconstructionist Jews champion. We have much work to do to heal our broken world. We stand ready to act in partnership with all people of goodwill.
Original Statement (November 4, 2020)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/counting-every-vote
Posted on: 2020/11/09 - 11:00am
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We Must Work to Ensure that the January 6th Insurrection Will Not Disrupt American Democracy
Reconstructionist Jews embrace living in both Jewish civilization and secular society. At the nexus of the Jewish and American civilizations is a wholehearted embrace of democracy. For us, democracy translates into practice the core principle of betzelem Elohim, the recognition that every individual is created in the image of God. Democracy advances millennia of Jewish experiments in self-governance, while also allowing deep and meaningful engagement with other ethnic and religious groups and full participation in broader society.
Posted on: 2021/01/07 - 7:36pm
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Standing Up for Racial Justice and Against Racial Violence
Posted on: 2020/06/02 - 4:06pm
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American Values, Religious Voices
Two Reconstructionist Rabbinical College faculty members are taking part in a powerful grassroots initiative titled “American Values Religious Voices: 100 Days. 100 Letters.” This national bipartisan campaign brings together 100 scholars from different religious traditions to articulate core American values that have grounded our nation in the past and should guide us forward at this time of political transition.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/american-values-religious-voices
Posted on: 2017/01/24 - 11:21am
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Reconstructing Judaism Statement
ברוך אתה ה’ אלוהינו חי העולמים מתיר אסורים.
Barukh atah adonay eloheynu hay ha’olamim matir asurim.
Blessed are you, THE REDEEMER, our God, Life of all the worlds, who frees the captives.
– From the morning liturgy
What a terrible irony that on Shabbat Shirah, as Jews around the world read about the Israelites’ liberation from slavery, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three other people were held hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas in a standoff that lasted more than 11 hours.
Posted on: 2022/01/16 - 12:50pm
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Reconstructing Judaism Joins More than 375 Interfaith Groups Urging Biden to Expedite Refugee Efforts
Following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s March 16 speech to Congress, more than 375 Jewish and other faith-based groups and organizations urged President Joe Biden to take immediate steps to welcome refugees from Ukraine. Jewish Federations of North America spearheaded the March 18 letter. Click here to view the PDF of the letter and see the full list of organizations that signed on.
Dear President Biden,
Posted on: 2022/03/22 - 11:29am
