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How Can Reconstructionists Pray?
Reconstructionists are not atheists. The founder of Reconstructionism, Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, was falsely accused of atheism during his lifetime and has been so labeled since his death. Those accusations are made by people who think that either you believe in a God who governs the details of our lives, rewarding and punishing us, orchestrating the things that happen or you don't believe in God at all.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/how-can-reconstructionists-pray
Posted on: 2017/03/29 - 9:53am
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Seeing the Other
Recently I was invited to teach a group of queer Jewish undergraduates who on their own initiative, organized themselves into a group that meets weekly over dinner at the campus Hillel Foundation (Jewish Center) to discuss topics and issues of common concern. They asked me to speak on “Queering Jewish Theology,” and I led them for an hour through a study of several traditional sacred texts that suggest ways that human beings might engage with God in a way that does not depend on the approval of communal human authorities.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/seeing-other
Posted on: 2014/01/01 - 12:00am
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Pondering the Meaning of Tisha B'Av
This article is excerpted from The Guide to Jewish Practice, Volume 2. The full Guide may be ordered from the Reconstructionist Press.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/pondering-meaning-tisha-bav
Posted on: 2017/07/27 - 5:27pm
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Reconstructing for Tomorrow 11/7/17 First Session
There’s been a tension throughout our history between understanding Reconstructionism as an approach to being Jewish, a set of questions, a set of processes, a set of conversations. Reconstructionism as an organizational structure embodies those questions, those processes, those conversations.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/reconstructingfortomorrowfirstsession
Posted on: 2017/11/10 - 3:38pm
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Reconstructing for Tomorrow Second Session
“As with Torah, so with ecology.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/reconstructingfortomorrowsecondsession
Posted on: 2017/12/05 - 4:06pm
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Reconstructing for Tomorrow 12/5/2017 Third Session
The Reconstructionist movement investigates a natural or transnatural understanding of God…that is, setting aside the personal idea of God…and embraces the laws of natural science and accept that they are contained within a divinity.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/reconstructingfortomorrowthirdsession
Posted on: 2018/02/05 - 10:57am
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Divine Justice: A Jewish Perspective
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/divine-justice-jewish-perspective
Posted on: 2019/11/06 - 12:37pm
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Virtual Day of Learning 2021 - God?: A Reconstructionist Conversation
Posted on: 2021/03/01 - 12:29pm
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Shavuot Theology
This article is excerpted from The Guide to Jewish Practice, Volume 1. The full Guide may be ordered from the Reconstructionist Press.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/shavuot-theology
Posted on: 2016/11/15 - 4:42pm