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Refugee Statement - Trump Executive Order
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Politics from the Pulpit
This year our synagogue is raising up the value of Tikkun Olam – our responsibility to take action to repair the world. If we take seriously our responsibility to repair the brokenness of the world, we have to look at problems that are too big for us to resolve on our own. For example, no matter how much we recycle or conserve energy as individuals, global warming requires systemic responses including governing bodies and cultural change.
Posted on: 2017/01/26 - 9:49pm
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Op-Ed on Trump Executive Order and International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The following op-ed was originally published in Ha’aretz on January 30, 2017 at this URL: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.768155The article is shared with the kind permission of the author, Mathew S. Nosanchuk, a member of Reconstructionist congregation Adat Shalom and former liaison to the Jewish community under President Obama.Trump’s Refugee Ban Dishonors the Memory of the Jewish Holocaust Victims He Failed to Acknowledge
Posted on: 2017/01/30 - 12:27pm
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Light Through The Cracks - DW
Recently on the radio, I listened to the new president vigorously assert his belief in the effectiveness of torture. This is not news: he had made his views on the topic clear as a candidate. But this radio report was further evidence, piled onto President Trump’s intimidation of the media and his assertions that falsehoods are truths and truths falsehoods, that we are living in a new reality, where the leader of the free world champions the practices of despots and dictators.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/light-through-cracks
Posted on: 2017/02/01 - 2:51pm
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The Cornerstone of a Better World
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/cornerstone-better-world
Posted on: 2017/03/03 - 3:23pm
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Reconstructionism Today--Dorshei Emet
(Photo from CBC)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/dorshei-emet-refugee-family-arrives
Posted on: 2017/03/10 - 3:42pm
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Waiting for the Messiah - JJS
I was in my mid-twenties, delivering an “Introduction to Judaism” talk to a group of fraternity brothers at Lafayette College, when I first heard the question: Jewish people don’t believe the messiah has come? The young man, who identified himself as a member of the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, lingered long after the program ended to try to understand what that meant. He could not imagine how one could live in such a state.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/waiting-messiah
Posted on: 2014/01/10 - 12:00am
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Let's Journey Together
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MJL Interview with Rabbi Toba Spitzer
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/interview-rabbi-toba-spitzer
Posted on: 2017/07/26 - 11:38am
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Statement on Charlottesville
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities condemns in the strongest terms the white supremacist groups that gathered in Charlottesville, VA, over the weekend to promote racism, anti-Semitism, and other ideologies of bigotry. Our hearts go out to the family of Heather Heyer, the anti-hate demonstrator who was killed in what has been accurately characterized by the U.S.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/charlottesville-response
Posted on: 2017/08/14 - 2:35pm
