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A Jewish Approach to Obligatory Giving
(Reprinted from Congregations Magazine, The Alban Institute, Nov/Dec 2001. This piece was written by Bob Leventhal and Rabbi Shawn Zevit)
The rabbi squirms in his seat when a leader suggests that he engage in fundraising. Perennially vocal board members grow silent when it is time to follow up with congregants about their financial obligations. The topic of money makes us uncomfortable. But no organized religion has ever been without a need for resources or an expectation of offerings, dues, or taxes to support its institutions.https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/jewish-approach-obligatory-giving
Posted on: 2001/11/01 - 12:00am
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Group Discussion About Money (RT Winter 1999/2000)
This piece was originally published in Reconstructionism Today in its Winter 1999/2000 issue. It is included here for its historical interest and variety of perspectives.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/group-discussion-about-money
Posted on: 1999/05/24 - 12:00am
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Dues and Financial Policy: Our Tax for Jewish Citizenship
Early Models
Since developing as a people after the exodus from Egypt, the most common method of raising funds in Jewish community has been through taxation (see Exodus 30 on the half-shekel, Exodus 35 on free-will offerings, Leviticus 19 and Deuteronomy 14, 24, and 26 on tithing). This is by no means unique to the Jewish people.
Posted on: 2005/10/01 - 12:00am
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Synagogue Membership As a Requirement For Religious School Enrollment
This listserv thread from November 2001 still contains valuable discussion on congregational policy.
Jeff Steinberg, Toronto, Ontario
I sit on our Hebrew school committee, which is currently reviewing a policy of the congregation. The policy requires congregational membership after one year's enrollment in the school. The school, in effect, serves a membership gathering function.
Posted on: 2001/11/01 - 12:00am
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Les Bronstein - Welcoming the Stranger
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
When people would ask me to describe our congregation, I used to boast to them about the joyous seriousness of our davening; the dedication and intensity of our lehrhaus-style adult learning; the courage of our social action undertakings; and the pride our people take in being a reasonably successful experiment in creating Jewish sacred peoplehood.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/creating-culture-welcome
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:20pm
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Welcoming the Stranger (Brian Field)
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
In 1997 the Colorado Jewish Federation undertook a demographic study of the Denver-Boulder Jewish population. It discovered an affiliation rate of around 30%. In other words, a majority of Jews were, in effect, strangers in our own community.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/including-stranger
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:39pm
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Making Seder and Kiddush more inclusive
One of the small but significant innovations of the Reconstructionist haggadah, “A Night of Questions,” was the rubric “wine or grape juice” that appears before each of the traditional four cups of the Seder as well as in the Introduction of how to prepare for Pesach.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/making-seder-and-kiddush-more-inclusive
Posted on: 2016/04/18 - 3:51pm
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Resources for Respectful Dialogue on Israel
From the Reconstructionist Movement
Rabbi Toba Spitzer, RRC ’97: “A Guide to Talking about Israel in Your Congregation”
PEARL call with Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, RRC ’85, and Cherie Brown, founder and executive director of the National Coalition Building Institute: “Having the Hard Conversations about Israel” http://archive.jewishrecon.org/pearl-sessions-2013
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/resources-respectful-dialogue-israel
Posted on: 2016/04/19 - 12:24pm
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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
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"Straight-Welcoming?!" – Creating an Inclusive Community
Jewish communities of all stripes are grappling with the challenge of creating more inclusive communities. In particular, there is an unprecedented focus on welcoming LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Jews. At Congregation Bet Haverim (CBH) in Atlanta, our commitment to inclusivity emerged organically. Founded by gay and lesbian Jews, we became straight-welcoming; today, straight members constitute the majority. We had to decide whether our values were queer specific or queer universal.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/straight-welcoming-creating-inclusive-community
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 11:25am