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The Torah Process
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/torah-process-how-jews-make-decisions
Posted on: 2016/11/15 - 2:47pm
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A History of Reconstructionist Zionism
In preparing this essay, I had the opportunity to read books, editorials and articles from an 80-year span of Reconstructionist history.[1] This wide-ranging array of material reflects a striking uniformity in Reconstructionist positions on Zionism. From the movement’s outset, every intellectual leader has been a committed Zionist loyal to the same principles. Their responses to changing political situations have been quite predictable based on their earlier positions.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/history-reconstructionist-zionism
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 2:27pm
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On Occupied Ground
“It’s the occupation, stupid.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/occupied-ground
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 2:30pm
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Rabbis and Rabbinical Students in your Congregation
RRC produces rabbis who can meet the needs of congregants, introduce new ideas and new thinking—and help attract new members. When you engage with a rabbi or student rabbi from RRC, you encounter a person who is:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/rabbis-and-rabbinical-students-your-congregation
Posted on: 2016/04/07 - 1:05pm
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Adonai-Elohim: The Two Faces of God
Right after Yom Kippur I received a frantic telephone call. As I arrived at the home, it was already filled with family and friends. I knew the family very well: serious Jews.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/adonai-elohim-two-faces-god
Posted on: 2016/04/26 - 11:46am
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Introduction to Reconstructionist Educators' FAQs
Click here to read the FAQs themselves.
What is going on in a child’s mind when they ask a question? Rabbi Harold Kushner tells the amusing story of the parent who wanted to provide sophisticated theological answers to his five-year-old son who had asked about God. The father explained how God wasn’t really a person, but was instead a spirit, a miraculous presence. A few minutes later the five-year-old came back to his father and said, “I got it. God is like Casper the Friendly Ghost.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/introduction-reconstructionist-educators-faqs
Posted on: 2016/03/24 - 6:12pm
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I Want You to Know I Am Human: Listening to the Stranger Behind Bars
I am a public defender. I have a client who thanks me, constantly. He thanks me for taking his calls, for answering his letters, for passing on bad news. On some days, his enthusiasm and gratitude buoy me. I hope he believes that I am fighting for him as well as any lawyer could. I hope he knows I hear him. On other days, I rail against my clients’ low expectations. Some of our clients do not expect competent lawyers, do not expect to be heard. They do not expect their lives to matter. More than anything, I cannot accept this.
Posted on: 2017/08/16 - 2:56pm
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Shofar Kavannah for Refugees
This ritual invokes the blast of the shofar to articulate the plight of refugees. It was created for use at High Holidays in response to the presidential travel ban.
The blasts of the shofar are a wordless prayer punctuated by moments of silence. The stories of courage, hope, and determination of refugees resettling in our communities are punctuated by the silent yearnings of those who are kept out by the presidential travel ban.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/shofar-kavannah-refugees
Posted on: 2017/08/16 - 3:35pm
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Gerald Fox - Welcoming the Stranger
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
How do you know if you’re on the right path…this moment, and the next, and the one after that? How many of us, especially if we have over-obligated lives (as many of us do), find ourselves a little startled or even completely shocked that we are in the overgrowth, far from the trail that we had set upon last High Holy Days?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/welcoming-those-who-are-close
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:27pm
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Shefa - Welcoming Stranger
(Originally published in RRA Connections)
My rabbinate has called to me an ever-expanding circle of spiritual seekers, God-lovers, and many who have felt excluded from traditional community practice.
As I reach out and invite my students onto a path of spiritual adventure and exploration, my intention is to let them know that their path is unique and precious, AND that we walk this path together. I let them know that Judaism can offer amazing and useful resources for transformation and a rich and beautiful language to express the ineffable.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/hospitality-and-spirit
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 2:08pm
