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A Reconstructionist Exploration of Dietary Law
When I was growing up, Sunday morning breakfast at our home always included bacon. Seders routinely featured sliced bread alongside the matzah. As we lived just down the block from a Chinese restaurant, pork and shellfish (however diced and disguised) frequently found their way to our table. It is fair to say that my family of origin was lacking in kosher consciousness!
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/reconstructionist-exploration-dietary-law
Posted on: 2000/01/01 - 12:00am
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Multicultural Haroset Recipes
Haroset symbolizes the mortar that the slaves made in Egypt, but it’s also sweet. So in Israel we say: “Me'oz yatza matok.” Out of the strong came forth sweetness. (Shoftim/Judges 14:14). There are many ways to make haroset. Here are three recipes from different cultures:
Ashkenazic Haroset
Makes 3 cups
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/multicultural-haroset-recipes
Posted on: 2017/03/29 - 3:31pm
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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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High Holiday Torah Services - Educators' Discussion
Discussion from March 2003
Vicki Phillips, B'nai Havurah, Denver, CO
Greetings Edtalkers,
This is Vicki from B'nai Havurah in Denver, Colorado. I am on the Children's High Holiday Programming committee. I have been involved with this committee on and off for about the last 8 years. I am currently asking for your input on what your synagogue does/offers for youth, grades kindergarten through 6th or 7th grade (B'nai Mitzvah) during the Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur Services.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/high-holiday-torah-services-educators-discussion
Posted on: 2017/03/29 - 5:51pm
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Meet Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D.
Learn about Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D. on her RRC biography page.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/meet-rabbi-deborah-waxman-phd
Posted on: 2013/10/09 - 12:00am
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Passover 2017 - Pineapple
This Passover, we’ve developed resources around the theme of refugees.
We created a nifty video (below) featuring Reconstructing Judaism’s President Rabbi Deborah Waxman walking viewers through the symbolism of a seder plate.
We’ve also created a supplement to use with your haggadah:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/pineapple
Posted on: 2017/04/04 - 10:38am
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Reconstructionist Radio: The Passover Seder
This audio program, recorded in 1998, offers an overview of the structure, development and religious meanings of the haggadah and the Passover seder with Rabbis Joy Levitt and Richard Hirsh. It includes a special behind-the-scenes look at the Reconstructionist haggadah, A Night of Questions, and its accompanying music CD. This is an episode of Heart, Mind and Spirit: Reconstructionist Radio hosted by Rabbi Shawn Zevit.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/reconstructionist-radio-passover-seder
Posted on: 2017/04/05 - 4:18pm
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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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The Value of a DIfferent Path
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day may have been invented by Hallmark as a brilliant strategy for selling greeting cards, but these days are becoming embedded in the warp and woof of our culture’s values and ritual practice. I am in favor of encouraging children and partners to appreciate celebrate the love of parents. I do think, however, that we are taking it a bit too far.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/value-different-path
Posted on: 2014/05/10 - 12:00am
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Coming Out
Long before I came out as a gay man when I was 49 years old, I had heard the saying: “Coming out is a process, not an event.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/coming-out
Posted on: 2014/06/01 - 12:00am
