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Fall Holiday Glossary
This file contains a helpful glossary of terms for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. It begins with a letter to parents suggesting themes to think about during the holiday season.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/fall-holiday-glossary
Posted on: 2016/04/15 - 2:00pm
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Finding Forgiveness
We hear about forgiveness every year at the High Holy Days. We seek God’s forgiveness in shul from Selihot through the final prayers of Yom Kippur.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/finding-forgiveness
Posted on: 2016/04/15 - 2:14pm
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Understanding Transgender Issues in Jewish Ethics
The dominant approach to gender in Western society has its origin in Christian thought that understands both sex and gender as binary. In that understanding, everyone is either male or female, and gender and sex are identical. While Jews gradually absorbed that perspective, classical rabbinic Judaism had a much more sophisticated understanding.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/understanding-transgender-issues-jewish-ethics
Posted on: 2016/04/18 - 3:48pm
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Inclusion and Disabilities: Hebrew and English Texts
For Jewish Disabilities Awareness month in February of 2014, Rabbi Michelle Greenfield, RRC ’12 examined the Torah readings found that month with an eye toward issues of inclusion and disability. She also included “Some Biblical and Rabbinic Sources on Disability: An Honest Look,” in which she examines the use and misuse of Hebrew texts that are often quoted when talking about inclusion of people with different abilities. Her English commentary provides a deeper understanding of these texts' strengths and limitations.
Posted on: 2016/04/18 - 4:03pm
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Jews and Fellow Travelers
(Originally published in the Spring 2005 edition of Reconstructionism Today)
Posted on: 2016/04/18 - 4:45pm
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Greening Sustainable Synagogues
In this resource guide, Rabbis Fred Dobb and Nathan Martin present a plethora of resources to help congregations become shomrei adamah - responsible guardians of the Earth.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/greening-sustainable-synagogues
Posted on: 2016/04/18 - 6:37pm
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Guide to Talking about Israel in your Congregation
Introduction
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/guide-talking-about-israel-your-congregation
Posted on: 2016/04/19 - 12:33pm
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The Wealth Gap: How We Chose This Issue
Our Tikkun Olam Commission developed a set of criteria to guide its social justice recommendations for the movement. Every couple of years, the Commission will advise that the Reconstructionist movement concentrate on a new issue which, on balance, best meets these criteria.
Here’s how the wealth gap meets the criteria we’ve set for a movement-wide focus:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/wealth-gap-how-we-chose-issue
Posted on: 2016/04/19 - 2:34pm
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About the Wealth Gap
Justice Further Deferred
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/about-wealth-gap
Posted on: 2016/04/19 - 2:43pm
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Tikkun Olam: Our Current Focus
The Reconstructionist movement has helped define the vanguard of social justice in the Jewish community, advancing causes from equality for women and the LGBT community, to interfaith dialogue.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/tikkun-olam-our-current-focus
Posted on: 2020/01/15 - 11:00am
