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Bar/Bat Mitzvah Family Education Workshops
This three-part family education series addresses issues related to bar/bat mitzvah. It is designed for a large group of parents and students and uses active learning exercises. It covers issues around Jewish identity, the meaning of bar/bat mitzvah, and common concerns that parents and students have about the process. It was written by Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman for use at Congregation Shaarei Shamayim in Madison, Wisconsin.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/barbat-mitzvah-family-education-series
Posted on: 2016/11/17 - 8:05pm
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Learning Network Catalog 2016-17
This is the PDF version of the 2016-2017 catalog for the Reconstructionist Learning Networks. More information can be found on the Networks page.
Posted on: 2016/09/06 - 1:46pm
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JRF Israel Task Force Report
This 2004 report from the Jewish Reconstructionist Federationemerged from a movement-wide process that solicited thoughtful input from Reconstructionists across the country. A dedicated committee of rabbis and lay people developed the positions and proposals laid out in the report. While the Task Force’s proposals were never implemented, our revived Israel Task Force will be using the 2004 report as our foundation for moving forward. While much has changed since it was written., most of the earlier report’s framework and recommendations are still compelling and sound.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/jrf-israel-task-force-report-2004
Posted on: 2004/09/15 - 12:00am
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Sandy Sasso: Art and Biblical Text
In this Community Teaching call from January 2017, Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso teaches on artists and biblical text as seen through literature, visual art and music.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/art-and-biblical-text
Posted on: 2017/12/11 - 2:57pm
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Community Teaching 11-21-2017 - Maurice Harris
In this Community Learning call from November 21, 2017, Rabbi Maurice Harris talks about the strange way the Torah tells us about Moses’ up-close encounters with God, contradicting itself purposely within the space of nine verses. Two consecutive stories in the Book of Exodus confront us with a crucial paradox about how it is or isn’t possible to encounter the Divine, leaving us as readers with something like an “impossible” mental picture that we may be tempted to try to resolve or to hold as a fruitful paradox.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/spoken-audio/moses-encounters-god
Posted on: 2017/12/11 - 2:31pm
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Beshallah text study - at the sea
This selection of midrashim on the crossing of the Red Sea provides a window into the tradition’s ethical concerns surrounding this well-known story. The texts may be read below, or downloaded in PDF form.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/sea-selection-midrashim
Posted on: 2016/12/01 - 1:30pm
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Text study on gate for Ne'ilah - Gates Locked and Unlocked
This text study examines the vivid image of gates closing at the end of Yom Kippur.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/gates-locked-and-unlocked-yom-kippur-text-study
Posted on: 2016/11/17 - 5:45pm
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RRA Contributions to Elul Project
Six Reconstructionist rabbis were asked to write on the subject “Welcoming the Stranger” for their colleagues, in the RRA Connections newsletters. We’ve collected their contributions below.
Click here to return to the main “Embracing the Stranger” page)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/collection/rra-contributions
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 5:34pm
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God Loves The Stranger Feature
The high holy days are a time of collective and personal renewal. We ask ourselves “what do we value?” “What do we cherish?” We deepen our ongoing Jewish human project of creating a just and peaceful society and living a just and peaceful life. And we inquire “what is the relationship between the inner and the outer work of transformation?” I don’t have to tell any of you. It’s not easy.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/collection/love-the-stranger
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 1:17pm
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Embracing the Stranger - Internal
Embracing the stranger is an endeavor that requires not just outward action, but internal effort on many levels. Both as individuals and communities, real inclusion involves rethinking of boundaries.
Click here to return to the main “Embracing the Stranger” page)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/collection/looking-within
Posted on: 2017/08/18 - 1:06pm
