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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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Surviving in the One-Room Schoolhouse
(Reprinted from Reconstructing Jewish Education: A Process Guide edited by Dr. Jeffrey Schein in 1989.)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/surviving-one-room-schoolhouse
Posted on: 2017/04/26 - 9:04am
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Fuller Aleynu For Siddur Kol Ha'Noar
Siddur Kol Hano'ar uses a truncated version of the Aleynu prayer. This fuller version uses Reconstructionist wording and can be pasted into Siddur Kol Hano'ar. It is available with and without transliteration.
Print the pdfs onto labels and cut them to size. Peel off the backs and paste the labels onto pages 34 and 82.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/fuller-aleynu-siddur-kol-hanoar
Posted on: 2017/04/25 - 3:06pm
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Incubator Session 4: Jewish Megatrends
On April 6, 2017, the fourth in a series of six sessions of the Reconstructionist Learning Networks Innovators Incubator took place. In this session, guest facilitator Rabbi Sid Schwarz guided a discussion on “Jewish Megatrends: Priming the Pump of Jewish Innovation.” Below are highlights from the session, with links to resources discussed.
How Can “Old” and “New” Jewish Organizations Learn from Each Other?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/incubator-session-4-jewish-megatrends
Posted on: 2017/04/20 - 6:38pm
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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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Fundraising Through Grants
This is a small but growing collection of resources on fundraising and grantwriting. It is based on a workshop handout compiled by Sharon Schwartz, education director at Kehilat HaNahar.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/fundraising-through-grants
Posted on: 2017/04/19 - 5:38pm
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The Halakhic Basis for Community Financing of Jewish Life
This article summarizes a wealth of information found in With All Your Possessions: Jewish Ethics and Economic Life, by Meir Tamari.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/halakhic-basis-community-financing-jewish-life
Posted on: 2010/01/01 - 12:00am
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Organizing Money: Capital Campaigns and Fundraising
The terms “Organizing Money” and “The Torah of Money” were coined by Jeffrey Dekro, formerly the president of The Shefa Fund (now Bend the Arc) and a member of Reconstructionist synagogue Mishkan Shalom in Philadelphia. It reflects the concept that asking people for money is optimally about bringing them more deeply into communal relationship.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/organizing-money-capital-campaigns-and-fundraising
Posted on: 2010/01/01 - 12:00am
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Budgets: Living Our Values in a Financial Plan
A budget is an implementation document, a part of an overall plan. It is a plan expressed in monetary terms that help define financial questions and answers within the diverse mix of a community.
We create budgets for the same reason we create other plans - so that the use of our limited resources will be consonant with our values and priorities. In the final analysis there may never be enough resources for everything we want to do- but there can be increased financial capacity to realize our mission.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/budgets-living-our-values-financial-plan
Posted on: 2010/01/01 - 12:00am
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Four Children Count the Omer
The following classroom activity relates the Counting of the Omer to the Four Children of the Passover seder.
Wise Child: What are the directions, the laws, and the rules that our Torah teaches us about counting the Omer?
We are taught, in Leviticus 23: 15-17:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/four-children-count-omer
Posted on: 2017/04/19 - 1:59pm
