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Reconstructionism, Chosenness, and the Abrahamic Dialogue
The first time I encountered the idea that Jews were a “chosen people,” I learned that this was a mistaken and even pernicious belief that was held by other Jews. The rejection of chosenness made sense to me then as a 12 year old preparing for her bat mitzvah in a Reconstructionist congregation. It has continued to make sense to me over the years, for all the reasons that Rabbi Deborah Waxman so eloquently lays out in her article, “Rejecting Chosenness in Favor of Distinctiveness.”
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 11:44am
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Rejecting Chosenness in Favor of Distinctiveness
In what sense and to what extent do Jews still believe ourselves to be “chosen”?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/rejecting-chosenness-favor-distinctiveness
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 11:48am
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Building an Ark: On the Search for an Authentic Jewish Relationship to the Arts
I’m a workin’ on a building
I’m a workin’ on a building
I’m a workin’ on a building
For my Lord, for my LordTraditional
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 12:10pm
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Judaism as a Generation
Readers of Mordecai Kaplan, and those familiar with Reconstructionist thinking, will recognize the playfulness of this essay’s title. Kaplan’s pioneering work, Judaism as a Civilization, challenged American Jews to think creatively and courageously about Jewish life; he wrote about a people bound together not just by shared ritual observance, but by music, art, intellectual engagement, and a joyful sense of purpose. Kaplan’s central argument was that Jewish civilization has never been static, but has always been dynamic.
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 12:26pm
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Building a Personal Relationship with a Nonpersonal God
They envisioned you in an abundance of metaphors.
You are one in all of those images.
–Shir Hakavod (12th-century Germany)1https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/building-personal-relationship-nonpersonal-god
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 12:43pm
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Reconstructing Yiddishkeit
Among recent attempts to define “Jewish authenticity,” I find one characterization of its absence most intriguing. In an essay titled “The Imaginary Jew” that appeared in The Nation three years ago, literary critic William Deresiewicz analyzed the failure of contemporary Jewish fiction to produce hard-nosed explorations of the present, and noted its tendency to rely instead on whimsical exoticism. This, he claimed, could be contextualized as part of a larger social trend.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/reconstructing-yiddishkeit
Posted on: 2016/05/13 - 1:05pm