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Dialogue Episode 1 Transcript
This is a transcript of theDialogue Podcast, Episode 1: New Jewish Spaces, an interview with Rabbi Shira Stutman.
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https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/transcript-dialogue-podcast-episode-1
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 1:37pm
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Dialogue Episode 2 Transcript
This is a transcript of the Dialogue Podcast, Episode 2: Acting Sustainably, an interview with Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb.
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https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/transcript-dialogue-podcast-episode-2
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 1:49pm
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A History of Reconstructionist Zionism
In preparing this essay, I had the opportunity to read books, editorials and articles from an 80-year span of Reconstructionist history.[1] This wide-ranging array of material reflects a striking uniformity in Reconstructionist positions on Zionism. From the movement’s outset, every intellectual leader has been a committed Zionist loyal to the same principles. Their responses to changing political situations have been quite predictable based on their earlier positions.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/history-reconstructionist-zionism
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 2:27pm
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On Occupied Ground
“It’s the occupation, stupid.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/occupied-ground
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 2:30pm
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Finding a New Narrative
One of my favorite book titles, by writer and political activist Jim Hightower, is There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos. This is a credo to which I generally adhere. I prefer a principled ideological stance based clearly on one's values and analysis of the given situation than a nebulous striving to find “the center.” As it turns out, my values and analysis usually put me squarely in the progressive camp on most political issues.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/finding-new-narrative
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 2:31pm
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Values, Middle East Politics and the Future of Israel
Values and Principles
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/values-middle-east-politics-and-future-israel
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 2:43pm
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Where Next Israel article
With the recent restructuring of the Reconstructionist movement comes a renewed commitment to providing a clear voice on issues regarding our collective relationship to Zionism and to the Jewish State. In 2004, the movement’s Israel Policies Task Force produced a superb and comprehensive report. This 53-page document, available as a PDF here, emerged from a movement-wide process that solicited thoughtful input from Reconstructionists across the country.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/where-next
Posted on: 2016/05/04 - 2:46pm
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Sometimes You Have to Close Your Eyes and Leap
As a child I was never much of a risk taker. I was so afraid of the water that I didn’t even learn to swim until I was nearly a teenager. I was also definitely an introvert as a child: while I did have a few good friends, I was never really comfortable with most group activities. Other than music and a passion to learn drums and percussion, my favorite pastimes were either reading by myself (I still follow my regimen of reading at least 50 books every year), or hanging out at my synagogue, where I always felt comfortable, at home, and safe.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/sometimes-you-have-close-your-eyes-and-leap
Posted on: 2016/05/05 - 11:30am
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Reconstructionist Chutzpah
Chabad shluchim, Beat poets, stoner Kabbalah artists, Walt Whitman, Rebbe Nachman, Mizrahi social activists: each of these occupy a place in my constellation of influences, waning and waxing in potency. I revere them and I synthesize many of their characteristics and techniques in my work.
Mordecai Kaplan is not on this list, nor are other “Reconstructionist” spiritual leaders. So am I a Reconstructionist rabbi? What does it mean to be Reconstructionist?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/reconstructionist-chutzpah-spirit-provocation
Posted on: 2016/05/05 - 11:32am
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Where Prayer Meets Justice
In September, 2011, T’ruah, the organization I lead, brought seventeen rabbis to Immokalee, FL to visit workers in the tomato fields, not long ago considered ground zero for modern-day slavery in the United States. For two days, we sat with members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, farmworkers who have organized themselves into one of the most effective workers’ groups in the country.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/where-prayer-meets-justice
Posted on: 2016/05/05 - 11:59am
