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Notes from the Border

Rabbi Deborah Waxman, President of Reconstructing Judaism, sets the Jewish spiritual context for the HIAS-ADL delegation's visit to Tijuana during the bus ride from San Diego.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/notes-border

Posted on: 2018/08/27 - 3:31pm

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

Joint Statement on Immigration

The leadership of Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association condemn with horror the travesty that has become our immigration system under the administration of U.S. President Donald J. Trump. The “zero tolerance” policy that first saw young children ripped away from their parents as they attempted to seek asylum and safety in the United States—and now is holding families locked up in detention—is immoral and a disgrace to the American and Jewish values we hold dear.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/joint-statement-immigration

Posted on: 2018/06/27 - 4:44am

RRA in the Poor People's Campaign

Photo of RRA members protesting with the Poor People's Campaign

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/poor-peoples-campaign-national-call-moral-revival

Posted on: 2018/07/02 - 10:24am

July Leadership Column

I frequently describe myself as an evangelist for progressive religion. I spend much of my time making the case for why folks should belong. Why belong to any religion? Why belong to the Jewish people? Why belong to a synagogue? Why belong to the Reconstructionist movement?

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/drawing-comfort-community

Posted on: 2018/07/02 - 9:57am

Keeping Judaism Alive Behind Prison Walls

In loyalty, you sustain the living, nurturing the life of everything, healing the sick, freeing the captive.

Jessica Rosenberg, a senior at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in suburban Philadelphia, has often been inspired and troubled by these words of gratitude in the daily morning prayers. What does it mean that God frees the captive and heals the sick, knowing some people never achieve freedom or recover from certain illnesses? Does it mean that God only delivers some people and not others? Or should the words be interpreted metaphorically?

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/keeping-judaism-alive-behind-prison-walls

Posted on: 2018/02/28 - 10:00am