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America's First Bat Mitzvah podcast promo
Many Jews have heard that the first bat mitzvah celebration took place in 1922 in a Reconstructionist congregation — and that the first girl to become a bat mitzvah was Judith Kaplan, daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism. Much less familiar are the historical factors leading to that moment, or why it took several more decades before the bat mitzvah as we know it to take root.
Posted on: 2021/05/27 - 10:35am
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NPR Story - Antisemitism after Gaza
In the wake of the recent armed hostilities between Israel and Gaza, American Jews have increasingly experienced antisemitic harassment and violence. In a recent NPR story, “Antisemitism Spikes, And Many Jews Wonder: ‘Where Are Our Allies?’”, Rabbi Sandra Lawson recounts her experience being targeted on social media:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/npr-story-rising-antisemitism-and-role-allies
Posted on: 2021/06/07 - 10:05am
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Reconstructing Judaism Over the Next Five Years
by Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., and Seth Rosen
In March 2021, the board of governors unanimously adopted a five-year strategic plan for Reconstructing Judaism. The new strategic plan reaffirms our longstanding commitments, transforms our ideological interest in innovation into strategy, and charts new paths forward around engagement of individuals and communities through both in-person and online platforms.
The plan identifies five key goals, equal in importance:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/reconstructing-judaism-over-next-five-years
Posted on: 2021/06/16 - 2:02pm
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Reconstructing Judaism Adopts Commitments on Racial Justice - News Item
The Reconstructionist movement’s Jews of Color and Allies Advisory Group recently made a set of recommendations about how to racially diversify and advance anti-racism in the Reconstructionist movement, including at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Camp Havaya, and how to center and celebrate the voices and experiences of BIPOC (Black, indigenous and people of color) in the Reconstructionist movement.
Posted on: 2021/06/15 - 12:00am
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Statement on the No Fear Rally
Although Reconstructing Judaism has not been asked to participate in the No Fear rally, and has therefore had no opportunity to participate in its messaging or planning, we endorse it in principle because we are firmly opposed to antisemitism and, in our efforts to foster engaged and substantive Jewish life and in our tikkun olam and public square work, we act continuously to counter it. We believe that antisemitism is a scourge that must be forcefully denounced.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/statement-no-fear-rally
Posted on: 2021/07/09 - 12:31pm
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Amanda Mbuvi Announcement
Posted on: 2021/06/16 - 3:30pm
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Creating Radically Welcoming Communities
On June 30, 2021, Rabbi Sandra Lawson (she/her) led a racial justice workshop called Creating Radically Welcoming Communities. This workshop was part of a series of racial justice workshops called Looking within for Communical Change, organized and produced by Philadelphia’s Center City Kehillah. Reconstructing Judaism proudly co-sponsored Rabbi Lawson’s workshop with the Jewish Federation of Philadelphia and the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/creating-radically-welcoming-communities
Posted on: 2021/07/19 - 2:55pm
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Prayer for the State of Israel
TEFILAH LIMDINAT YISRA’EL / PRAYER FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL
From Kol Haneshamah: Shabbat Vehagim, the Shabbat and Festival siddur of the Reconstructionist Movementhttps://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/prayer-state-israel
Posted on: 2016/04/15 - 1:05pm
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Making Seder and Kiddush more inclusive
One of the small but significant innovations of the Reconstructionist haggadah, “A Night of Questions,” was the rubric “wine or grape juice” that appears before each of the traditional four cups of the Seder as well as in the Introduction of how to prepare for Pesach.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/making-seder-and-kiddush-more-inclusive
Posted on: 2016/04/18 - 3:51pm
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Judaism on the Cutting Edge
The only surprise about my decision to become a rabbi was my choice of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Everything about my activities and commitments throughout my life made this seem logical to the people who knew and loved me—except that I had been raised in another movement. For me, however, I was either going to RRC or choosing a different career.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/judaism-cutting-edge
Posted on: 2016/05/05 - 11:29am
