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Inclusion and Disabilities: Hebrew and English Texts
For Jewish Disabilities Awareness month in February of 2014, Rabbi Michelle Greenfield, RRC ’12 examined the Torah readings found that month with an eye toward issues of inclusion and disability. She also included “Some Biblical and Rabbinic Sources on Disability: An Honest Look,” in which she examines the use and misuse of Hebrew texts that are often quoted when talking about inclusion of people with different abilities. Her English commentary provides a deeper understanding of these texts' strengths and limitations.
Posted on: 2016/04/18 - 4:03pm
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Vayigash Study Sheet
A study sheet on Parashat Vayigash on the reconciliations/re-encounters between Joseph and his brothers, and between Joseph and Jacob.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/complexities-reconciliation-joseph-his-brothers
Posted on: 2016/11/17 - 2:35pm
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Vayeshev Text Study on "The Man" - Toba Spitzer
A text study sheet prepared by Rabbi Toba Spitzer on the mysterious “man” found in Parshat Vayeshev.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/man-mystery-parashat-vayeshev
Posted on: 2016/11/17 - 1:46pm
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Light of Chanukah text study
Sources, ancient and modern, on the nature of the light of Hanukkah. Assembled by Rabbi Toba Spitzer.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/what-light-hanukkah
Posted on: 2016/11/17 - 2:39pm
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Evolution of Hanukkah text study
A text study on the evolution of Hanukkah. What is the miracle, and what is the light?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/evolution-hanukkah
Posted on: 2016/11/17 - 2:42pm
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Israel in Our Lives: Life-Long Learning About the Land of Israel
This is a curriculum for Israel education, from early childhood through adulthood. The author encourages people of all ages to connect to the land of Israel through language, liturgy, song, trips and relationships.
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 12:59pm
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Being Part of the Universe
Let us begin by remembering that the spiritual always points toward the unity of things, not their division. Judaism tries to help us to work from a higher perspective. To celebrate the creation of the world, as we do on Rosh Hashanah, is to see ourselves as an integral part of all that is and not to see ourselves as the measure of all things. The egotistical, self-centered part of our mind, “the evil urge” if you will, always leads us to experience our separateness from the natural world.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/being-part-universe
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 12:54pm
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What's God Have to Do With It?
A High Holiday Sermon delivered by by Rabbi Sid Schwarz at Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, Bethesda, MD
Yom Kippur 2007Some of you will remember the old Art Linkletter show. His signature piece on the show was his interviews with children which he later compiled in a book called Kids Say the Darndest Things. I thought of this when I recently picked up a book entitled, Children’s Letters to God. Here are a few excerpts:
“Dear God:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/sermon/whats-god-have-do-it
Posted on: 2016/05/06 - 10:32am
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Mishnah Impossible
This is a hands-on, team activity for the week before Sukkot that allows students to build sukkot according to instructions given in the Mishnah.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/mishnah-impossible
Posted on: 2016/05/05 - 5:28pm
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Zionism and Communal Covenant
In 2004, the JRF Israel Policies Task Force issued a report calling for a recommitment to Zionism. This excerpt from that report explores Kaplan's definition of “New Zionism.” It also discusses how a communal covenant could strengthen the relationships among the Reconstructionist community, Israel and the broader Jewish community.
Posted on: 2016/05/05 - 2:47pm
