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DT Vaykhi Lewis Eron - The Goal of Life
(Want to learn more about Jewish views on purpose and meaning? Visit Reconstructionism - Believing.)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/goal-life
Posted on: 2017/01/30 - 1:18pm
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The destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah - DT Vayera
(Want to learn more about Jewish views on morality? Visit Ethics and Values.)
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/destruction-cities-sodom-and-gomorrah
Posted on: 2017/01/31 - 3:43pm
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Letter Opposing Rollback of Predatory Lending Protections
Posted on: 2019/05/17 - 4:56pm
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Statement Supporting Equality Act
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/statement-supporting-equality-act
Posted on: 2019/05/17 - 1:49pm
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Letter to New York Times Regarding Antisemitic Cartoon
Reconstructing Judaism was a signatory to a letter that the the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) sent to the New York Times Executive Editor condemning the Antisemitic cartoon published on April 25, 2019. JCPA, an umbrella organization of the Jewish community relations field, issued the letter signed by 54 local Jewish Community Relations Councils, 14 National member agencies, and 13 other organizations. The letter urged the New York Times to take tangible steps to ensure that such inflammatory material will not be published in the future.
Posted on: 2019/05/03 - 12:16am
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Letter to Tennessee Legislation on Child Welfare
Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association were signatories to a letter objecting to the Tennessee legislature’s proposed legislation that would allow federally funded foster care and adoption agencies to use religious freedom to justify taxpayer-funded religious discrimination.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/letter-tennessee-legislation-child-welfare
Posted on: 2019/04/29 - 2:53pm
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Letter Opposing Repeal of Johnson Amendment (April 2019)
(Updated in April 2019 to reflect the final version of the letter.)
Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association were among 131 organizations sending a letter to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committes, urging them not to repeal or weaken the “Johnson Amendment” that currently ensures that tax-exempt organizations do not support or oppose candidates for political office. The text of the letter is included as a PDF above, and reproduced below. (Footnotes are found only in the PDF version)
Posted on: 2019/02/06 - 3:38pm
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Turning Memory Into Empathy: The Torah's Ethical Charge
One of the Torah’s central projects is to turn memory into empathy and moral responsibility. Appealing to our experience of defenselessness in Egypt, the Torah seeks to transform us into people who see those who are vulnerable and exposed rather than looking past them.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/turning-memory-empathy-torahs-ethical-charge
Posted on: 2017/08/16 - 4:05pm
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DT Naso Toba Spitzer
(Originally published in Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible)
A number of years ago, Pride Weekend in Boston fell on the Shabbat of Parshat Naso. Preparing my d’var Torah for Shabbat morning services that week, I wondered, what might this portion have to teach about GLBT pride?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/impurity-blessing
Posted on: 2016/11/17 - 1:34pm
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Honest Weights and Measures DT Eron
Once, during the holy season of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Hasidic master Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev, paused in his devotions and looking at his disciples with sad, tear-laden eyes, remarked, “What a funny world it is that we live in these days. There was a time, you know, when Jews would be scrupulously honest in the market place and be the most outrageous liars in the synagogue. These days, however, everything is reversed. The Jews are surprisingly honest in synagogue, but in the streets and market places, I’m ashamed to tell you.”
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/honest-weights-and-measures
Posted on: 2017/08/17 - 1:17pm
