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Statement on Terror Attack at Entrance to Temple Mount

RRC/Jewish Reconstructionist Communities and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association express our condemnation of today’s terror attack at the entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. We mourn the loss of the lives of the two Israeli Border Police officers who were shot and killed, Advanced Staff Sgt. Maj. Hael Sathawi and Advanced Staff Sgt. Maj. Kamil Shanan. May their memories be a blessing and may all who mourn find comfort.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/statement-terror-attack-entrance-temple-mount

Posted on: 2017/07/14 - 4:25pm

Forward article promo - Interfaith couple finding home at synagogue

In an article in the Forward, Debbie Karl, a member of Reconstructionist Congregation Or Hadash, recounts the ways in which her interfaith family was welcomed into Jewish life.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/how-one-interfaith-family-found-home-synagogue

Posted on: 2017/07/21 - 2:29pm

Israel statement 7/24/17

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/statement-july-violence-israel

Posted on: 2017/07/25 - 3:00am

MJL Interview with Rabbi Toba Spitzer

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/interview-rabbi-toba-spitzer

Posted on: 2017/07/26 - 11:38am

Embracing Our Sorrows

Tisha B’Av (The Ninth Day of Av) is a 24-hour fast that is observed this week. Traditionally, it is a big deal. It is the only 24-hour fast on the Jewish calendar besides Yom Kippur. Jews commemorate the destruction of the Second Jerusalem Temple in 70 C.E. and many other calamitous events that have occurred throughout our history.

Why do we harp on sorrowful events that occurred so many centuries ago? It is a legitimate question.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/embracing-our-sorrows

Posted on: 2017/07/31 - 1:22pm

Pacfic Northwest Shabbaton Writeup

At the bucolic Camp Solomon Schechter outside Olympia, Wash., roughly 120 people, both adults and children, experienced Jewish community at its most inspiring. By joining together in a current climate where individuals have fallen away from communal activities and commitments—described by Robert D.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/pnw-shabbaton-2017

Posted on: 2017/08/08 - 10:28am

Statement on Charlottesville

The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities condemns in the strongest terms the white supremacist groups that gathered in Charlottesville, VA, over the weekend to promote racism, anti-Semitism, and other ideologies of bigotry. Our hearts go out to the family of Heather Heyer, the anti-hate demonstrator who was killed in what has been accurately characterized by the U.S.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/charlottesville-response

Posted on: 2017/08/14 - 2:35pm