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How to Build Just and Holy Congregations
Although to every individual the achievement of personal salvation is his supreme quest and responsibility, it is unattainable without devotion to the task of social salvation.–Mordecai M. Kaplan, The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/how-build-just-and-holy-congregations
Posted on: 2016/05/12 - 1:34pm
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The Wealth Gap: How We Chose This Issue
Our Tikkun Olam Commission developed a set of criteria to guide its social justice recommendations for the movement. Every couple of years, the Commission will advise that the Reconstructionist movement concentrate on a new issue which, on balance, best meets these criteria.
Here’s how the wealth gap meets the criteria we’ve set for a movement-wide focus:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/wealth-gap-how-we-chose-issue
Posted on: 2016/04/19 - 2:34pm
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Political Activism as a Form of Prayer
Reflecting on the rituals and higher purpose of protest.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/political-activism-form-prayer
Posted on: 2016/04/13 - 1:55pm
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Recon Torah March 2015
“…Your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground!” (Genesis 4:10)
What is the cry of John Lewis’s blood, spilled on the Edmond Pettus Bridge 50 years ago? Or, the blood of the many other people killed or beaten in the struggle for civil rights in America?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/his-blood-cries-out-faith-and-love
Posted on: 2015/03/09 - 12:00am
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Yizkor Prayer for Righteous Gentiles
In the early part of 1939, my father, mother and infant brother were living in Paris, as refugees from the pogroms in Romania. They were illegal immigrants, living modestly with the hope of giving themselves and their son a better future than the one they had. But World War II was approaching, and the citizens of France were in danger of falling prey to the Vichy regime that was collaborating with Germany and Hitler. As Jews and illegal residents, my parents were in an extremely precarious situation. They were poor and had no connections or reasonable way of changing their situation.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/yizkor-prayer-righteous-gentiles
Posted on: 2016/09/29 - 12:45pm
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Tikkun Olam: Our Current Focus
The Reconstructionist movement has helped define the vanguard of social justice in the Jewish community, advancing causes from equality for women and the LGBT community, to interfaith dialogue.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/tikkun-olam-our-current-focus
Posted on: 2020/01/15 - 11:00am
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About the Wealth Gap
Justice Further Deferred
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/about-wealth-gap
Posted on: 2016/04/19 - 2:43pm
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Fair Trade Shabbat Dinner 2018
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Fred Dobb Eco-Judaism session - Global Day 2016
“Love of the Creator, and love of that which G!d has created, are finally one and the same,” wrote Martin Buber. Defending this divine creation in an era of climate change is a Jewish (and social, political, and moral) imperative. A rich Jewish life is by nature an environmental one, though we need to pick up the pace, draw more explicit connections, and make our community a beacon of sustainability.
Posted on: 2016/11/21 - 1:20am
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Jews of Color and Allies Advisory Group Mandate
Background and objectives:
WHEREAS Jews of Color (JOC) comprise at least 12-15 percent of the American Jewish community yet are often marginalized and discriminated against in mainstream Jewish settings, Reconstructing Judaism must take further action to ensure that our Jewish communities provide a safe, supportive, loving and empowering haven for all of us, most especially Jews of Color.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/jews-color-and-allies-advisory-group-mandate
Posted on: 2020/10/12 - 1:43pm
