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  1. Reconstructing Judaism Joins More than 375 Interfaith Groups Urging Biden to Expedite Refugee Efforts

    Following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s March 16 speech to Congress, more than 375 Jewish and other faith-based groups and organizations urged President Joe Biden to take immediate steps to welcome refugees from Ukraine. Jewish Federations of North America spearheaded the March 18 letter. Click here to view the PDF of the letter and see the full list of organizations that signed on. 

    Dear President Biden,

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/reconstructing-judaism-joins-more-375-interfaith-groups-urging-biden-expedite-refugee-efforts

    Posted on: 2022/03/22 - 11:29am

  2. Reconstructing Judaism Statement

    ברוך אתה ה’ אלוהינו חי העולמים מתיר אסורים.

    Barukh atah adonay eloheynu hay ha’olamim matir asurim.

    Blessed are you, THE REDEEMER, our God, Life of all the worlds, who frees the captives.

    – From the morning liturgy

    What a terrible irony that on Shabbat Shirah, as Jews around the world read about the Israelites’ liberation from slavery, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three other people were held hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas in a standoff that lasted more than 11 hours. 

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/choosing-life-reconstructionist-response-events-colleyville-texas

    Posted on: 2022/01/16 - 12:50pm

  3. We Must Work to Ensure that the January 6th Insurrection Will Not Disrupt American Democracy

    Reconstructionist Jews embrace living in both Jewish civilization and secular society. At the nexus of the Jewish and American civilizations is a wholehearted embrace of democracy. For us, democracy translates into practice the core principle of betzelem Elohim, the recognition that every individual is created in the image of God. Democracy advances millennia of Jewish experiments in self-governance, while also allowing deep and meaningful engagement with other ethnic and religious groups and full participation in broader society.

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/we-must-work-ensure-january-6th-insurrection-will-not-disrupt-american-democracy

    Posted on: 2021/01/07 - 7:36pm

  4. Statement on Election - Tues Nov 4 2020

    Updated on November 9, 2020:

    Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stand for many of the values and are committed to many of the programs that Reconstructionist Jews champion. We have much work to do to heal our broken world. We stand ready to act in partnership with all people of goodwill.

     

    Original Statement (November 4, 2020)

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/counting-every-vote

    Posted on: 2020/11/09 - 11:00am

  5. Standing Up for Racial Justice and Against Racial Violence

  6. Deborah column on nationhood executive order

    This article was originally posted at the Times of Israel site. 

    When I first read about President Donald Trump’s proposed Executive Order that would effectively, if not explicitly, define the Jewish people as a nationality, I thought of someone, a fictional person actually, who harkens back to a very different time and place: Tevye, the tragicomic milkman at the center of Fiddler on the Roof, a masterpiece of popular culture. 

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/fiddler-on-the-roof-and-trumps-executive-order

    Posted on: 2019/12/13 - 11:13am

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  8. Reconstructing Pluralism through Conversation

    (This piece was originally published on the Times of Israel blog at this link.)

    Pluralism is dead. Long live pluralism.

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/reconstructing-pluralism-through-conversation

    Posted on: 2019/02/26 - 11:29am

  9. In Tragedy’s Wake, Dor Hadash Finds Strength in Jewish Community

    At Congregation Dor Hadash, life certainly hasn’t returned to normal. Perhaps, considering the full scope of the trauma endured and the losses suffered, “normal” isn’t possible or even desirable. Yet in the two months since a gunman claimed the life of one member, Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, and critically wounded another, Dan Leger, the community has settled into something approaching a “new normal,” according to Judith Yanowitz, Dor Hadash’s vice president for ritual.

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/dor-hadash-finds-strength

    Posted on: 2019/01/02 - 3:56pm

  10. American Values, Religious Voices

    Two Reconstructionist Rabbinical College faculty members are taking part in a powerful grassroots initiative titled “American Values Religious Voices: 100 Days. 100 Letters.” This national bipartisan campaign brings together 100 scholars from different religious traditions to articulate core American values that have grounded our nation in the past and should guide us forward at this time of political transition.

    https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/american-values-religious-voices

    Posted on: 2017/01/24 - 11:21am

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