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Congregational Safety Resources
In the months since the October 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack, we have been sharing resources with Reconstructionist communities that address questions of how to make our synagogues safer while also upholding Jewish values of racial justice, interfaith community building, and equity. This page gathers together what we’ve shared so far with our educators, executive directors and presidents.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/synagogue-safety-security-and-values-resources
Posted on: 2019/04/29 - 1:45pm
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Israeli-Palestinian History from a Progressive Zionist Perspective
This 3-part online class is based on a slideshow with the instructor, Rabbi Maurice Harris, narrating, followed by some Q and A with members of Or Haneshamah (Ottawa, ON, Canada).
Posted on: 2021/07/13 - 12:45pm
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2021 Auerbach Grant Recipients
Reconstructing Judaism’s Auerbach Launch Grants and Ignition Grants support rabbinical students and rabbis in reconstructing the Jewish landscape to be more inclusive and engaging. This year’s winners point the way to a dynamic Jewish future.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/2021-auerbach-launch-and-ignition-grant-recipients
Posted on: 2021/07/13 - 10:56am
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Reconstructing Judaism Over the Next Five Years
by Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., and Seth Rosen
In March 2021, the board of governors unanimously adopted a five-year strategic plan for Reconstructing Judaism. The new strategic plan reaffirms our longstanding commitments, transforms our ideological interest in innovation into strategy, and charts new paths forward around engagement of individuals and communities through both in-person and online platforms.
The plan identifies five key goals, equal in importance:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/reconstructing-judaism-over-next-five-years
Posted on: 2021/06/16 - 2:02pm
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Akharey Mot-Kedoshim d'var Torah - Yael Ridberg - 2021 week of George Floyd murder trial
[Originally posted at Times of Israel on 4/22/2021]
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/mighty-waters-justice-love
Posted on: 2021/04/23 - 10:05am
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Virtual Day of Learning 2021 - God?: A Reconstructionist Conversation
Posted on: 2021/03/01 - 12:29pm
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Global Day of Jewish Learning 2020
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/global-day-jewish-learning-2020
Posted on: 2021/03/01 - 12:03pm
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Tetzaveh / Purim 2021 - Yael Ridberg
Purim 2020 was the last in-person event celebrated by many Jewish communities around the country before the COVID-19 shutdown. Little did we understand that the essential psychological principle of Purim of hafichut – the reversibility of our world – would come to mean something even more profound than what we had come to expect.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/righting-world-turned-upside-down
Posted on: 2021/02/26 - 12:28pm
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Zakhor text study - Amalek - Out There or In Here?
The Shabbat before the holiday of Purim is known as Shabbat Zakhor (“Remember!”). We read an additional Torah passage (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) recalling Amalek, a genocidal enemy from our distant past who is both the spiritual and physical ancestor of Haman, the villain of the Purim story.
Posted on: 2021/02/19 - 10:20am
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Parshat Bo 2021: The Rituals of Democracy - Yael Ridberg
(Written for Shabbat Bo, January 22, 2021, and originally published at The Times of Israel as “The Rituals of American Democracy” Used with kind permission.)
Wednesday morning, I settled in to watch the inaugural events unfold. I was filled with anticipation and relief that the last four years were over, and a new era was about to begin. I was transfixed watching the guests arrive at the Capitol only two weeks after the temple of democracy was overrun by a seditious mob.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/rituals-democracy
Posted on: 2021/01/22 - 9:36am