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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,
Posted on: 2022/03/22 - 11:29am
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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.
Posted on: 2022/01/16 - 12:50pm
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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.
Posted on: 2021/01/07 - 7:36pm
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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
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Standing Up for Racial Justice and Against Racial Violence
Posted on: 2020/06/02 - 4:06pm
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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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Spirit in Practice news
Posted on: 2017/01/18 - 11:18am
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Jewish Values and Journalistic Ethics - Video and Transcript
It is a fascinating time in the world of journalism right now; some might say unprecedented. With fake news proliferating and an antagonistic relationship between the White House and the press, the role of the media and factual reporting has never seemed more urgent. Can Jewish values inform the practice of journalism and journalistic ethics? Check out this conversation between Rabbi David A.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/video/judaism-and-journalistic-ethics-video-transcript
Posted on: 2017/03/30 - 12:49am
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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
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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