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Posted on: 2021/04/23 - 10:05am

National Jewish Organizational Letter to Congress in Support of AAPI Communities

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/national-jewish-organizational-letter-congress-support-aapi-communities

Posted on: 2021/03/25 - 6:06pm

Letter Supporting the For The People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1)

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/endorsement/letter-supporting-people-act-hr-1s1

Posted on: 2021/03/23 - 2:19pm

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

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.

https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/amalek-out-there-or-here-text-study-shabbat-zakhor

Posted on: 2021/02/19 - 10:20am

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