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Fall Holiday Glossary
This file contains a helpful glossary of terms for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. It begins with a letter to parents suggesting themes to think about during the holiday season.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/fall-holiday-glossary
Posted on: 2016/04/15 - 2:00pm
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Tzedakah and the Jewish Holidays
(With thanks to the Shefa Fund - whose successor organization, Jewish Funds for Justice, has become part of Bend The Arc - for the idea for this piece.)
For centuries, giving to tzedakah has been a traditional way to mark Jewish holidays. But all holidays are not created equal. In this resource, we offer connections between the theme of each holiday or season, and some possible giving opportunities that correspond with it.
Rosh Hashanah
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/tzedakah-and-jewish-holidays-giving-social-change
Posted on: 2016/04/20 - 2:27pm
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Kaplan and the Meaning of Ritual
Even for those of us who are skeptical about God's role in human history, Jewish ritual can be sacred and holy. I was in Israel not long ago on a UJA Young Leadership Mission. During a morning meeting with our Israeli peers, we turned to the subject of Jewish ritual.
Posted on: 2017/01/04 - 4:20pm
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Book Club 10/20/17 First Session
I think there’s an appetite to know. I think there’s an incredible hunger to understand…We have to embrace ignorance because it is a permanent state in Jewish learning. You will never master it. But instead of feeling frustrated, we can feel energized by that.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/bookclubfirstsession
Posted on: 2017/11/10 - 1:09pm
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Reconstructing for Tomorrow 11/7/17 First Session
There’s been a tension throughout our history between understanding Reconstructionism as an approach to being Jewish, a set of questions, a set of processes, a set of conversations. Reconstructionism as an organizational structure embodies those questions, those processes, those conversations.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/reconstructingfortomorrowfirstsession
Posted on: 2017/11/10 - 3:38pm
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Book Club Session 2 11/13/17
The open tent, the figuring out how to welcome those whom others don’t welcome, is the essence of Judaism. To cease to be the oppressor.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/bookclubsecondsession
Posted on: 2017/11/14 - 12:08pm
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Book Club Third Session 11/27/17
What is my “Elijah moment?” How do I take care of myself, take care of the people I work with, and continue my activism?
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/bookclubthirdsession
Posted on: 2017/11/28 - 2:46pm
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Guide to Jewish Practice - Educators' Manual
This manual, written by Rabbi Nathan Weiner, will help you use all three volumes of A Guide to Jewish Practice to boost your adult and teen education programming in meaningful ways. It offers flexible formats that are simple to navigate and the pedagogical approach is rooted in values-based decision making.
Potential uses include:
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/document/guide-jewish-practice-educators-manual
Posted on: 2018/04/23 - 12:32pm
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Lost and Found: Personal Reflections at the High Holidays
by Cyd Weissman
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/lost-and-found-personal-reflections-high-holidays
Posted on: 2020/10/01 - 10:22am
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Ritualwell’s ADVOT Creates Poetic Community
This article was originally published in the Jewish Exponent by Sasha Rogelberg.
Before Ritualwell was a website containing more than 2,200 liturgy and rituals crowdsourced by Jews, it was an idea of where to put dozens of scraps of paper in the drawers of offices in the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Kolot: Center for Jewish Women’s and Gender Studies in Wyncote.
https://archive.reconstructingjudaism.org/news/ritualwells-advot-creates-poetic-community
Posted on: 2021/10/28 - 4:53pm
