Haggadat Ha’Atzmaut: A Picnic Celebration of Yom Ha’Atzmaut

In this moving reflection, Rabbi Deborah Waxman shares her transformative experience on a service-learning trip to Israel with Yahel and Repair the World. Amid the complexities of a region in conflict, she discovers how hands-on service work—from weeding at a therapeutic farm for veterans to packing food for Bedouin villages—opens pathways to hope, agency and renewal when mere words and meetings cannot.

Reconstructing Judaism & The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association have joined five other Jewish organizations in urging Senators to oppose the confirmation of Governor Mike Huckabee as United States Ambassador to Israel. The coalition expressed deep concerns that Governor Huckabee’s views on Israel and Palestine are out of step with the majority of Jewish Americans and could […]

If I have the opportunity to be a delegate, I come into it with a sense of urgency. The Jewish people need to build an Israel that is democratic and sustainable and can continue to be a homeland for the Jewish people for generations to come.