Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Texts for a Jewish Resistance Movement

In 2022, Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association signed on as a founding partner to the Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition, along with twenty other national and international umbrella organizations of Jewish life.

The Reconstructionist movement has adopted a Resolution on Reparations, making a commitment to “supporting and advocating for institutional, local and federal legislation and policies that specifically address the need for reparations.”

The resolution is a call for communal and national teshuvah, an opportunity for repentance, utilizing a Jewish framework to speak with moral authority on an issue of profound importance to American society and global efforts for justice.

Major Jewish organizations are coming together to launch the Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition, a coalition of Jewish community organizations who recognize the existential threat and moral urgency of climate change and are committed to taking action.